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“We’re providing mainly hot meals, ready-to-eat food rations and family food packages -- things that require no cooking facilities and can be consumed immediately,” said WFP Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Corinne Fleischer.

"I refused for a long time," says Jenny Pearce, a political scientist at the London School of Economics specialising in Latin America, when I ask if she's ever watched the Netflix series Narcos. One weekend at a friend's house in Mexico, with little to do one evening but watch TV, however, and the peace scholar — an expert on ‘violences' in the region — bit the bullet. "I have to say, I

More women in positions of leadership  Around 110 heads of state attended COP27. Yet only seven of those were women.  Gender equality is important in all forms of leadership but particularly in relation to climate change as women are disproportionately affected by climate impacts.

This report presents findings from the PAB (pre-assistance baseline) data that was collected from June to December 2015.

“Communities in Mali contribute very little to the climate crisis, yet the impacts are forcing them into a food crisis,” says Eric Perdison, WFP Country Director in Mali.

“If we want to break out of the never-ending cycle of crisis and response, we need to address the root causes of hunger by multi-year, long-term projects that shield communities from the impacts of the climate crisis,” said Volli Carucci, WFP’s Head of Resilience and Food Systems. Reducing humanitarian need is just as important as responding to humanitarian emergencies, noted Carucci.

Their call comes ahead of the COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace which will seek transformative measures on the frontlines of the climate crisis and will be officially launched on 3 December at COP28.    The Global Stocktake, the first report card on the Paris Agreement, has shown that the world is coming dangerously close to permanently passing the critical 1.5°

As measures to slow the spread of coronavirus come into force, making face-to-face training in a classroom impossible, the World Food Programme is continuing its flagship culinary training programme in Turkey online. Our team in the country, which trains both Turkish nationals and Syrian refugees, needed a quick solution to keep its principal vocational training project from being derailed

Under this agreement, WFP will receive US$20 million from Germany and the United Kingdom through the World Bank’s Global Shield Financing Facility.

“Many of the world’s most fragile countries, ravaged by conflict, instability, and poverty, are those most impacted by climate change. The climate crisis doesn’t have to be a hunger crisis, but that’s exactly what’s happening,” said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain.