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The LoU aims to bolster the capacity to respond to emergencies and effectively foster investment in agricultural entrepreneurship.

The global food crisis is a confluence of competing crises – caused by climate shocks, conflict, and economic pressures – that has pushed the number of hungry people around the world from 282 million to 345 million in just the first months of 2022.

“This latest support from the UK is helping WFP to reach more than two million food-insecure people across Afghanistan through the harsh winter,” said UK Minister of State for Middle East, South Asia and the UN Lord (Tariq) Ahmad.

“The world is shaken by compounding crises. The fallout of the war in Ukraine is adding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that now enters its third year, while climate change and increased fragility and conflict pose persistent harm to people around the globe.

WFP is rapidly mobilizing to scale up assistance inside Gaza once safe access is granted.

Asma Khan has long been a dedicated supporter of WFP and its causes. Asma advocated for WFP’s Women are Hungrier campaign, to draw attention to the central role women’s empowerment plays in ending hunger and transforming communities.

“We were in our town, doing our jobs, when we heard a huge explosion and started to flee to the Sudanese border. The event was abrupt, and no one even has money in their pockets.

You can help families in Gaza. DONATE NOW   Tuesday 24 October It’s already day 18 of this brutal war that has stripped away the life we love. I wish I could say my family and I have made it through so far – but have we really, if our loved ones were killed along the way? These past 18 days feel more like 18 years.