Rapports

Afghanistan MUSHROOMS ADDRESS ISSUES OF FOOD SECURITY The food security situation has much improved thanks to good harvests this year, but pockets of food insecurity are predicted among poor households who lost livestock last year in northern Badakhshan…

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES Joint assessment team reported that floods destroyed agricultural farms for 127 families and partially damaged five houses in Tirin Kot district of Uruzgan. Save the Children assisted the affected families with127 hygiene kits in Tirin…

Wheat is the staple food for most Afghans, comprising more than 70 percent of their diet. Low-quality rice is a poor, but sometimes necessary, substitute. All markets represent significant population centers and consumer markets. Kabul, the…

Main highlights: Average wheat grain retail prices were on decreasing trend since July 2011 and continued until July 2012, however an increasing trend started from August through October 2012. On the international market, a decreasing trend of…

Abstract Afghanistan is in a state of transition which involves the handover of security responsibilities from international forces to the Afghan government. However, at present, Afghanistan's economy is growing strongly as a result of an exceptionally good…

Chronic conflict, earthquakes, recurrent seasonal storms, floods, droughts, and severe winter weather, as well as limited government response capacity, present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in South Asia. Between Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 and FY 2012, USAID’s Office of…

“Pounds of Prevention” is a series of short articles that illustrate how disaster risk reduction works and why it is important. Take a behind-the-scenes look at aid work in action, long before the disaster occurs. How…

KEY MESSAGES With market and household stocks from the well above average May to August wheat harvest, above average livestock prices, and higher than average labor wages, both food availability and households’ economic access to food have…

HIGHLIGHTS 1,386 shelling impacts recorded 17,766 individuals (2,875 families) were recorded as displaced due to conflict 34% of households surveyed in 22 provinces are food insecure 17 reported humanitarian access-related incidents Afghanistan receives US$ $10 million from CERF

Asia leads in hunger, more work needed on stunting Asia and the Pacific remain home to the largest share of the world’s hungry and undernourished, with more than 532 million people in the region lacking adequate food,…