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Highlights: Conflict and economic decline have driven about 20.3 million people across Sudan (over 42 percent of the country’s population) into high levels of...

Global evidence base versus practice in five country examples Overweight and obesity rates across low- and middle-income countries are approaching levels in high-income countries...

Highlights: The cumulative effect of nutrition starts from the embryonic stage to throughout the lifespan. An interplay of individual, inter-personal and social determinants plays an essential role in household food...

The latest IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis focuses on the entire population of Guatemala's 22 departments, totaling 17.6 million people. From March to May 2023, around...

Highlights: This Sahel and West Africa Regional Focus covers sixteen countries – Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has eight member states – Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan and Uganda Its goal...

Highlights: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further...

KEY MESSAGES: The food crisis is growing and is highly exacerbated by insecurity, inflation and the adverse effects of climate change The 2022-2023 agropastoral season was generally satisfactory, but...

Provide immediate assistance to the 42.5 million people at risk of food and nutrition crisis during the lean season (June-August 2023) and commit to structural responses to prevent food...

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...