Africa Solidarity Trust Fund supports efforts to eradicate hunger, reduce malnutrition and poverty. First $2 million each goes to CAR, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger and South Sudan.
CAR + 5 more
CAR + 5 more
Africa Solidarity Trust Fund supports efforts to eradicate hunger, reduce malnutrition and poverty. First $2 million each goes to CAR, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger and South Sudan.
In building climate change related strategies and agendas, policy makers need to pay attention to the inclusivity of children, and how the changes will impact the lives of children.
Zimbabwe + 3 more
Army worms and red locusts are contributing to the woes of subsistence farmers already struggling to recover from setbacks in the last farming cycle as they destroy hectares of crops.
World + 45 more
CERF and its partners were challenged by a series of large, complex crises in the Central African Republic, the Philippines, Syria and Yemen, affecting 35 million people.
Parts of Malawi, including large parts of the northern region, have not received rain since February 2013 and are now experiencing severe water and food shortage.
China + 1 more
Total economic losses for the province are estimated at 19.1 billion yuan (US$3.12 billion), while more than 8,000 relief workers are still battling the floods.
Northeast China has been hit by the worst flooding in decades this summer, while the south is fighting the effects of Typhoon Utor.
More than 50% of the country remains mired in poverty, with one quarter of ‘ultra poor’ Malawians earning less than the estimated costs of a diet providing minimum recommended calorie intake.
The incessant rain has caused floods and landslides, which as well as leading to many deaths, have destroyed agricultural land and small businesses, and wiped out livestock, says Christian Aid.
Landslides in Nepal are the country’s costliest and most deadly type of natural disaster, but their management is still considered to be a low priority, experts say.
The country was hit by an earthquake, drought, floods,snow-triggered disasters, hail, landslides, sandstorms, prairie fires, storms, typhoons and frost from January to June.
When the rains came in Uttarakhand, it was runaway building projects, dams and official failures that made them catastrophic.
Nepal + 1 more
The severity of the disaster could have been mitigated with a better end-to-end information system and proper infrastructure planning would have reduced the damage, says ICIMOD.
Hailstorms and torrential rain-triggered floods have left about 160,000 people affected in the southern part of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
More than two million people are facing food shortages this year due to the prolonged dry spells and soaring food prices that have pushed consumer inflation to 36.6 percent as of March.
Unless there is sufficient intervention by the end of the lean months, more than 36,000 children are likely to have suffered severe acute malnutrition.
World + 4 more
The new metric will be field-tested in four countries, and relies on gathering information on the extent and severity of hunger from food-insecure people, through a carefully-designed annual survey to be conducted in collaboration with polling specialists Gallup, Inc.
Joyce Banda seemed to be making all the right moves but her initial popularity is eroding fast as she implements policies to fix the economy
Thousands of people have been displaced and are living in makeshift shelters.
CERF has approved the disbursement of US$3.2 million to fight widespread food insecurity in Malawi.