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“We truly are in an unprecedented crisis. Food pricing is our number one problem right now, as a result of all this perfect storm for 2022. But by 2023 it very well will be a food availability problem.

“The European Union’s priority in Afghanistan is life-saving assistance at times when hunger haunts millions of people across the country”, said François Goemans, who oversees EU humanitarian aid operations in Afghanistan, “Severe drought conditions and the economic crisis push families both in rural areas and in cities to the brink.

The evaluation covers Kenya SDG joint programme for social protection that was implemented between January 2020 - September 2022. It was carried out in 2022/2023 and covered the following activities: a) Capacity strengthening and b) social protection.   The evaluation has had the dual objectives of accountability and learning.

The arrival of the first trucks in Gaza is a first step towards a food lifeline for the hundreds of thousands of people facing desperate conditions. But much more access and assistance is urgently needed, and the flow of supplies needs to be scaled up radically.

Escalating violence has led to mass displacements within Lebanon, requiring WFP to scale up its emergency food assistance to reach up to one million people. WFP was well prepared and is already providing hot meals, ready-to-eat rations, food parcels and cash assistance daily to nearly 160,000 people in shelters.

WFP reached a record 12.4 million food-insecure people with food assistance in August. Yemen is a deeply complex and volatile operating environment. Despite the many challenges, WFP continues to expand its assistance across the country to prevent a further deterioration in the precarious food insecurity situation. Yemen remains the largest food security crisis in the world.

As part of the visit, Wilcock travelled to Rathnapura, where she spoke with food-insecure families faced with high food prices and unemployment.

The pungent smell of boiling beans and burning ugali (maize meal) wafting through the corridors is one I can recall from my days growing up in a government boarding school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital.  At times, the smell would change to boiling cabbage and burning rice.