Overcoming COVID-19 restrictions through adaptive measures that facilitate access to agricultural and nutrition knowledge
05/05/2022
Somalia has experienced years of conflict and fragility resulting in chronic poverty and vulnerability, displacement, poor economic capacity and food and nutrition insecurity. In 2020, up to 1.3 million people across Somalia were expected to face food consumption gaps or [...]
Improving diets while promoting the diversification of livelihoods and nutrition education in a protracted crisis
02/09/2020
Over 75 percent of the population in rural and peri-urban areas in South Sudan rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. With the outbreak of conflict starting at the end of 2013, the country has seen large-scale displacement, loss of livelihoods and [...]
Combining cash payments, nutrition education and provision of agricultural and livestock inputs to increase food security and improve diets of drought-affected pastoralists and farmers
08/07/2020
In 2016 and 2017, a drought led to large-scale food insecurity across Somalia, affecting more than six million people, including over 900,000 children under the age of five likely to be acutely malnourished. Following the two-year drought, in 2018, heavy [...]
Creating employment opportunities and enhancing adaptive capacities to recurrent drought within protracted crises
20/07/2016
The West Bank is an arid or semi-arid land characterized by low precipitation with a large proportion of rainfall rapidly lost as surface runoff. While natural shocks like drought pose challenges to the already fragile water network, the protracted conflict [...]