As the war in Ukraine pushes food, fuel and fertilizer prices toward record levels putting food security in many of the world’s poorest countries at risk, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today launched a Crisis Response Initiative to ensure that small-scale farmer...s in high-risk countries can produce food over the next few months to feed their families and communities while reducing the threat to future harvests.
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A Decade of Change for Newborn Survival: Bangladesh
Issue Brief no.15, September 2021, updated 19 October 2021
New displacements by conflict and disasters in 2020
Key findings from a February 2021 survey from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC)
This report shows that frontier agriculture is a viable complement to conventional agriculture, particularly in Africa and countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV).
This report, which involved input from across WaterAid, in particular from the Programme Support Unit (PSU) of WaterAid UK, includes case studies from a variety of countries, including Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Nepal, each demonstrating what must be done now to i...mprove WASH services and address current challenges, in order to increase community resilience to climate change.
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Executive summary
Accessed: 31.03.2019
May 17,2022 MEDBOX Issue Brief no.21
A guide for hospital trusts' hotel services, procurement teams and caterers to provide more sustainable food.
Policy
25 February 2015 Vol 7 Issue 276 276fs8
The purpose of the handbook is to provide those involved in nutrition coordination with relevant tools, guidance, information and resources to support their roles in facilitating predictable, coordinated and effective preparation for, and responses to, nutrition needs in humanitarian emergencies. Ra...ther than being prescriptive, the handbook aims to raises key issues encountered to date.
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