On behalf of more than 1,900 humanitarian partners worldwide, the United Nations launched its global appeal for 2024. More than 180 million people need life-saving assistance and protection.
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On behalf of more than 1,900 humanitarian partners worldwide, the United Nations launched its global appeal for 2024. More than 180 million people need life-saving assistance and protection.
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More than 27 million children were driven into hunger and malnutrition by extreme weather events in countries heavily impacted by the climate crisis in 2022, which was a 135% jump from 2021.
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FEWS NET anticipates that about 110 million people will need food aid through early next year, with a net increase in needs in Southern Africa and the Latin America and Caribbean regions.
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The first-of-its-kind vaccine will be sent to areas where the risk of illness and death among children are highest. The first doses are expected in late-2023, with rollout starting by early 2024.
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Millions of children are being denied their human right to an education and the numbers are growing. And even when they are able to go to school, the quality of education is simply too low.
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The number of movements in which people fled in search of safety and shelter - sometimes more than once - was also unprecedented in 2022, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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Africa is witnessing an exponential rise in cholera cases - if the trend continues, it could surpass the number of cases recorded in 2021, the worst year for cholera in Africa in nearly a decade.
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A new report by Christian Aid shows that floods, cyclones and drought killed and displaced millions of people across the globe in places which have done little to cause the climate crisis.
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Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that has at its core time-sensitive and life-saving agricultural assistance, the situation will likely worsen in many countries in the coming months.
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Severe funding constraints in West Africa, where hunger has reached a record high in a decade, have forced WFP to cut rations for refugees in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
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WFP combines activities that regenerate the environment, such as soil, water conservation, land restoration, agroforestry and developing community infrastructure, with access to early warning systems.
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According to a new report from the UNCCD, more than 1.4 billion people were affected by drought from 2000 to 2019. This makes drought the disaster affecting the second-highest number of people.
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In some cases, food and agriculture receive only 3% of the national budget. FAO found that of this, on average, more than a fifth is un-disbursed due to insufficient implementing capacity.
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020, says coalition of UN, EU, NGOs and government agencies.
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The transboundary insect targets maize and other food crops. FAO estimates it is putting at risk up to 80 million tonnes of maize worth $18 billion per year in Africa, Asia, and the Near East.
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While the COVID-19 crisis has shown the realities of how vulnerable the world can be, the climate crisis is and will continue to have much more significant impact, according to a new IFRC report.
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A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic joins conflict, climate change and economic troubles in pushing up levels of hunger around the world.
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Con 3.596.000 de casos de COVID-19 confirmados, la ONU pide 6,7 mil millones de dólares para proteger millones de vidas y frenar la propagación del coronavirus en países frágiles.
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The peak of the disease in the world’s poorest countries is not expected until some time over the next three to six months. However, there is already evidence of children missing vaccinations and meals.
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Internal displacement in Africa has reached unprecedented levels; the conflict and disaster events in 2019 suggest the number of displacements is likely to continue rising.