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An El Nino event active since March 2015 will almost certainly last through 2015 and is likely to extend into early 2016.  The intensity of this event is increasing with a peak expected in the last quarter of 2015 and there is a significant chance that it may become one of the strongest events of the past 30 years. The timing of the event means that it will influence all growing seasons of

The on-going El Nino event, officially declared in March, will remain active throughout 2015 and is very likely to extend into the first quarter of 2016. The event is now strengthening towards its peak intensity which should be reached in late 2015.

The MoU was signed between WFP India Representative and Country Director Mr. Bishow Parajuli and Director Isha Outreach Ms. Moumita Sen Sarma in the national capital on 21st February. “Every responsible scientist in the world and the UN agencies are clearly saying we have 80-100 harvests left, that means approximately 45-50 years of agricultural soil left on the planet.

In the provinces of central Chad migrating is, by tradition, less a last resort than a way of life.

Mainner, her husband and their four children live in the town of Pemba, where she’s managed to extend growing to get by into a successful business, supplying vast amounts of nutritious crops for food producers — in spite of the ever-present risk of drought and floods destroying all. “I used to struggle to feed my family or dress my children, but I changed my life for the better when I diver

The SADC Executive Secretary expressed his commitment to WFP’s work and strengthen existing cooperation in the advancement of regional integration and food security. The importance of continued collaboration in the areas of youth employment and women’s empowerment, assisting vulnerable/marginalised communities and knowledge management and digitalisation was highlighted.

“The recent conflict has caused significant destruction and increased the suffering of Gaza’s population that has already been grappling with hefty challenges with little prospect for breakthrough,” said WFP Representative and Country Director Samer AbdelJaber.

This is the second maritime shipment of WFP food assistance to leave Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in February. The MV Karteria, carrying 37,000 metric tons of wheat grain, will stop first in Turkey, where the grain will be milled into flour.

Syria rarely makes the headlines these days, at least not for the 12 million people who are food-insecure after more than 11 years of conflict – that’s more than half the population.  In September, I went there to see what life is like for people wrestling with unrelenting crises for all this time. I wanted to help shine a light on the realities the Syrian people grapple with every

The additional funding will enable WFP to scale up and respond to the humanitarian crisis, by providing in-kind food ration for 100,000 vulnerable people in the south of Ukraine, such as Odessa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson.