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The Year in Review highlights WFP’s work in 2019 to address a "perfect storm" as conflict, climate change and economic slumps were compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving millions needing our assistance and threatening to undo huge gains made in building resilience, sustainable livelihoods and stability in multiple countries.

This Quarterly Bulletin for WFP in India includes updates on the new partnership with the Government of Odisha to promote millets for fighting hunger and supporting climate-resilient livelihoods; progress around WFP’s support to the One Nation One Ration Card campaign which allows beneficiaries of the Targeted Public Distribution System to avail their entitlements anywhere in the country; and acti

Closing gender gaps in farm productivity and wages within agrifood systems could boost the global domestic product by 1 percent, representing nearly US$1 trillion, and decrease global food insecurity levels, leading to 45 million more people being food-secure, according to the 2023 FAO status of women in agrifood systems report. "Investing in women means investing in sustainable development.

Awash with early morning sun, Yankiel Vázquez’s seedling house is a green ocean of tender baby plants. Here, the farmer, who goes by Payo, grows tomatoes, peppers and cabbage until they are big enough to be planted in open fields. We are in the outskirts of Sagua la Grande, a town in central Villa Clara province, on Cuba’s Northern coast.

WFP Executive Director David Beasley on Thursday wrapped up a visit to drought-ravaged Somalia, where over seven million people – close to half the population – are acutely food insecure and 213,000 are already facing famine-like conditions.

“Conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks: the Horn of Africa region is facing multiple crises simultaneously.

Gunshots past midnight startle Nyaloka Puok wide awake. Confused, she wonders if fighting is breaking out in her village of Paguir, but another fear grips her as she remembers her community had agreed to use gunfire as a warning: the waters are coming. The 37-year-old single mother of four rolls off the cot onto the ground and scrambles out of her hut. The dyke has burst again.

Fast-depleting funds are forcing the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food and cash-for-food assistance for nearly half of the 5.5 million people it supports in Syria, from July.

The evaluation was commissioned to establish the baseline data for standard and custom outcome indicators in line with the approved Performance Monitoring Plan, and provide a situational analysis before the project begins, and the context necessary for the midterm and end-line evaluations to assess coherence, relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and impact of the project.

“When we saw bombs in our square, the place where I live, where I was born, where I work, it was the minute where I understood what has happened,” says Nina, a university professor who fled Kharkiv for Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, as she struggles to hold back tears. Nina is among 7 million people left internally displaced following the start of the war in Ukraine.