A developmental evaluation was carried out on WFP’s support to smallholder farmers and its expanded portfolio across the agriculture value chain in Bhutan from January 2019 to June 2021. Based on the findings, five recommendations were made to advance its food systems portfolio.
The idea of a global fund for social protection has taken hold over the last decade as a potential solution to structural gaps in the global financial and development architectures that have failed to ensure social protection receives an equitable share of development resources available and have left 4.14 billion people – or 53.1% of the world’s population – especially those in low- and middle-income countries, excluded from any social protection scheme.
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the majority of whom were women. In response, the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank provided a $50.7 million grant to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) to increase control and surveillance of new pest outbreaks, to restore livelihoods for vulnerable households and communities affected, and to create a
Recent decades have witnessed the globalisation of policies promoting social cash transfers as a critical instrument for poverty reduction. Among various approaches, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) model promoted by the World Bank has gained discursive dominance in countries where this strategy, and its technical model for implementation, appear more attractive than competing alternatives.
At the 2021 Food Systems Summit, convened by the UN Secretary-General, Home-Grown School Feeding programmes were considered a game changer for strengthening local food systems around the world. This paper analyzes the Kenya Home-Grown School Meal Programme with respect to achieving multiple objectives - increasing school enrolment and attendance; addressing hunger and malnutrition; encouraging local production and creating jobs across the school meal value chain and promoting climate adaptive agriculture.
The Social Protection Team of FAO, in collaboration with the FAO Liaison Office to the UN in Geneva, organizes a series of dialogues on social protection on different thematic topics. Three sessions have been already organized focusing on: (i) Opportunities and challenges to extend social protection coverage to rural areas; (ii) Social protection for inclusive climate action; and (iii) Shock-responsive social protection and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus.