Do you know about FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network?

Organisation:

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network

 

From the About Us webpage:

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a leading provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity around the world.  

 

Created in 1985 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in response to devastating famines in East and West Africa, FEWS NET provides unbiased, evidence-based analysis to governments and relief agencies who plan for and respond to humanitarian crises. FEWS NET analyses support resilience and development programming as well. FEWS NET analysts and specialists work with scientists, government ministries, international agencies, and NGOs to track and publicly report on conditions in the world’s most food-insecure countries.

 

This organisation reports on:

* Monthly reports and maps detailing current and projected food insecurity 

 

* Alerts on emerging or likely crises 

 

* Special reports on factors that contribute to or mitigate food insecurity, including weather and climate, markets and trade, agricultural production, conflict, livelihoods, nutrition, and humanitarian assistance 

 

* Access to data, learning, and analysis of the underlying dynamics of recurrent and chronic food insecurity and poor nutritional outcomes, to improve early warning and better inform response and program design 

Click here for the FEWS NET website

 

LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN - The pandemic is hindering access and retention in Higher Education by María Elena Hurtado

Title:

The pandemic is hindering access and retention in HE

 

Author:

María Elena Hurtado

Published:

University World News, 21 November 2020

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201121101510828

From the article:

“We still have a long road to travel before having universal access to higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is despite the fact that access has more than doubled in two decades from a gross rate of 23% in 2000 to 53% in 2018.”  

 

This statement by Francesc Pedró, director of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, was the parting shot of the conference “Inequalities in Access to Higher Education by Disadvantaged Populations in the Latin American and Caribbean Region in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

See also:

Access of the most disadvantaged to higher education is a challenge to face in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Published:

IESALC, UNESCO, 19 November 2020

https://www.iesalc.unesco.org/en/2020/11/19/access-of-the-most-disadvantaged-to-higher-education-is-a-challenge-to-face-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/