The rice import dependency in Timor-Leste means that changes in international rice prices directly affect domestic prices. This short bulletin outlines the factors impacting rice price increases, provides a snapshot of the main Asian rice markets, and sets out key recommendations for action to mitigate the rice price increase factors on the people of Timor-Leste.
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WFP is working tirelessly to get aid into the hands of people who are facing starvation, and we are saving thousands of lives every single day in Sudan. So far this year, we’ve supported 5.4 million people with life-saving food and nutrition assistance. As we speak, we are urgently getting basic staple foods into the hands of 180,000 people facing famine in Zamzam camp.
The visit underscores substantial investments in the country from the Governments of France and Germany and their ongoing partnership with the Government of Lao PDR and WFP, particularly focusing on women's empowerment amid deteriorating food security conditions.
Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999.
She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school.
“We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.
Highlights of the WFP and EU partnership in 2023. Find out about our work together as we save lives and build better futures for communities around the globe.
NAIROBI/GENEVA: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the news that the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan will be opened, as the aid agency is in a race against time to save lives in war-torn Sudan.