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    • Asma Begum (37) and her husband Abdul with their three daughters Lamia (18), Sadia (16) and Maria (5) and their grandmother Kulsum Begum (72) started CRAAIN in 2020. Asma Begum started as a lead farmer, received training and seeds. Before, she did agri activities but wasn’t very successful. She had received one ring composter from the local gov but no training on how to use it. As a lead farmer, she has supported 400 households in this area. She used to rely on her husband but is now totally reliable.

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          A storm strikes on the island of Buthony, Unity State, South Sudan. The country’s problems with hunger due to prolonged conflict and displacement are exacerbated by severe recurring droughts and extreme rainy seasons. Photo: Welthungerhilfe/Andy Spyra, 2017
          News
          14 October 2019

          Can we feed the world and save the planet?

          For several decades hunger levels have been reducing globally. Yet, the last few years have seen an increase in the number of people going hungry, driven largely by conflict and climate change.
          Seven-year-old Davilla helps her aunty Claudia Batene prepare squash leaves for the family meal. The squash leaves are cultivated from seeds provided by Concern. The family also received groundnut, bean and sesame seeds, tools - including two machetes and a hoe - and farming skills. Photographer: Chris de Bode
          News
          28 May 2019

          World Hunger Day: Is sustainable progress possible?

          Today is World Hunger Day, a date deliberately put in the diary to remind us that despite living in an era of commercial space travel and artificial intelligence, preventable hunger still costs too many lives.
          Khayro Ali shares her traditional tukul home with her husband Ishmael and their four children in Filtu, Somali Region, Ethiopia. Photo: Jennifer Nolan/ Concern Worldwide
          News
          10 August 2018

          Ethiopia: All change or no change?

          Simon Starling, Head of Policy and Campaigns, reports on the challenges still facing Ethiopia despite being in the midst of some exciting changes
          Josephine Zawele, 45, in a farmer field school alongside other community members in Boganando. Farmers use the field school to learn new agricultural techniques which they can then replicate on their own land. Photographer: Chris de Bode
          News
          29 March 2018

          Ending hunger is possible, if we can cut conflict

          With hunger on the rise globally for the first time in 15 years Simon Starling, Director of Policy and Campaigns, explores it’s links with conflict and what can be done.
          Farah* attends a non-formal education programme in an informal settlement that focuses on early childhood education in Akkar, north Lebanon. Photo: Chantale Fahmi/Concern Worldwide.
          News
          10 June 2016

          We put our #HandsUpForHumanity, but world leaders didn’t deliver

          In May 2016 we launched our #HandsUpForHumanity campaign, showing how the British people are sick of seeing hospitals and schools bombed and food convoys to starving people blocked.