Showing posts with label World Food Programme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Food Programme. Show all posts

Monday, 17 October 2016

World Food Day: Oxfam empowers over 4,000 Benue female farmers

An International Development Organisation, Oxfam, has implemented a village savings and loans initiative for women farmers in seven local government areas in Benue.

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

14 million people in Southern Africa face hunger due to drought-- UN agency

The World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that 14 million people were facing hunger in Southern Africa due to prolonged dry spells that led to a poor harvest last year.
UN Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said on Tuesday in New York at a daily briefing that El Nino global weather event was leading to even worse drought across the region and was already affecting this year's crop