The European Commission has adopted a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system and a Biodiversity Strategy to bring nature back into our lives. The strategies are mutually reinforcing, bringing together nature, fishers, farmers, business and consumers to jointly work towards a competitively sustainable future in line with the European Green Deal.
KINSHASA, 20 May 2020 – Over a quarter of a million people, the majority of them children, have fled intensifying violence in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year, UNICEF warned today. This is putting further pressure on already stretched humanitarian services in one of the poorest, most insecure and disease-stricken parts of the country.
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2020 — The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a $1 billion budget support operation for Kenya, which helps close the fiscal financing gap, while supporting reforms that help advance the government’s inclusive growth agenda, including in affordable housing and support to farmers’ incomes.
Turneffe Atoll, BELIZE - Natasha Gibson is a licensed scuba diver, tour guide, and more recently, coral reef conservationist. She and her colleagues at the Belizean non-profit Fragments of Hope are now researching and practicing various methods to replant more resilient types of coral that can be used to restore some of Belize’s reefs, which are suffering from rising sea temperatures, pollution, and habitat destruction.
ROME – Coronavirus may push an additional 10 million of the world’s children into acute malnutrition. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that the number of young children suffering from this life-threatening form of undernutrition could increase by 20 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moving towards a more healthy and sustainable EU food system, a corner stone of the European Green Deal and a new EU-wide Biodiversity Strategy.
DHAKA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working with the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education to distribute take-home food rations to nearly 3 million school children across Bangladesh who are missing out on their school meals due to school closures caused by the spread of the Coronavirus.
NAIROBI – The dire socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic may more than double the number of hungry people in East Africa and the Horn over the next three months, a report from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has found.
In Colombia, small-scale agricultural producers are confronted with substantial inequalities. As was to be expected, the advent of Covid has merely made matters worse, despite the steps taken by the government. An analysis by Nadine Andrieu, an agronomist with CIRAD on asssigment in Cali, Colombia.
By Dr. Stefanie Christman and Udo Rudiger.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have devastating impacts on people, with a disproportionate impact on the poor and the vulnerable, who are faced with job and income loss, uncertain food supply, and disruptions in health and education programs. The most vulnerable, including migrants, persons living with disabilities, women, the elderly, LGBTI, indigenous peoples, and other marginalized groups lack the coping mechanisms and essential services they need.
COVID-19 is threatening cities and communities across the globe in an unprecedented way, impacting not only public health but also the economy and social fabric. The global pandemic poses a great challenge to dense urban areas in the world, especially those with poor infrastructure and service delivery systems. Besides its impact on public health, the COVID-19 epidemic is generating multifaceted, and likely prolonged economic impacts, ranging from disrupted global supply chains to bankrupted small businesses, with significant job losses and impacts on livelihoods of people everywhere, and especially informal sector workers and those with irregular earnings and unstable jobs that have fewer safety nets to weather the crisis.
Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €250,000 contribution from France to provide essential food for the poorest and most food insecure non-refugee populations in the Gaza Strip.
More and more people struggle to have access to or enough food in fragile countries.
NEW DELHI, May 15, 2020 — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved $1 billion for the Accelerating India’s COVID-19 Social Protection Response Program to support India’s efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2020 — The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a $137.5 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to help Somalia respond to and recover from multiple, ongoing, and overlapping crises.
Dili, May 15, 2020 – Economic activity is forecast to contract by at least 5 percent in 2020, owing to renewed political uncertainty and the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a new World Bank report released today.
LA PAZ, May 14, 2020 – The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a loan and two credits (one of which is concessional) totaling US$254 million for the Plurinational State of Bolivia. This financing will be used to help the country fund temporary cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households with school-aged children, people with disabilities, elderly members and informal workers affected by the measures adopted to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Timothy Sulser and Shahnila Dunston.
New York, NY, May 14, 2020 — Refugees and people displaced by conflict and crisis are experiencing severe economic distress stemming from COVID-19, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warned today. A combination of rising costs of food as well as job and income losses are leading to a dire situation for the world’s most vulnerable.
