SFHC on the seed hunt

Sep 12, 2023

Our dedicated team can be seen carefully grading seeds, a crucial step in our efforts to support our fellow farmers. Due to extreme weather conditions such as either drought or excessive rainfall this year, many crops have suffered, making it difficult for our farmers...

Regional Integrated Food Security Initiatives Respond to El Niño

Aug 3, 2023

It is official: the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)announcedthe beginning of the global climate heating event El Niño on July 4, which means that extreme weather events will affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people on all continents from now...

From seeds to solar power in Madagascar: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

Jul 6, 2023

“Since my arrival in Madagascar as the UN Resident Coordinator at the end of 2020, the country has been hit by unprecedented cyclones and experienced the most severe drought in 40 years. Coupled with other extreme weather events, the drought caused widespread hunger...

Global Report on Food Crises 2023: Global Hunger on the rise again

Jun 9, 2023

An alarming new report has shown that global hunger is on the rise for a second successive year.  The 2023 Global Report on Food Crises found that in 2022, over 258 million people in 58 countries and territories around the world experienced a level of acute food...