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The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to WFP for its efforts to foster peace while highlighting the links between conflict and hunger.

The United Nations World Food Programme today announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries. To tackle the rising tide of hunger, WFP is undertaking the biggest humanitarian response in its history, ram

The pungent smell of boiling beans and burning ugali (maize meal) wafting through the corridors is one I can recall from my days growing up in a government boarding school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital.  At times, the smell would change to boiling cabbage and burning rice.

The evaluation was commissioned to a) assess the project's performance and intended and unintended results; b) identify best practices and lessons learned; and c) review the implementation to generate recommendations that will inform future project design and was intended for both accountability and learning purposes.  It focused on assessing the relevance, effectivenes

Establishment of a Humanitarian Staging Area in Nsanje District, southern Malawi, as part of the emergency supply chain project to increase access, ensure operational continuity, and enhance national resilience during crisis. Support to development and adoption of a National Logistics Plan and corresponding roadmap to achieve agreed targets. Logistical support and assistance to 41 organizat

"We lost what we planted to the drought," says Nyabany Mun Roah, as she prepares a meal outside the simple thatched hut that doubles as a living room and bedroom in Karam, Uror County. "Without assistance, we would have starved," added Nyabany, referring to food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners as part of an emergency package to tide the most vulnerable through th

A list of key principles for policy makers and practitioners to consider for their assessments, planning, and design of innovative social protection policies and programmes that support climate adaptation and move beyond shock response

The Mission estimated the 2015 net cereal production in the traditional sector at about 921 000 tonnes, about 9 percent below the 2014 very good output, but still about 16 percent above the last five-year average production. Despite some dry spells between May and August, seasonal rains in 2015 have been generally abundant and prolonged until December.