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UNDP’s Adaptive Community Water Initiative (CWI)

CWI (Community Water Initiative) was launched as a part of efforts to achieve water and sanitation MDGs (Millennium Development Goals). It supports decentralized demand driven, low cost and community run water and sanitation initiatives. Read it here.

September 10, 2012

Addressing the shortfall: The urgent need for increased and better targeted aid to the water and sanitation sector

According to this report, published ahead of the gathering of experts from across the world for World Water Week, shows how the cost of water and sanitation aid provided per year to each person is less than the price of a coffee. This report by the WaterAid and Development Initiatives […]

September 10, 2012

Ghana to receive aid for food from the G8 alliance on food security

Ghana is set to receive an amount of US$600 million from the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an implementation of the G8. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

West Africa unveils food security plan

West African countries have entered into a partnership to facilitate the increment of a number of key crops in the region. This is a result of the partnership between ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and UNDP. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

South Africa sees reduction in food insecurity

According to data publishedin Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in the General Household Survey, the households’ vulnerability to hunger has declined in the last ten years – it stood at 23.8 per cent in 2002, and was at 11.5 per cent in 2011. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Climate change threat to the world’s poor underestimated

Climate change’s effects on the world’s poor are currently severely underestimated, as weather extremes become more and more common, threatening the food security of those who are in the low-income segment. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

North Korea’s destitute status worsened by poor harvests

The part of North Korea which is chronically hungry could now possibly lose as much as 13 per cent of its grain harvest due to droughts, followed by massive amount of rains leading to floods. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Food insecurity in Africa

As many as 44 million people slipped below the poverty line in 2008 due to a hike in food prices. This post writes about an Economist Intelligence Unit report (register for it here) which assesses food security under three broad headings – affordability, availability and quality. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Food prices soared to 10 per cent in July

According to data compiled by the World Bank, global food prices in the month of July, riding on the back of droughts in the US, Eastern Europe crop centres, rose by 10 per cent in July. Read more here.