Central African Republic: Sowing Seeds for Change
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Food security in world 2050
The document discusses food security challenges facing the world by 2050. Key points include:
- Global food production must increase 70% by 2050 to feed a rising population expected to reach 9.1 billion.
- Hunger currently affects over 821 million people worldwide and billions lack reliable access to nutritious food.
- Factors exacerbating food insecurity include population growth, changing diets, climate change, water scarcity, soil erosion, and plateauing crop yields.
- Solutions proposed are closing yield gaps, raising water productivity, balancing calorie and nutrient needs, reducing food waste, and supporting young farmers. UN agencies are working on programs like Zero Hunger to end hunger by 2030.
Small livestock development towards the achievement of the UN Millennium Deve...
Small livestock development towards the achievement of the UN Millennium Deve...IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
The document discusses how small livestock development can contribute to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. It provides examples from IFAD projects of how goats, sheep, and other small livestock have helped reduce poverty, improve education and gender equality, reduce child mortality, and improve health outcomes in places like Eastern Africa, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Lesotho. Small livestock are noted as an important asset for poor households that can generate income and nutrition.World food program
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide. Established in 1961, the WFP aims to ensure all people have access to enough food. It provides food assistance to over 80 million vulnerable people across 75 countries annually. The WFP is entirely funded through voluntary donations. Hunger disproportionately affects rural populations, women, and children in developing nations. Key causes of hunger include food waste, climate issues, poverty, and war. The WFP's strategic plan focuses on emergency food assistance, building resilience, reducing risks to food security, and combating malnutrition.
Sanchez - nature plants 2015
This document summarizes the progress being made towards increasing food production in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses how cereal yields have risen 50% between 2005-2013 after stagnating for decades below 1 metric tonne per hectare. Interventions across the agricultural value chain, including improved seeds and fertilizers, extension services, storage, processing, markets and financing, have contributed to this rise. Continued efforts to address inputs, production practices, and market access could help lift yields to 3 metric tonnes per hectare across the region and eventually to 5 metric tonnes, though significant challenges remain.
WFP Year in Review in 2015
The Year in Review describes WFP’s actions and achievements in serving people’s emergency, recovery and development needs in 2015. It covers WFP’s provision of vital, common platforms and services for the humanitarian and development community.
Protecting the environment
The document discusses several key challenges facing global agriculture by 2050 including:
- The global population is expected to increase by 42% by 2050, requiring food production to double to keep pace with demand
- Agriculture currently uses 70% of global fresh water supplies and over 50% of habitable land
- Innovations that increase crop yields, like irrigation, will be needed to sustainably meet rising demand for food while protecting resources like water.
Agricultural development-strategy-overview
The document discusses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Agricultural Development strategy, which aims to reduce hunger and poverty for millions of small farm families in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It focuses on helping small-scale farmers increase their productivity and incomes through improved seeds, tools, farming techniques, market access, and policies. It emphasizes the importance of including women farmers, who make up a large portion of the agricultural workforce but face significant constraints, in these efforts to maximize their impact on nutrition, food security and economic development.
3 gender scr
The document summarizes an approach to empower rural women in India through improved livelihood options and nutrition education. It discusses how women farmers are less productive than men due to unequal access to assets and services. The approach involves participatory analysis at the village level to understand barriers and develop solutions, implementing solutions like training and self-help groups, and continually monitoring impacts while integrating health, education, livelihoods and food security. The goal is to improve nutrition, education and health outcomes by increasing women's incomes and empowerment.
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Central African Republic: Sowing Seeds for Change
- 1. #seeds4change #CARcantwait fao.org/emergencies/crisis/car wfp.org/countries/central-african-republic 75% Sowing Seeds for Change in the Central African Republic (CAR) C0004e/1/03.16 ©FAO, 2016 Nearly 1 million people are still displaced inside CAR or seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme are working together in CAR to improve farming communities’ access to food. Families have been forced to sell what they own, pull their kids out of school, even resort to begging to survive. FAO and WFP have about half of the funding that they need for the upcoming planting season. People in CAR cannot afford to receive only 1/2 of the support they need. Crop production in 2015 compared to 2012* *2012: pre-crisis Number of cattle compared to 2012* Increase in food prices compared to 2012* The number of hungry people has doubled in 1 year, as conflict and insecurity have led to limited access to and availability of food. Seeds for Change for sale −54% −50% +74% CAR is already the 3rd most undernourished country in the world. Some 75% of people in CAR depend on agriculture. People need food to survive, and seeds and tools for planting so that they have food at the next harvest. This means that when times are tough and food is scarce, families don’t have to resort to eating the seeds that are meant for planting. WFP provides groundnuts, maize, rice, sorghum, and beans for families to prepare meals to eat now and during the growing season. FAO provides crop and vegetable seeds for sowing to the same families so they can eat in the future too. Each year starting in 2014, WFP and FAO work in synch to provide seeds and food to nearly 100 000 hungry farming families before their planting season starts. This partnership and the co-leadership of the Food Security Cluster enhances the coordination and impact of each agencies’ work to reduce hunger now and in the years to come.