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Four years ago, shortly after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees arrived in her community of Cox’s Bazar, Hason Ara received food rations from the World Food Programme (WFP).  At the time, her husband, a food trader, was struggling to find any work, and with rising prices, they could not afford to put food on the table for their family of eight.

Thanks to generous donors like the EU, WFP has been providing vital food assistance to nearly 323,000 people affected by the crisis in Cabo Delgado where escalating violence has displaced over 565,000 people.   “Despite challenging and unprecedented developments over the last few months, our partnership with WFP has ensured uninterrupted assistance to many vulnerable families in Mozambi

Russia and Ukraine combined account for 30 percent of the global wheat exports and 20 percent of global maize exports. Any disruption in production or supply could drive prices up, affecting millions of vulnerable families, especially in hunger hotspots.

The MGD International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Kenya, 2016-2022, is managed by the United States Department of Agriculture and implemented by WFP Kenya.  It aims to support education, child development and food security in low-income, food-deficit countries around the globe, and provides United States of America produced agricultural commodities and financial assistan

The cyclone hit the southern African country just as the rainy season was tailing off with several rivers and water bodies already at high levels resulting in severe flooding.  This has inundated farmlands and destroyed produce – just as farmers were about to harvest the only crop of the year - compounding an already difficult year in which 3.8 million people need food assistance.

McCain, who has served since 2021 as the United States Ambassador to the three UN food and agriculture agencies in Rome, takes the helm of an organization which last year delivered food assistance to a record 158 million people around the world.

Thanks to a financial contribution from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), and in partnership with the National Civil Protection Agency (ANPC), WFP has begun distributing cash to help affected people purchase food.

The Philippines has been implementing mandatory rice fortification with iron with the passage of Republic Act (RA) 8976 or the Philippine Food Fortification Act on 7 November 2000 with full implementation in 2004. WFP Philippines, with support from Japan-based partners from WFP, International Life Sciences Institute and DSM, decided to conduct a study on the overall rice fortification capacitie

Thanks to a contribution from the Coca-Cola Foundation, WFP will implement in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) a two-year programme to establish a model farm using green energy and water-saving techniques to optimize the use of limited land and natural resources.

The refugees, who are mainly from the Great Lakes region, receive monthly WFP cash assistance at the camp - where they face several challenges, including insufficient shelter and inadequate health, water, and sanitation services. The assistance provided was designed to meet the minimum recommended energy needs of 2,100 kilocalories.