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WFP received in July 2023 the first tranche of the multi-year EU funding €5 million.

An estimated 500,000 people are living in areas exposed to flooding in Ayeyarwady. Over the coming days, WFP plans to assist 35,000 flood-affected people in evacuation centres with rice and fortified biscuits. This assistance will be coupled with nutrition support for mothers and children to prevent acute malnutrition.

Following an official request for assistance from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, WFP has begun rice distributions in the Luang Namtha province today, where temporary food shortages are compounded by the loss of rice crops and agricultural land. In coordination with the Government of Lao PDR and the Lao Red Cross, WFP is distributing 100 metric tonnes of rice to 14,000 severely aff

“Entire communities across Afghanistan experience despair and hunger,” said Ma Chen Guang, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan, at a ceremony in Kabul on Thursday.

Financially supported by DSM-FIRMENICH - a Swiss-Dutch company specialized in nutrition - the rice fortification initiative targets an initial 236 primary schools supported by WFP in Senegal including 101 schools in the Department of Matam.

The funding secured through the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) will provide emergency food assistance for people affected by the devastating floods which have impacted nearly one million people and damaged one million acres of farmland. Currently, one in four – 13.3 million people - are food insecure, with 2.7 million of these facing e

At COP29, WFP is calling for:Accelerated climate action and financing in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where communities are most vulnerable and least equipped to adapt.Immediate action to operationalize the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, delivering crucial resources to frontline communities facing climate-driven hunger and malnutrition.

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.

Due to protracted funding shortfalls, WFP has already been forced to cut rations for 750,000 registered refugees living in 22 camps and five sites in hosting communities in Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Somali and Tigray regions of Ethiopia.

Marking International Day of Peace today, the World Food Programme (WFP)'s Executive Director David Beasley is adamant: "There's no two ways about it — we can't end hunger unless we put an end to conflict."As the world stands on the brink of a hunger pandemic, with the impact of coronavirus threatening to almost double the number of acutely hungry people to 270 million, those living in conflict-af