Africa agriculture trade monitor 2021
African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural problems as well as exogenous shocks. Against this
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Briefing Paper: Supporting Safe Education in the Central Sahel (September 2020)
<p>Supporting Safe Education in the Central Sahel noted over 85 attacks on education in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger between January and July 2020, despite Covid-19-related school closures between late
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Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction: 2019 Annual Report
<p>167.6 million people were estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2020—a number expected to have increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the highest reported figure in decades. Refugee
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Double burden to double duty: policy implications of double-duty actions to address the full spectrum of malnutrition
This publication provides a summary of a technical consultation on the double burden of malnutrition, discussing policy implications and double-duty actions to be taken. This publication by the WHO, in
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Africa agriculture trade monitor 2020
The 2020 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, the third in this series of flagship reports, presents an overview of trade in agriculture products in Africa and highlights the main impediments that affect
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Hunger, COVID-19 and the Indian Administrative state
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on face-to-face interactions and the movement of persons (the ‘lockdowns’) produced a widespread crisis of hunger, felt most acutely by migrant workers
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How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change? Opportunities for innovation in livestock systems
Progress towards Zero Hunger must be protected from the dual challenges of pandemics and climate change. The frequency of infectious disease outbreaks – including the emergence of novel viruses and zoonotic
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Rebounding from COVID-19: MENA perspectives on resilience in manufacturing and supply systems
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to disrupt both manufacturing and global supply chains. Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have responded quickly by restricting the movement
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Impact of Covid-19 on Indian Economy: An Analysis of Fiscal Scenarios
<p>Amidst the economic slowdown triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in India there have been many demands for the government to announce a large fiscal stimulus to support the economy. Economic
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Rights in a pandemic – Lockdowns, rights and lessons from HIV in the early response to COVID-19
<p>With 1.7 million new infections in 2019 and 38 million people living with HIV worldwide, we are living in a time of two parallel pandemics. The protection and promotion of human rights has been central
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Guidance note on Bi-directional TB-COVID screening and screening of TB among ILI/SARI cases
<p>All COVID-19 cases should be screened for TB symptoms using the 4-symptom complex (Cough for > 2 weeks, persistent fever for > 2 weeks, significant weight loss, night sweats), history of contact
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Long-stay mental health care institutions and the COVID-19 crisis: identifying and addressing the challenges for better response and preparedness
<p>This report presents the results of a survey conducted by the Mental Health Programme, WHO Regional Office for Europe, with 169 long-stay institutions in the WHO European Region to assess the impact
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COVID-19 And Agriculture: A Story Of Resilience
<p>The COVID-19 outbreak and its rapid spread caught many governments and agricultural producers by surprise, prompting immediate policy responses by WTO members. Many of the initial measures were expected
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Policy Brief: COVID-19 and Transforming Tourism
<p>Tourism provides livelihoods for millions of people and allows billions more to appreciate their own and different cultures, as well as the natural world. For some countries, it can represent over 20
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Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services
<p>Understanding the current status of violence prevention and response services is therefore essential to assessing risks to children. The report documents what has happened to such services across the
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Situation analysis: Covid-19, wildlife trade, and consumer engagement
TRAFFIC is working in partnership with IUCN through the USAID Wildlife TRAPS Project to explore how social and behavioural change could play a part in motivating people towards choosing safer and more
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COVID-19 and Indigenous Forest Communities: untold stories from the Congo Basin
<p>Cameroon's indigenous peoples make up about 0.4% of its population. With approximately 40,000 people, the Baka is the largest among them. For many decades, Baka have been moving instead to roadside
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Capturing the digital economy: a proposed measurement framework and its applications
Amid the growing interest in the digitalization of socioeconomic activities, there is a lack of consensus on an established framework to estimate the digital economy. This special supplement of Key Indicators
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People’s livelihood and cities: building back greener
The 26th edition of UNEP’s Foresight Brief explains the ‘build back better’ strategy in the context of urban livelihoods - a strategy, that has to mean ’building back greener’. The livelihoods of urban
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Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are widespread at the July/August peak of the lean season, July 2020
<p>The scale and severity of acute food insecurity continue to rise at the July/August peak of the lean season in South Sudan. Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are widespread, indicating that a high proportion