The 2013 The Status of Poverty and Food Security in Egypt: Analysis and Policy Recommendations report serves a follow-up to a previous report published in 2011.1 It analyses data from the 2011 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIECS) by Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), with a view to providing an in-depth picture of the food security situation and the vulnerability of households in Egypt, particularly subsequent to the 2011 revolution. The HIECS included data from 24,000 households collected by means of a household questionnaire.

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In Afghanistan, far more boys go to school than girls. WFP is trying to change that by providing food incentives for female students.

Char Dara is one of the most insecure districts in Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan. More than 27,000 children attend classes in the 51 operational schools in the area, but boys outnumber girls almost 2 to 1.

El Sistema Nacional Para la Prevención Mitigación y Atención de Desastres de Nicaragua (SINAPRED), instituciones de gobierno y el Equipo Técnico de Emergencias de Naciones Unidas (UNETE), participaron en la simulación de un huracán categoría 5 con el objetivo de fortalecer los procesos de coordinación y operación conjunta para la asistencia humanitaria.

**Harare - Persistent hunger and under-nutrition continue to be major obstacles to development and economic growth in Zimbabwe, especially among the poor. A third of Zimbabwe’s children between six months and five years are short for their age and hence more prone to disease. The United Nations, through its specialist agencies- WFP, UNICEF, WHO and FAO - has supported the development of the Food and Nutrition Security Policy for Zimbabwe.

KATHMANDU - The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) together with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and German development agency Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), today inaugurated a new road that connects remote villages of Baitadi district in far-western Nepal, providing communities with better access to markets, health centres, schools and other key facilities.

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

Following good performance of long rains since March, food security improves in eastern areas

KEY MESSAGES

• The March to May long rains have been average to above average in amounts in the Southeastern Marginal Mixed Farming and pastoral livelihood zones, but they are expected to cease normally in mid-May. In most parts of the Coastal Marginal Agricultural Mixed Farming livelihood zone, rainfall will likely peak in May/June and cease in June/July.

A year of conflict in the West African nation of Mali has brought hunger to hundreds of thousands of people. Drought and endemic poverty have also taken their toll. Here are 8 things to know about hunger in Mali and what WFP is doing to deliver food and hope to the people who live there.

1. The food security and nutrition situation in northern Mali has deteriorated significantly following a conflict in the northern part of the county which has forced some 475,000 people from their homes while making it difficult to reach those who stayed behind with assistance.