The National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention (SINAPRED) of Nicaragua, government institutions, the United Nations Emergency Technical Team (UNETE), participated in a Category 5 Hurricane simulation with the aim of strengthening the process of coordination and operations, combined with humanitarian assistance.

Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 ‘minimal’ or phase 2 ‘stressed’ conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.

Andrea Orozco, kindly nicknamed by her students as “Andreíta”, is the one responsible for the lunch time meals at Santa Marta School in the rural community of Guineo, which is located 280 kilometers east of Managua.

Andreíta assumed this position last year when her 5 year old son, Jason, began preschool. Since then she has not once failed to provide daily meals to the 234 students of this primary and preschool.

Cooking like their mothers’ would

FAO: inflación de los alimentos de la región alcanzó 1.3% en marzo

Inflación de marzo duplicó la de febrero debido a aumentos en las tasas de México, Venezuela, Chile, Perú y República Dominicana, señaló la FAO.

Santiago de Chile, 10 de mayo de 2013– La inflación mensual de los alimentos(*) de la región alcanzó 1.3 % en marzo, un nivel dos veces mayor que el del febrero, señaló hoy la FAO.

Talk of the Month: P4P and the Private Sector

In the LAC region, the implementation of the Purchase for Progress (P4P) strategy is based on tackling both the demand and supply sides of the staple-grain sector, combining market opportunities with a series of complementary interventions to build capabilities among farmers and their organizations.

From its inception, P4P in the region envisaged building sustainable business relationships between farmers’ organizations (FOs) and the private sector.

The Director of Plan International Michael Diamond and World Food Programme Representative Helmut W. Rauch signed an agreement for technical collaboration on nutrition and food security.

Through this agreement, both organisations will conduct work together on nutrition, education, and support of small farmers and on programmes to benefit the most vulnerable populations.

“We are very excited to make this agreement with WFP, through which we will deepen and expand the impact of the work of both organisations,” says Diamond.

By Humberto Jaime

PANAMA, 7 May 2013 - A senior official from the Philippines town of San Francisco, which won the 2011 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, has spent the last five days journeying across Central America to exchange information with local authorities on best practice to make urban settings safer from natural hazards.

Hoy por la mañana se efectuó el segundo desembolso del proyecto “Política Centroamericana de Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres: Hacia la Reducción del Impacto de los Desastres y su contribución al Desarrollo Seguro y Sostenible” financiado por la República de China (Taiwán).

El Director de Plan Internacional, Michael Diamond y el Representante del Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas (PMA) en Nicaragua, Helmut W. Rauch, firmaron un convenio marco de colaboración técnica en temas de seguridad alimentaria nutricional.

A través de este acuerdo, ambos organismos realizarán acciones conjuntas en nutrición, educación y apoyo a la pequeña producción, así como actividades en beneficio de los grupos más vulnerables de la población.