The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$10.7mn grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to help vulnerable children get better access to nutritious food through school feeding programmes in Benin, Ghana, Honduras, and India
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UN agencies call for urgent action as millions of children struggle with acute malnutrition
United Nations (UN) agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis, and scaling up these actions as a coordinated package will be critical for preventing and treating acute malnutrition in children, and averting loss of life
NARC holds activity assessment meeting to discuss agricultural development
The National Agricultural Research Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture (NARC) held its annual activity assessment meeting on 10 January
CERF allocates US$6mn to aid victims of of Cameroon’s humanitarian crises
The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief coordinator (USG/ERC), Martin Griffiths, approved the allocation of US$6mn from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide lifesaving and protection assistance to people affected by the humanitarian crisis in Cameroon
Zimbabwe on the path to becoming new self-sustalning agri-powerhouse of Africa
With 375,000 tons of wheat harvested in the previous year, Zimbabwe has proved its self-reliance as an African agri-powerhouse