The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...
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South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...
In 2022, 258 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity, in 58 countries/territories, with available data. This was up from 193 million in 53 countries in 2021...
The World Bank Afghanistan Economic Monitor provides a summary of the latest economic developments and key economic indicators. Drawing from a range of data sources, including real-time data...
Highlights: Global food insecurity remains at worrying levels and the outlook for 2024 is bleak. This report aims to accomplish several objectives. Firstly , to raise awareness and provide...
This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...
United Nations – World Bank Group Partnership in Crisis-Affected Situations – monitoring report 2022
Highlights: The report provides an overview of joint work on four priority themes across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus over a period covering July 2020 to June 2022 (FY20–22)...
This paper studies the effect of the 2018 drought on household consumption and poverty in Afghanistan, a semi-arid and conflict-affected country. The paper combines geolocated household data with remote-sensing weather data...
Highlights related to food security Economic context/access to food: Inflation is predominantly influenced by factors such as the exchange rate, international energy and food prices, and domestic demand...
Afghanistan’s economy remains exceedingly fragile, and the food insecurity remains alarmingly high. In October 2023, during the post-harvest season, approximately 13.1 million people, accounting...