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ELRHA - Rapid Response Grants Facility

ELRHA is an organisation dedicated to supporting partnerships between academic and humanitarian communities around the world. Yesterday ELRHA launched a new Rapid Response Grants Facility to help address the lack...
29 Oct 2013

Global Food Security Cluster Meeting of Partners 5 and 6 November 2013 & Face-to-Face Working Group Meetings 4 November 2013

The global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) meeting of partners was held on 5 and 6 November 2013 at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. The meeting brought together...
16 Sep 2013

Emergency Food Security Livelihoods Officer JD - Pacific Islands

IMC is looking for a FSL officer for a 3 months emergency deployment to the Pacific Islands starting July 1 st 2013.
25 Jun 2013

Global Food Security Cluster Meeting of Partners 17/18 April 2013

The global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) meeting of partners was held from 17 to 18 April 2013 in Rome, Italy. The meeting brought together more than 60 participants and observers...
5 Jun 2013

Global Food Security Cluster - 2013-2014 Strategic Plan

The Vision of the global Food Security Cluster is that “Food security needs for individuals and communities in humanitarian crises are met.” The Vision is supported by a Mission Statement...
5 Jun 2013

gFSC 2012 Annual Report

The gFSC focused on five core areas of work during 2012: 1. Operational and Surge Support to National Clusters 2. Capacity Development 3. Tools and Guidance 4. Information Management 5...
5 Jun 2013

The global Food Security Cluster Meeting of Partners - October 2012

The global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) meeting of partners was held from 24 to 25 October 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting brought together more than 60 participants and observers...
19 Oct 2012

Globally almost 870 million chronically undernourished - new hunger report

Nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food...
9 Oct 2012

FOOD: A quiet water revolution

JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - Quietly, a revolution to develop cheap ways to draw water for irrigation is unfolding in small villages and rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa and...
27 Aug 2012

FAO Food Price Index up 6 percent

9 August 2012, Rome - The FAO Food Price Index climbed 6 percent in July 2012 after three months of decline. The Index, which measures the monthly change in the...
13 Aug 2012

(IRIN) FOOD: Another crisis coming?

JOHANNESBURG, 12 July 2012 (IRIN) - In the Russian summer of 2010, the worst drought recorded in 38 years destroyed its wheat crops, sending the world into another food-price crisis,...
12 Jul 2012

IRIN News about Horn of Africa

NAIROBI, 18 May 2011 (IRIN) - The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa could increase sharply in coming months due to below-average rainfall and high...
16 May 2012