COVID-19 is a defining moment for strengthening drought resilience of society and managing ecosystems more sustainably. Both recent and historical experiences indicate that disease outbreaks very often...
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Global Food and Nutrition Security
Chapter 4 focuses more specifically on agriculture and climate shocks
Key messages for this chapter are as follows:
The last decade witnessed a dramatic decline in...
Key messages: World hunger rose further in 2021. The increase in global hunger in 2021 reflects exacerbated inequalities across and within countries due to an unequal pattern...
The effective delivery of social protection programs will help to reduce the extent to which the crisis adversely affects long-term human capital accumulation. COVID-19 pandemic-related shocks...
Food security deteriorated significantly in 2019 as the drought, Cyclone Idai, and a worsening macroeconomic environment magnified structural deficiencies. Food security remains an issue despite better...
CONTEXT: During crises, adaptation or recovery measures or plans at local or national scales may not necessarily address longer-term or structural problems such as climate change...
According to the acute food insecurity analysis in Zambia, it is estimated that around 1.42 million people (22% of the analysed population) were facing high levels of acute...
The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the emerging health profile of the changing climate.The 2020 report presents...
During the month of May 2020, which coincides with the lean season, approximately 42,000 people (0.4%) were classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), while approximately...
According to the UN’s State of Food Insecurity in the World 2019 report, the number of undernourished population in the world is at a 4 years high of 821 Million people, while as just...