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Highlights The humanitarian situation, especially in the central Sahel, remained dire and was compounded by rising food and energy prices, as well as climate–related disasters, prompted by heavy rainfall...

The urgent need to act in the face of interconnected crises (security, pastoral and rural, economic - soaring prices...) weakening the livelihoods and food resilience of vulnerable populations and threatening...

This brief presents existing evidence on the role of social protection to address food insecurity and malnutrition, and dives into key strategic opportunities for WFP to accelerate these impacts in Western...

Malnutrition continues to be a major health burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and is one of the predominant risk factors for ill health and death, with women and children being...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis on the relationship between nutrition, health, climate change, environment, agriculture and sustainable development, with a special interest in sustainably enhancing Africa’s nutritional...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic severely hit education systems around the world. School closures left millions of children without access to regular school meals. In Western...

In many countries in Western Africa, poverty and food insecurity are high and pervasive, and intertwine with recurring shocks. As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated at a global scale, social...

Even before the onset of the Ukraine crisis, the Sahel region was already heading towards a major food and nutrition security crisis and facing the highest levels of food insecurity...

Ce premier rapport régional sur la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest a été réalisé par...