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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

FAO, UNICEF, WFP deploy massive relief operation

The trio of the United Nations Agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP), with other partners, have conducted massive relief operations since the conflict began, and intensified those efforts throughout 2016 to mitigate the worst effects of the humanitarian crisis, reports NaijaAgroNet.

For example, the said that in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, among others, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment team found that humanitarian relief had lessened the risk of famine there.

Also, FAO has provided emergency livelihood kits to more than 2.3 million people to help them fish or plant vegetables. FAO has also vaccinated more than 6 million livestock such as goats and sheep to prevent further loss.

While WFP continued to scale up its support in South Sudan as humanitarian needs increase, and plans to provide food and nutrition assistance to 4.1 million people through the hunger season in South Sudan this year.

This, NaijaAgroNet gathered, includes lifesaving emergency food, cash and nutrition assistance for people displaced and affected by conflict, as well as community-based recovery or resilience programs and school meals. 

In 2016, WFP reached a record 4 million people in South Sudan with food assistance - including cash assistance amounting to US$13.8 million, and more than 265,000 metric tons of food and nutrition supplies. It is the largest number of people assisted by WFP in South Sudan since independence, despite problems resulting from the challenging context.

UNICEF aims to treat 207,000 children for severe acute malnutrition in 2017. Working with over 40 partners and in close collaboration with WFP, UNICEF is supporting 620 outpatient therapeutic programme sites and about 50 inpatient therapeutic sites across the country to provide children with urgently needed treatment.


Through a rapid response mechanism carried out jointly with WFP, UNICEF continues to reach communities in the most remote locations. These rapid response missions treat thousands of children for malnutrition as well as provide them with immunization services, safe water and sanitation which also prevent recurring malnutrition.

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

MVAC says N7.4b needed to avert hunger in Malawi



The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC) responsible for annual food security assessment has raised alarm that over 2 million Malawians are in critical hunger list saying that about N7.4billion as relief is required, reports NaijaAgroNet.

The investigation has it that over two million out of 16 million people (representing 17 per cent of the population) will not be able to meet their annual food requirement during the 2015/16 consumption period, requiring an estimated 124,000 metric tonnes of maize worth $37.2 million about N7.4 billion

The Secretary to the Treasury, Ronald Mangani said recently that there has been an increase of 116 per cent in the number of affected people during the period compared to over 1million during the 2014/15 period, NaijaAgroNet gathered.

“This increase has been as a result of weather-related hazards ranging from late onset of rains, floods and dry spells to early cessation of rains, all of which affected crop production during the 2014/15 agriculture season,” he stated.

According to him,  the government in collaboration with its development partners will be implementing response interventions to assist the affected populations.

This report, NaijaAgroNet learnt, was carried out by MVAC from June 8 to July 2, 2015 to assess food security situations in the country and determining the number of people who are likely to be food insecure.

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