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.
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.
While global attention remains fixated on Ukraine, a hidden hunger emergency is engulfing South Sudan with about 8.3 million people in South Sudan – including refugees – set to face extreme hunger in the coming months as the 2022 lean season peaks, food becomes scarce and provisions are depleted, according to the latest findings published in the 2022 Humanitarian Needs Overview.
Before the deadly earthquakes on its border with Türkiye, in February, Syria was a largely forgotten crisis – now, as the country marks 12 years of conflict, the unprecedented hardships people continue to face there are thrown into sharp relief.
More than half of Syria’s population, or 12.1 million people, are food-insecure with a further 2.9 million on the brink of food ins
The sharing of expertise that connects farmers to technology has been vital to support business development through e-commerce. China-Aid Agricultural Technology and Demonstration Centre led the exchange in partnership with Knowledge Transfer Africa (eMkambo), supporting up to 500 smallholder farmers with marketing and horticulture training.
More than a decade after the 2011 Arab Spring and the subsequent civil war in Libya, years of political instability have left the country in a fragile state of transition to peace and stability.
WFP’s food price monitoring shows that food prices are trending upwards in some urban areas with the retail price of palm oil up 20 percent since the start of February in the peri-urban areas of the main city Yangon, and rice prices in the peri-urban areas of Yangon and Mandalay also up 4 percent since the last week of February.
Across the country, the cost of rice showed an average increase of
PORT-AU-PRINCE – The heads of UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) ended missions to Haiti today, calling for far more support for highly vulnerable children and families who face rampant violence, deadly natural disasters, and a resurgence of cholera.
“Haiti’s hunger crisis is unseen, unheard, and unaddressed.
The MoU was signed between WFP India Representative and Country Director Mr. Bishow Parajuli and Director Isha Outreach Ms. Moumita Sen Sarma in the national capital on 21st February.
“Every responsible scientist in the world and the UN agencies are clearly saying we have 80-100 harvests left, that means approximately 45-50 years of agricultural soil left on the planet.
