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Urea. Commodity prices. Soybeans. Wheat. Maize. Copper. During 2022 and 2023 there were food crises in several regions as indicated by rising food prices. In 2022, the world experienced significant food price inflation along with major food shortages in several regions. Sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Iraq were most affected.
Livestock trends in ASALs between 1977 and 2016 show cattle declined by 26.5%, while sheep and goats increase by 76% and camels by 13.3%. Climate change could result in the loss of 52% of the ASAL cattle population (or 1.7 million cattle) at a cost of US$340–680 million to the economy.
ReliefWeb ( RW) is a humanitarian information portal founded in 1996. As of July 2023, it hosts more than one million humanitarian situation reports, press releases, evaluations, guidelines, assessments, maps and infographics. [1] The portal is an independent source of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian ...
Politics of Kenya. General elections were held in Kenya on Tuesday, 9 August 2022. Voters elected the president, governors, senators, members of the National Assembly, and members of county assemblies. This was the third general election and the fourth presidential one since the promulgation of the 2010 constitution.
Acted was created in 1993, in Afghanistan, by Marie-Pierre Caley and Frederic Roussel. [5] First, the organization used mapping to support local humanitarian actors in order to better understand territorial solidarity. The Afghan humanitarian crisis pushes the organization to start its own humanitarian actions.
This is a list of development aid agencies which provide regional and international development aid or assistance, divided between national (mainly OECD countries) and international organizations.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters. [1] It is the successor to the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator ( UNDRO ).
Most of Kenya's electricity is generated by renewable energy sources. [1] Access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is one of the 17 main goals of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. [2] Development of the energy sector is also critical to help Kenya achieve the goals in Kenya Vision 2030 to become a newly ...