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The floods hit West Africa as world leaders prepare to meet on the climate crisis at COP27 in Egypt and highlight the urgent need to help communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis adapt, expand solutions that address loss and damage incurred during climate-related disasters, and invest in climate action in fragile contexts. “Families in West Africa have already been pushed to the limi

The contribution will enable WFP to provide cash-based transfers and other support to smallholder farmers who are most at risk of food insecurity due to the crisis in nine countries facing down the threat of locusts: Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.   “ROK’s contribution comes at a time when WFP is facing an unprecedented increase in n

Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with families in pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of starvation and death according to the Hunger Hotspots report.  Although the majority of the affected countries are in Africa, acute hunger is due to rise steeply in most world regions - from Afghanistan i

Broadcast quality footage for this story available via this link   “High food prices are hunger’s new best friend. We already have conflict, climate and COVID-19 working together to push more people into hunger and misery. Now food prices have joined the deadly trio,” said WFP Chief Economist Arif Husain.

Bureaucratic obstacles as well as a lack of funding also hamper the two UN agencies’ efforts to provide emergency food assistance and enable farmers to plant at scale and at the right time.   This is of grave concern as conflict, the economic repercussions of COVID-19 and the climate crisis are expected to drive higher levels of acute food insecurity in 23 hunger hotspots over the next

WFP - together with humanitarian partners - has been assessing earthquake damage and the needs of families on the ground. The remote districts of Giyan and Barmal, Paktika province and Spera, Khost province are among the areas worst hit. In Barmal, more than 70 percent of homes were completely destroyed. At least 1,000 people have reportedly been killed, with 2,000 others injured.

Excerpts from ED David Beasley at High-Level Ministerial Event on Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan – Geneva, 13 Sept 2021 “14 million people – 1-in-3 – are marching to the brink of starvation – they don’t know where their next meal is.

With over 90 percent of families struggling to eat enough, and a growing humanitarian crisis across the country, aid agencies are scrambling to meet massive needs before it is too late, with the approaching winter likely to cut off parts of the country entirely, leaving millions of vulnerable Afghans with little to survive on. UNHAS flights – which are led by the United Nations World Food Progr

Only five percent of households in Afghanistan have enough to eat every day, according to recent surveys conducted by WFP, while half reported they had run out of food altogether at least once in the past two weeks. “The economic freefall in Afghanistan has been abrupt and unrelenting, adding to an already difficult situation, as the country grapples with a second severe drought in three years.

The ‘Hunger Hotspots – FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity’ report issued today calls for urgent humanitarian action in 20 ‘hunger hotspots’ where acute hunger is expected to worsen from June-September 2022 – to save lives and livelihoods, and prevent famine. The report warns that the war in Ukraine has exacerbated the already steadily rising food and energy prices worldwide, which