International Fund for Agricultural Development

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck the Vanuatu Islands early Tuesday morning, according to the National Centre of Seismology (NCS). The quake occurred at 7:17 AM Indian Standard Time (IST) at a depth of 10 kilometers. Its coordinates were recorded at Latitude 17.68 S and Longitude 168.03 E. The details were shared by the NCS on social media platform X.

Conflict, economic turbulence and extreme weather scuppered efforts to curb hunger last year, with around nine percent of the world's population affected, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday.

About 733 million people may have faced hunger in 2023, a level that has held steady for three years after a steep rise following the Covid-19 pandemic, they said in a report.

Development projects in Turkey supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have helped improve the incomes and quality of life of the rural poor, according to the findings of an independent evaluation, which were presented on Jan. 28 in Ankara by the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD.