by Iftekhar Mahmud in Prothom Alo, Oct 16, 2023One in four people in the country are food insecure, and 46 per cent of the poor population is in this dire situation according to the data revealed in a survey report released this month by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The report, titled ‘Bangladesh Food Security Monitoring Report: May-August,’ was released on 3 October. According to the report, the increase in natural calamities in…
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by Ruwani Fonseka in The Morning, Feb 25, 2023World Food Programme (WFP), in its Country Brief for January 2023, notes that food insecurity remains at concerning levels in the face of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. However, as per the latest Household Food Security Survey for December 2022, 33% of households in Sri Lanka are food insecure, a decline from 37% in November, the document read further. The organization says 68% of households are resorting to…
by Najm us Saqib in The Nation, Jan 23, 2023……Is Pakistan a poor country? The answer is no. Look around and see if you come across anyone without a cell-phone. Somehow, food is available for everyone as there is no emerging food crisis. Secondly, the dreadful macroeconomic figures do not seem to correspond with those invisible but estimated figures of the informal economy. If society truly reflected the reported macroeconomic situation, you would already have…
Four in every 10 households in Sri Lanka experienced a reduction in their incomes from June to December 2022, and one in every two households are currently relying on negative coping mechanisms to cope with the lack of food or money to buy it, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) report said. In its response overview for the period of June to December 2022, the United Nations agency said the window of opportunity to support…