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This resource aims at strengthening the capacity of West African pastoral stakeholders to respond to crises by focusing on the creation of real-time data collection tools and systems with extensive geographical coverage...

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

One million children under five are affected by stunting in Mali (more than one in four)1 and the number of stunted children is not expected to fall in the coming years...

MAIN FINDINGS Type of humanitarian assistance intervention: Unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) are the most common type of humanitarian assistance intervention, followed by food transfers...

Levels of hunger in 2021 remain alarmingly high, with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according...

The rapid growth of the human population in West Africa makes malnutrition a pressing issue. This paper highlights the predicted nutritional issues in West Africa by 2030. Data were...

While smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to 90 percent of food production in some countries, often systems in the region do...

This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...

The Mali Summary Report summarizes the findings of the Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis carried out in Mali in 2020-21, including analyses of the cost and affordability of nutritious diets by Malian...

The 36 th annual meeting was held virtually in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. It took stock of the 2020-21 agro-pastoral campaign, the food and nutrition situation and the responses...