Urgent humanitarian assistance is needed in Namibia as the impact and effects of drought worsen, leaving people struggling to find food, suffering from malnutrition and selling their assets just to survive.
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The short animation explains what the Food Security Cluster is about: coordinating the food security response during a humanitarian crisis.
Food Security Cluster: Strengthening Humanitarian Response Read More »
Swiss Re believes that the “Partnering for food security” narrative can play a pivotal role in helping to build a more resilient society. To communicate this complex topic in an understandable way we have adopted an animated, story-telling approach. The film provides a taste of the challenges associated with food security, food safety, food waste…
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Why are some communities more vulnerable to hunger and famine? There are many reasons, which together add up to food insecurity, the world’s no.1 health risk. Watch this video from the British Red Cross Seeds of Change campaign to find out what food insecurity is, and what we can do about it.To find out more,
Food security plays vital role in improving the livelihood of people. It is one of the main sources of nutritional welfare, a guarantee of good health as well as a factor in reducing poverty. Improved food production along with increased incomes allows communities to reduce the impact of crises that could fall on them. The
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A Grantham Special Lecture by Professor Martin Parry, Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London Climate change could lead to hundreds of millions of people being at risk of hunger by the middle of this century. This is in addition to the billion or so currently at risk. Several new studies are
Climate change and global food security Read More »
Second episode on how Uganda Red Cross helped to tackle food insecurity. Uganda is affected by drought and the necessity to give trainings to people on how to reuse natural resources.
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Charles Godfray is Hope Professor at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In this talk he explores the challenge we face in feeding the earth’s growing population
Video on how Uganda Red Cross helped to tackle food insecurity (Ep 1).
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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently
Achieving Food Security: Guy M Poppy at TEDxSouthamptonUniversity Read More »