Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa are emerging from a devastating three-year drought, resulting in declining livestock productivity, animal deaths, food insecurity, and acute malnutrition. In a blog post for…

Attacks on aid workers in conflict zones have been on the rise since the late 1990s. More than 180 local aid workers have been killed since the start of the…

Gaza, Haiti, and Sudan currently face high levels of acute food insecurity. Despite past optimism about reducing or eradicating famines through infrastructure improvements and global humanitarian efforts, conflict remains a…

The UN’s hunger monitoring initiative, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), uses a five-tier system to determine whether a famine should be declared in a certain region. Most recently,…

Although water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions are commonly implemented as part of humanitarian response activities, multiple systematic reviews have noted gaps in their effectiveness. In a new paper published…