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The evaluation which covered six countries (Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) focused on WFP’s contribution to market development and food systems in Southern Africa and covered the 2018 to 2021.

The scale of need in Haiti is truly striking.

For the World Food Programme (WFP), the pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to fulfilling its mandate to not only save lives, but to change lives by ending global hunger. Food insecurity and gender inequality are closely interlinked; globally there are 150 million more women who are food insecure than men.

In the ancient streets of the Libyan capital, the usual morning rituals of grinding roasted coffee beans and rattling cups are temporarily paused. It is the final week of Ramadan – a time of peace, reflection and slower starts.

In this report, food distribution is analysed within the context of food systems in Tanzania.

Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence is spinning off a “serious food crisis,” says the World Food Programme Representative and Country Director Abdur Rahim Siddiqui.

Juba – Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise across the flood, drought, and conflict-affected areas of South Sudan, with some communities likely to face starvation if humanitarian assistance is not sustained and climate adaptation measures are not scaled-up, the United Nations warned today. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), released today, shows about two-thirds

“We came to Zambia because we were afraid of dying,” says Mulumbwa, 25. “People were being killed and beheaded. By the time we arrived, we were exhausted. My children were very unwell and had lost a lot of weight.” In 2017, Mulumbwa, her husband and their two children left all they had in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to seek refuge in Zambia.

Storms, droughts and floods of immense magnitude are worsening an unprecedented global food crisis. Across the world, the devastating effects of climate change are already hitting some of the planet’s poorest people, who depend on the land and predictable weather for their future.

A few more bricks, a bit of putty and a coat of paint – in tropical afternoon heat, Renel Begrade is hastily finishing the last low wall of the Notre Dame de Lamercie school in the commune of Fonds-des-Nègres in Nippes, one of the regions worst affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti in August.  More than 2,000 people died and, with 1,200 schools destroyed, thousands of school