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/PRNewswire/ -- Today The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the ninth annual Global Food Security Index (GFSI) sponsored by Corteva (NYSE: CTVA),...
Climate Extremes, Food Insecurity, and Migration in Central America: A Complicated Nexus Format By Diego Pons There is growing evidence that climate extremes are having a devastating impact on agriculture in Central America, affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and serving as a driver of migration from the region. Both droughts and floods have been shown to have serious financial impacts in many rural areas. Droughts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon caused agricultural losses estimated at U.S. $465 million in 2014 alone. Over the last 30 years, l...
5 women and 5 ways WFP is helping to empower them Format Yemen is another country where the World Food Programme is empowering women. © WFP/Annabel Symington Voices from Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Kenya and Madagascar on how the World Food Programme is changing lives Women make up a little over half of the world’s population but suffer unequal access to resources and education in every corner of the globe. Globally, women are more likely than men to suffer from hunger and food insecurity. Yet women are also forceful agents when it comes ending hunger. In fact, ensuring female farmers ha...
Cucumbers are grown using ground pumice stone for soil in Cacaopera. Photo: Photo: WFP/Nick Roeder There’s little remarkable about a greenhouse growing chillis, cucumbers and tomatoes until you learn that it’s situated in the ‘Dry Corridor’—a vast stretch of Central America where drought linked to the El Niño climate phenomenon is pushing more and more people into food insecurity. Farmers in countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are unable to grow and this makes accessing food difficult for millions of people. The 'house of gold' greenhouse was launched in 2018....
02/04/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/03/2021 17:19 UNHCR and IOM call for improved safeguards for the displaced on the frontlines of climate emergency 04 February 2021 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are calling on states to strengthen the protection and assistance of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, ahead of a virtual conference co-hosted today, 4 February, with PDD, the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacement, currently chaired by the Government of Fiji, with the Government of Franc...