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It’s a Wednesday afternoon and Rasha has just finished closing the day’s flights between Damascus and her home city of Qamishli in Syria.

An MI-8 transport helicopter contracted by the WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) arrived in Beira on Wednesday to support rescue and relief operations – the first of three due there this week.   Broadcast quality footage available on request for accredited news organizations, please contact video@wfp.org

Does combining cash-based transfers with food assistance for assets support women’s autonomy? This brief summarizes the first pre-analysis plan from OEV’s “Cash-based transfers & Gender” impact evaluation window.

By 2050, climate change could cause a 20 percent increase in hunger and malnutrition.

The mud structures housing some of Nepal's poorest people never stood a chance – survivors of Friday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake, which killed 157 people in the country, are sleeping rough after their homes were destroyed. The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Nepal and partners in mobilizing relief supplies for families who find themselves suddenly without their hom

Some 5.7 million people have been displaced internally in the DRC (the highest in Africa). Of these, some 1.5 million people were displaced in 2022 alone.

The shipment – part of Ukraine's humanitarian 'Grain from Ukraine' initiative launched by President Zelensky – was made possible by the German Federal Foreign Office, which covered entire operating costs of EUR €15 million.

Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry in Afghanistan, WFP has warned today. For the first time, urban residents are suffering from food insecurity at similar rates to rural communities, which have been ravaged by drought twice in the past three years.

The World Food Programme in partnership with FEWS NET conducted a market assessment in August 2017 (the peak of the lean season) to provide evidence-based information to enable humanitarian actors gain updated insights into how well markets are functioning and recovering in north eastern Nigeria and the impact of cash-based interventions on the economy and also the conflict affected households.

The assessment has covered three Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Yobe state (Damaturu, Bade and Jakusko). The sample universe of the assessment was the populations who receive assistance from WFP (World Food Programme) in these LGAs. In total, 900 households were covered distributed in 13 communities in Damaturu, Jakusko and Bade in February 2018.