The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) coordinated a technical meeting to promote and build government capacity for rural poverty reduction through social protection policymaking in the NENA region.
Social protection and social policies that protect the poor are limited in the NENA region, especially in rural areas where over 70% of poor people live and dependRead more
South Sudan on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, with more than three years of war leaving nearly five million hungry in what aid groups called a "man-made" tragedy.
Isaiah Chol Aruai, the chairman of South Sudan national bureau of statistics, said some counties of the northern Greater Unity region "are classified in famine, or ... riskRead more