In 2023, multiple threats collided and drove up hunger, from conflict and extreme climate conditions to economic shocks. By the end of the year, 78 million in Asia and the Pacific faced acute levels of food insecurity. This was more than double pre-pandemic levels, revealing just how many had failed to break free from the shackles of hunger and poverty since the onset of COVID-19.
The EU’s contribution, received through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), is helping WFP avoid an interruption in its operations providing vital food assistance to populations affected by food insecurity in isolated or hard-to-reach areas of the country.
With frequent reports of people fleeing their villages to escape violence, humanitarian needs i
During normal times, Route Nationale 2 would be jammed with brightly painted trucks and buses connecting the major shipping ports of Haiti’s capital to the south of the country.
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World Food Programme teams are working around the clock to meet rising hunger needs across Sudan, including civilians trapped in El Fasher and people displaced from North Darfur’s besieged capital.
La toile de fond d’une protection sociale sensible au VIH est nécessairement l'adoption d'une nouvelle approche basée sur les Droits de l'Homme, faisant des droits sociaux des Droits sur l'État, censé couvrir les besoins de dignité et d'insertion sociale et économique, cibler la justice sociale et ainsi répondre aux exigences constitutionnelles et juridiques.
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Zenebech Kahsay is relieved to watch her children play once again, their energy renewed at last by bread she’s baked after receiving a 15kg bag of wheat from the World Food Programme (WFP) at a food distribution in Tahtay Adyabo, in Ethiopia’s northern province of Tigray.
“My children were dizzy with hunger,” explains Kahsay as she grinds dark brown grains of wheat with a pestle and mortar.
A land-locked country in East Africa, Uganda produces more food than it consumes. Yet, poverty still limits people’s access to nutritious food, especially in the north and east of the country.
Thirty-one thousand people are facing famine-like conditions in Yemen – by June 161,000 people will be at risk, according to the latest IPC (Integrated Food Phase Classification) figures, the global standard for measuring food insecurity.
They are at IPC phase 5 – or ‘catastrophe’, while an additional 1.6 million people in the country are expected to fall into IPC 4 – ‘emergency’ leve