ALGIERS – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency; United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and five NGO partners urgently need US$ 15 million to respond to the public health needs and immediate humanitarian consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria.
The already dire food security situation in South Sudan could worsen with the adverse economic impacts of COVID-19, including a slowdown in the importation of basic commodities.
With the arrival of Covid-19 in Brazil, tens of millions of people living in poverty are again facing hunger. Despite emergency measures announced by the authorities, many of those people could feel the full force of the consequences of the crisis. Analysis by CIRAD's Stéphane Guéneau, public policy specialist, and Catia Grisa, researcher at the University of Rio Grande do Sul.
The potential impacts on already vulnerable groups are especially worrying, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where a large share of people are threatened by poverty and hunger.
ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering acute hunger, pushing it to more than a quarter of a billion by the end of 2020, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today as it and other partners released a new report on food crises around the world.
Statement to UN Security Council.
Regional body and UN agency join forces to minimize lockdown’s impact on continent where one in five goes hungry.
Contribution will help to scale up detection and containment of locusts.
FAO, IFAD, the World Bank and WFP on the occasion of the Extraordinary G20 Agriculture Minister's Meeting.
QU Dongyu says a coordinated response needed to address the drivers that perpetuate food crises.
Director-General speaks to G20 agriculture ministers on behalf of UN food agencies.
New report presents the main regional consequences caused by the five types of the climate pattern.
Multilateralism – the idea that together we are stronger, that a rules-based world will benefit people and stand up for the most vulnerable, no matter where they live – is under attack. In recent years, a range of players defying and opposing multilateralism as trade and security tensions have risen and important international agreements have lost support. The “me first” attitude has come to challenge the “us together” ethos.
The European Union has disbursed EUR 5 million (551 contos in national currency) in budget support to the National Treasury of Cabo Verde, supporting the country’s fight against COVID-19.
Join the dialogue with FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen on: COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains: How to respond?
Rome, 20 April 2020 - With the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown threatening the lives and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today committed US$40 million, and launched an urgent appeal for additional funds, to support farmers and rural communities to continue growing and selling food.
Contribution will help to scale up detection and containment of locusts.
Regional body and UN agency join forces to minimize lockdown’s impact on continent where one in five goes hungry.
Ministerial Statement on COVID-19.
An international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises.
