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The fast recovery and protection from loss and damages that access to climate risk insurance can provide helps countries and households to better manage the impacts of the climate crisis, which is why WFP is advancing financial protection as one avenue for building resilience to extreme weather events. Given that women are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and tend to be more fo

Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint music from a nearby house – the tail end of a wedding party – and the darkness by a single light. Mec Sinat is already at work beneath her house which sits on stilts.

What would happen if the guns were silenced and violence suddenly stopped?  To mark the International Day of Peace, we posed that question to WFP country directors in Ukraine, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – three nations where unrest has deepened hunger and smashed lives and futures.  Here are their thoughts about the paybacks of peace. UKRAINE: WFP

Recognizing the pivotal role of Homegrown School Feeding in human capital development and economic growth, ECOWAS practitioners and partners commit to position HGSF prominently on the regional and Africa-wide agendas.

Growing up in northern Kenya, Paul Tergat and his family often lacked enough food for even just one simple meal a day. As a result, he rarely attended school: he just didn’t have the energy to make the three-mile journey there from his home in the drought-prone Baringo county.

School N3 in Vanadzor won the competition that WFP, together with partners, launched in April to generate interest in setting up school gardens across the country. The school came in first for their ability to use the garden as an education platform as well as involving the children in planning, maintaining and nurturing the garden.

Starting next week, schools across the Bhutan will be opening their doors to children returning after an extended winter break, all having received their COVID-19 vaccines.  For more than 100,000 children, this means getting at least one nutritious meal from their school kitchens, sourced from local farmers.

Coronavirus may push an additional 10 million of the world’s children into acute malnutrition.

In the Sechura desert, on Peru’s northern coast, several hours away from the main roads, hundreds of families survive hand-to-mouth. Drinking water is unavailable, and nutritious food is scarce – and expensive.