Rapports

HIGHLIGHTS Food purchasing power of households decreased in both rural and urban areas on a month-on-month basis because the drop in unskilled wage rates outweighed stable and increasing rice prices. Retail price of lowest quality rice slightly decreased…

The current floods in Cambodia, which have affected more than 50,000 families and destroyed 20,000 hectares of crops, or even tropical storm 12-E in Nicaragua, which has caused floods, landslides, considerable destruction of housing, social and…

REACHING OUT TO THE VICTIMS WHOSE FARMLANDS HAVE BEEN STRUCK HARD AAR JAPAN has been continuing its emergency relief activities in response to the flooding in Cambodia. Specifically targeting those who had not received assistance yet from…

WFP Cambodia’s Food for Assets (FFA) programme helps poor, food-insecure households to cope with potential disaster by providing off-season labour opportunities to develop or rehabilitate community assets, in return for much-needed food. WFP’s Polly Egerton visited…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – At the conclusion of the 4th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit today, leaders of the six nations that share the Mekong River agreed on a new 10-year plan to boost growth, development and…

Executive Summary Severe flooding of the Mekong and Tonle Sap river basins and flash floods have affected 18 out of 24 provinces of Cambodia in the worst floods since 2000. The National Committee for Disaster Management of the…

We Have Delivered Food and Non-food Items to Approximately 750 Families AAR JAPAN has been engaging in emergency relief activities to support those affected by the floods in Cambodia. Following the first distribution on November 15th, we…

Executive Summary Background In 2008, an extraordinary price surge coursed through the world rice market, raising alarms over a world “food crisis.” Subsequently, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) approved the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) Framework.…

Tzu Chi volunteers on December 4 distributed rice, oil and other necessities to 888 needy households in the capital Phnom Penh; all live below the poverty line. Volunteers came from Singapore and Malaysia and were joined…

By Linda Espenshade Dec. 7, 2011 AKRON, Pa. -- As the worst flooding in a decade begins to recede in Cambodia, the work of obtaining food and clean water and the long-term rebuilding of livelihoods is underway with…