by Nikita C. Birkbeck | Mar 15, 2017 | Activism, Aid Effectiveness, Community-led Development, Education, Food Security, Gender, Governance, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, Leadership, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Right to Food, Uncategorized, youth
Indonesia’s Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Mandiri (PNPM), or National Program for Community Empowerment, is a government-led, multi-donor trust-funded pilot program, which is managed by the World Bank Group (WBG) and delivered through the PNPM Support Facility (PSF)....
by Tamene Adugna | Mar 26, 2014 | Food Security, Meetings, Reports, Right to Food, SDGs
The 38th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened yesterday in Yokohama Japan. According to the IPCC news briefing, governments meet in Japan from 25 March 2014 until 30 March 2014 to discuss a major scientific report by IPCC. The Working...
by Tamene Adugna | Mar 17, 2014 | Activism, Data, Food Security, Livelihoods, Reports, Right to Food, SDGs
Olivier De Schutter, a United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has recently presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council. The Rapporteur called for the world’s food system to be radically and democratically redesigned. (SRFOOD.ORG, 2014). In...
by Tamene Adugna | Feb 20, 2014 | Activism, Food Security, Health, Right to Food, WASH
Those who wish for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world are helping to make ending world hunger a major priority… Together we can end hunger. Robert Alan Silverstein According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an estimated 870 million...
by Tamene Adugna | Feb 4, 2014 | Activism, Food Security, Livelihoods, Reports, Right to Food, SDGs
An important article on the importance of making agricultural policies nutrition-enhancing was published recently on The Guardian under a title Agriculture and Nutrition: you are what you saw. Policies that foster agricultural investments and increase food production...
by Tamene Adugna | Jan 30, 2014 | Food Security, Right to Food
As a landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa and with a population of 36.35 million (2012), Uganda will face a daunting task in reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable development in the coming years. Despite the challenges, over the past decade, the country has...
