food security

As concerns mounted about a dismal harvest the following year, largely as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, world leaders called for immediate action to address global food poverty. Ministers from the European Union, the...

World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has authorized $202 million as extra funding for the Modern Food Storage Facilities Project to expand the storage capacity of Bangladesh’s national strategic grain reserves by 535,500 tons for 4.5...

More than 14 million adults, and some 4.7 million children in Europe and Central Asia suffer from severe food insecurity – as defined by the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) – the Food and Agriculture Organization...

About half of the people in the coastal southwestern districts of Khulna and Satkhira of Bangladesh have no access to safe drinking water and 58% lack sanitation facilities, water, and sanitation experts said at a dialogue Thursday. They said...

BRAC, in collaboration with the Government of Liberia and the European Union under its Pro ACT 2015 food security project are implementing a series of nutrition awareness activities to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition in the...

Ambassadors from four European countries visited BRAC’s food security and livelihood programme at Buchanan, Grand Bassa County on 28 November 2017. The honourable group of ambassadors was Ambassador of European Union, Helene Cave, German Ambassador Hubert...

News Hour: William Lacy Swing, the Director General of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, accepted the Jacques Diouf Award on behalf of the Organization. The Award was jointly granted to IOM and the Rabobank Foundation. The...

News Hour: A failed 2016 rainy season linked to the climate phenomenon La Niña, combined with exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, have led to extreme drought in the...

News Hour: Preparatory work has begun for a proposed project to improve food security in Tajikistan by boosting dairy production while making the industry more resilient to climate change. A $500,000 technical assistance grant by the...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $26 million grant and the administration of a $50 million grant from the European Union to enhance crop diversification and food security by improving irrigated agriculture in...