At a time when conflict, insecurity, climate extremes and economic shocks are pushing more and more people into extreme levels of food insecurity, funding from the EU helped WFP run its cash assistance programmes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic over a period of nine months.
The contribution, made through the EU’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (DG ECHO), also he
There are 734 million people going hungry around the world, 122 million more than in 2019, according to newly released UN figures for 2022.
Launched last week by agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), ‘The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2023’ (SOFI) report estimates 29.6 percent of the world’s population, around 2.4 billion people,
The edition of the Quarterly Bulletin by the United Nations World Food Programme in India has updates on partnerships with the Government of Meghalaya, NITI Aayog, and M.S.
WFP is a critical player in supporting refugees and crisis-affected populations in Egypt through three key activities: 1. General Food Assistance (GFA), 2. Nutrition support for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women (PBW), and 3. Self-reliance activities.
WFP provides cash transfers to refugees and crisis-affected populations in the form of monthly unrestricted cash.
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
“When you don’t have food to feed your children, when you don’t have money to buy medicines you are pushed into desperation”, said Beasley. “People don’t want to leave their homes, they are being forced to.”
Hunger in Central America has quadrupled over the past two years, with 8 million people now hungry.
Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiraling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence, warns the United Nations World Food Programme.
Recent attacks in Palma have affected 50,000 people. Many have fled Palma to Pemba on boats making their perilous journey over choppy waters.
Since November 2017, WFP and the Food Security Sector have been conducting the Refugee influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment (REVA) annually. The REVA aims to monitor food security situation and vulnerability levels of the Rohingya population living in the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar district and the adjacent host community potentially affected.
The day I visit Uzhhorod with a World Food Programme (WFP) assessment team, we are told that 11 trains, each carrying 2,000 passengers, are due from Kharkiv and Kyiv. We are on the border with Slovakia in the west of Ukraine.