Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A UN Women report reveals that policies ranging from cash benefits to healthcare and pensions are not being extended to enough women and girls, leaving them more vulnerable to poverty worldwide.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A member of the Kaqchikel Indigenous Mayan people, Ajú is one of tens of thousands of smallholder farmers across the country the World Food Programme (WFP) supports in improving production and locating viable markets. Smallholder farmers make...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Laruwati Kamat, a rural woman farmer from Siraha district in eastern Nepal, has always known the value of fresh food. For generations, her family followed seasonal patterns to cultivate vegetables, believing certain months were the only viable time to...
Monday, October 14, 2024
Enfrentar o desperdício de alimentos se torna cada vez mais urgente quando nos deparamos com dados alarmantes do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente (Pnuma) que indicam que 1 bilhão de toneladas de alimentos foram jogadas fora em 2022. Isso...
Monday, October 14, 2024
Confronting food waste becomes increasingly urgent when we are faced with alarming data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicating that 1 billion tons of food were wasted in 2022. This amounts to about one-fifth of total global...
Friday, October 11, 2024
India’s recent launch of the National Pension System (NPS) Vatsalya aims to expand pension coverage to a broader demographic, allowing individuals from infancy to 70 years old to participate.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Barriers like poverty, underrepresentation and disenfranchisement disproportionately impact women and girls across the globe. While social protection measures have the potential to positively impact the female population, they often fall short....
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Poverty headcount in Asia and the Pacific could increase by more than 15 percentage points in some countries, given the current low social protection expenditure levels in the region, according to new estimates. In a pessimistic scenario, about 266...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Globally, the number of people aged 65 or older is increasing as a share of the population, which raises the question: will these older adults receive a predictable and adequate pensions? That question is one that has enormous consequences for old-age...
Monday, October 7, 2024
There are disparities in the ground-level implementation of social protection schemes, thus appropriate interventions for the vulnerable urban poor must be undertaken across India.
