Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to significantly improve urban food security and feed the underprivileged when promoted. In Ghana, urban agriculture has several...
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Global Food and Nutrition Security
Climate change has been a significant threat to sustainable agriculture impacting trade and food security. This research investigates the impacts of climate change on agricultural trade and food...
Afghanistan is facing one of the world's most serious humanitarian and environmental crises, with food insecurity, conflict, instability, and climate change. To analyze all these interrelated challenges...
This study analyzed smallholder maize farmers' perceptions of climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategies in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The study used a cross-sectional quantitative approach...
A win-win partnership between the European Union and Senegal in favor of climate action and integrated coastal zone management
The State of Senegal represented by Mr. Daouda Ngom, Minister of the Environment and Ecological Transition and Mr. Jean-Marc Pisani, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Senegal received, today...
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are deepening their cooperation through an enhanced framework to help countries scale up action to confront...
Unleashing Adaptive Potential for Social Protection: Good Practices in The Latin America and Caribbean Region
In Latin America and the Caribbean, extreme weather events have doubled in the last 30 years.
Navigating climate vulnerability: Lessons from adaptive social protection practices in Latin America
For almost three weeks straight in May 2024, heavy rains relentlessly pounded the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, causing devastating floods...
WFP rallies support for vulnerable small island states as worst Atlantic Hurricane season in decades kicks off
This week, Heads of State and governments from the Caribbean and the Pacific met with the WFP delegation - led by Executive Director Cindy McCain - to highlight the need to address the existential...
Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis later this year after an El Niño induced mid-season dry spell—the worst in the last hundred years—affected the harvest...