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Conflicts drag down food security amid growing global food output FAO report notes rebounding harvests in most low-income food-deficit countries 21 September 2017, Rome-- Robust harvests in Latin America and rebounding agricultural conditions in Southern Africa are on course to improve the global food supply situation, but ongoing civil conflicts and climate-related shocks are affecting progress towards hunger reduction, according to the new edition of FAO's Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. Hurricanes in the Caribbean and floods in West Africa are likely to hamper local farm outputs, but broader food production trends are positive, buoyed by expectations of record cereal outputs in several countries. Some 37 countries, 28 of which are in Africa, require external assistance for food, according to the quarterly report. The countries - Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe - are unchanged from June. Conflict continues to intensely impact agriculture and food security in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, northern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and often have further effects - due to displaced persons and increased civil insecurity - elsewhere. Weather shocks in 2017, including droughts, have also compounded the impacts in some countries, notably Somalia and southern Ethiopia. Rebounding from El Niño Global cereal production is forecast to reach a record level in 2017, pegged at 2 611 million tonnes. While this is due to major gains in Argentina and Brazil, also of note is the expected rise in aggregate output in Africa by more than 10 percent this year, led by increasing maize harvests in Southern Africa, where farmers were hit hard last year by the El Nino weather phenomenon, and wheat output in North African countries. Aggregate cereal production in Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is also expected to rise by 2.2 percent this year, curbing import needs, according to FAO's new estimates.
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कोलम्बस । अमेरिकाको ओहायो राज्यको कोलम्बसमा आयोजित वार्षिक युवा सम्मेलनमा नेपाली-भाषी बालबालिका तथा किशोर-किशोरीले उल्लेख्य सहभागिता जनाएका छन् । शुक्रबार सम्पन्न उक्त सम्मेलनमा करिब ३ सय सहभागिमध्ये ६५ जना नेपाली-भाषी बालबालिका तथा किशोर-किशोरी थिए । वर्खे बिदामा आयोजित शिविर शैलीको यो सम्मेलन स्थानीय इटिएसएस (इथियोपियन टेवाहेडो सोसल सर्भिसेस) नामक संस्थाले ओहायो डोमिनिकन युनिभर्सिटीमा गरेको थियो । सम्मेलनमा ५-२४ वर्ष समूहका बालबालिका तथा किशोर-किशोरी सहभागि थिए । फरक संस्कृति तथा पृष्ठभूमीका बालबालिका तथा किशोर-किशोरीलाई घुलमिल हुन र एक-अर्कालाई बुझ्ने अवसर दिन सम्मेलन गरिएको स्थानीय निर्मला अधिकारीले बताउनुभयो । सम्मेलन फरक देशका नानीहरूले आफ्नो प्रतिभा प्रदर्शन गरेका थिए । इटिएसएस नामक संस्थाले भूटान, बर्मा, बुरूण्डी, क्यामरून, कम्बोडिया, कंगो, डेमोक्रेटिक रिपब्लिक अफ कंगो, इजिप्ट, इरिट्रिया, इथियोपिया, घाना, गिनी, हैटी, इरान, इराक, आइभोरी कोस्ट, जोर्डन, लाओस, मेक्सिको, मोरक्को, मौरिटानिया, प्यालेस्टाइन, पुअर्टो रिको, रूवान्डा, सेनेगल, सोमालिया, श्रीलंका, सुडान, दक्षिण सुडान, सिरिया, तान्जानिया र युक्रेनका आप्रवासी / शरणार्थीको सेवा गर्दै आएको छ ।