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WORLD’S FIRST HUMANITARIAN INSURANCE POLICY ISSUED ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that AXA RE has been awarded the world’s first insurance contract for humanitarian emergencies. The contract provides US $7 million in contingency funding in a pilot scheme to provide coverage in the case of an extreme drought during Ethiopia’s 2006 agricultural season.
BEIRUT - Lebanon will soon be food secure again and its commercial sector is bouncing back quicker than expected, paving the way for the withdrawal of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) from the country by the end of October, according to a WFP food assessment and nutrition report issued today.
HIV/AIDS AGGRAVATES CHRONIC HUNGER DESPITE BETTER HARVESTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people would remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS.
中米3カ国（エルサルバドル、グアテマラ、ホンジュラス）の数千世帯を対象とした独自の調査をもとに、米州開発銀行（IDB）と米州機構（OAS）の支援を受け、移民政策研究所（MPI）、国連世界食糧計画（国連WFP）、マサチューセッツ工科大学（MIT）の市民データデザインラボ（Civic Data Design Lab）が共同で報告書を作成しました。
対面式の調査とオンライン調査によって収集されたデータによると、国際的な移住を検討した人の割合は、わずか2年間で5倍以上増加し、2019年の8％から、2021年には43％になっています。しかし、実際に移住の具体的な計画を立てた人は、わずか3％に過ぎません。その理由として、家族離散や移住にかかるコストの高さが挙げられています。
