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Posted on October 23, 2024
By Ina Lee, Communications Director, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
A child suffering from severe malnutrition. Photo: YRRF
Yemen is at the epicenter of one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, where years of conflict, economic devastation, and climate extremes have left millions without reliable access to food. Today, over 17 million Yemenis – more than half the population – don’t know when they will eat their next meal. The Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation (YRRF) is at the forefront of addressing this crisis, committed to providing life-saving nutrition and medical support to Yemen’s most vulnerable: its children.
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Posted on October 22, 2024
By Sylvester Michael Modhu and Amanda Erne, World Concern
By 2050, Bangladesh is expected to lose 17% of its land surface and 30% of its food production to climate-change-driven sea level rise and coastal erosion.[1] This prediction would be concerning anywhere, but in the world’s eighth most populated country, densely packed with 172+million people, the impacts of such a change are hard to fathom
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Posted on October 22, 2024
By Chloe Pan, Global Communities
Photo: Global Communities
While many traditional approaches to improving food security outcomes focus on addressing farmers’ agricultural knowledge and access to productive resources, they may not always use a gender lens to understand the different needs, challenges and capabilities of women farmers. As climate change continues to threaten global food security, it’s crucial to use an inclusive approach to programming that will close the gender gap in agricultural productivity and address the barriers faced by those who are most vulnerable.
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