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UN: 350 million people near starvation across 40 countries - #84
United Nations officials released a statement this week that said food shortages were going from bad to worse. They attributed the increase in scarcity to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate emergencies. Just one example in a litany of contributing climate factors is the current state of affairs in India. Experiencing unprecedented heat, India banned wheat exports a few months ago. The United Nations has warned similar conditions are likely to decrease crop production 30% by 2025.
According to the World Food Programme, roughly 50 million people across over 40 countries are already on the verge of famine. Nearly 350 million people endure near-starvation conditions, a number that is up 25% since the start of the year.
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★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the World Food Program to Effectively Feed a Country - MBM #26
Jean Martin Bauer is the Country Director for the World Food Programme in Haiti, where his job is in simple terms to ensure the population does not run out of food. This conversation focuses on the use of data - specifically satellite imagery & maps - and how it helps feed the country.
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About Jean-Martin:
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Shownotes:
- World Food Program
- Hunger Map
- WFP’s Prism
- WFP’s Van Project
- FEWS NET: Famine Early Warning System Network
- Stanford’s Monica Lam
- Jean-Martin Bauer on the Humanitarian AI Today Podcast
Books & Podcasts Recommendations:
- Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain (”Gouverneurs de la rosée” in French)
- Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System by Raj Patel
- Humanitarian AI Today Podcast
Time-stamps:
- 00:00 Introduction 01:53 Conversation Starts: Jean-Martin presents himself
- 03:08 Humanitarian Geography
- 10:31 Jean-Martin's current role: WFP's Haiti Director
- 16:39 How do we know the food situation in a country?
- 21:10 Gathering Data To Understand the Food Situation in a Country
- 26:18 Modelling at a Global & Local level
- 31:03 Distributing Data is also hard
- 32:14 Getting people involved
- 35:56 Online Human Rights
- 40:34 What New Space means for WFP
- 45:21 What's in it for Private Companies to work wit NGOs?
- 48:57 Building Trust when Predictions come First from Machine Learning
- 52:25 Disruption is Not Always the Goal
- 53:32 Financing Collecting Data in the Humanitarian World
- 01:01:19 The Role of Data for Jean-Martin's role as Country Director
- 01:05:56 Making Hard Decision when Numbers represent real People's Livelihood
- 01:09:58 Jean-Martin's Critical Look on the Data Science Community
- 01:14:19 Books & Podcast Recommendations
- 01:17:16 Outro
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Nepal bites into ambitious school meals programme
That is the sound of hundreds of students at Tilingatar High School in Tokha Municipality lining up for their midday meal of rice and veggies. This still unfinished concrete school of 1,100 students on the urban edge of the Kathmandu Valley is one among tens of thousands of government schools country wide that serve hot meals to their students. In two more years the midday meal programme (known here as diya khaja) will feed children in all 77 districts, after the remaining 6 districts transition from meals provided by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). This is no small feat, nor cheap. From 2017 to 2020 the diya khaja budget almost quadrupled (from $20 million to nearly $70 million). After teachers’ salaries, this is the largest education expense in Nepal.
In March I travelled to the Far West region and visited five schools in both the hills and the Tarai plains. Unanimously I found that officials and parents liked the government’s school feeding. It made students excited about going to class and provided some of them with their most healthy meal of the day.
I'm not saying there are no challenges: some schools and the municipal governments that transfer the money to them to run the programme — budgeted by the central government — say that providing 15 rupees per child per meal just isn’t enough, when they also have to pay for cooks, utensils and transportation. And media reports appear regularly about low quality food in a certain school or of officials substituting processed food for the nutrition-based menu created by the ministry of education and WFP. Surprisingly, neither the government nor the UN agency has analysed the impact of school feeding on child nutrition in Nepal, a country where malnutrition remains a major health problem.
That said, schools and municipalities are forging ahead with diya khaja. In the fertile outskirts of Kailali district — with the help of the WFP — schools are contracting local women farmers to provide rice, lentils, milk, yogurt and almost every other ingredient needed for their menus fresh from their fields. And here in Tokha, the municipality has itself expanded school feeding beyond grade 5, the last year of the government programme, to grade 10.
Resources
Article and video on school feeding in Nepal
Article on school meals in Nepal and Canada
World Food Programme global report, with Nepal case study
Nepal Now social links
Thanks as always to Nikunja Nepal for advice and inspiration.
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Bernhard Kowatsch on Transformative Food Innovation
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95: إنقاذ الأرواح وتغيير الحياة مع رود الحلبي
في حلقة هذا الأسبوع هدرزت مع رَود الحلبي. المدير القُطري لمكتب ليبيا في برنامج الاغذية العالمي للامم المتحدة.
رود ام لثلاث اشخاص مميزين جداً.
اكيد تكلمنا على الفترة الصعبة اللي مرت بيها في سوريا وتحدي بعدها عن اهلها. والشوق لبيتها والاحلام اللي كانت تخطط لها.
اول مرة نتقابل مع شخص مهووس بالمؤسسة
اللي يشتغل فيها بنفس كمية هوس رود.
في التهدريزة فصلت معنى "انقاذ الارواح وتغيير الحياة"
اللي هو الهدف الاساسي من وراء WFP ومشاريعها الي تبدا من توصيل الاغذية الاساسية لاكثر من 100,000 شخص شهريا.
الخط الساخن اللي 1404 اللي يستقبل اكثر من 3800 مكالمة شهريا
يتم فيها معالجة الاستفسارات والاحتياجات الطارئة
بما فيها الاستعلام على مراكز التعامل مع الكورونا.
وحتى مشروع يركز على تحسين النظام الغذائي
للاطفال في المدارس. المشروع يستهدف 40,000 الف طالب
بداية من يناير 2022
التهدريزة فيها تفاصيل هلبا مميزة وتحفزك وتغير تفكيرك وجوك.
انا متمحس،
انتو واتيين؟ يلا نبدو!
أم و منسق مكتب ليبيا لبرنامج الأغذية العالمي و تشتغل في مبادرات مختلفة ، واحد منها تشمل برنامج الغذاء في المدارس.
لو تبي تعرف اكثر عن مهمة برنامج الأغذية العالمي ، تقدر تتطلع من الروابط هذه المذكورة خلال الحلقة:
للقيام بأعمال تجارية مع برنامج الأغذية العالمي:
https://www.wfp.org/countries/libya
لمعرفة المزيد عن التغذية التي يقدمها برنامج الأغذية العالمي:
https://www.wfp.org/countries/libya
لمعرفة المزيد عن مركز الخط الساخن:
https://www.wfp.org/countries/libya
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Für die Welthungerkrise ist selbst Musk zu arm
Mehr als 800 Millionen Menschen gelten weltweit als chronisch unterernährt. Um ihnen zu helfen, nervt der Chef des Welternährungsprogramms auf Twitter einen Mega-Reichen: Tesla-Chef Musk gibt nach, verlangt aber eine Rechnung, die nur teilweise aufgehen kann. Für die globale Hungerkrise ist selbst der reichste Mensch der Welt zu arm.
Mit Mathias Mogge, Generalsekretär der Welthungerhilfe
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Kristina Gill on Big Issues and Small Gestures
Kristina Gill is a Nashville-born food and travel photographer and cookbook author who lives and works in Rome. In addition to her award-winning creative work in food, she is also a humanitarian advisor and supports the United Nations' World Food Programme.
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The Lancet: October 30, 2009
Rhona MacDonald discusses the world food crisis and its impact on global health.
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