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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.

In 2021, extreme climate events drove more than 23 million people into food crises. 80 percent of the world’s food insecure people live in areas prone to natural hazards and high levels of environmental degradation.

Lusakert village is located in the northern part of Armenia's Shirak region. Severe weather conditions throughout the year make it consistently difficult for families to grow enough food to eat.

With larger vehicles facing issues reaching those in need in built-up areas, collaboration with Uber allows WFP to better coordinate, dispatch and track a fleet of smaller vehicles delivering relief items from warehouses to people in need in densely populated areas of Ukraine. Through this platform, WFP can get its food closer to those people needing its support, dispatching deliveries in vario

Before first light, 11-year-old Reaksmey is already out of bed preparing for the school day.  “I usually wake up feeling very energetic,” she says, smiling – that’s just as well.

The new service, which operates independently, builds on WFP and UNHCR’s experience in setting-up vehicle leasing schemes.

In efforts to realize this outcome, the strategy outlines WFP’s commitment to ensure that the communities and their lived realities are at the centre of its intervention. The strategy was developed through a series of targeted consultations with more than 200 people representing six diverse stakeholder interests at operational and strategic levels both internal and external to WFP.

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.

Bringing together leading players in the sector, such as Carrier Global Corporation, Renault Trucks and Toyota Tsusho, the Government of Ghana and WFP will set up a first-of-its-kind centre which will offer free online and hands-on training to up to 400 people per year.

The donation was announced during a ceremony at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan, Yasushi Misawa, in the presence of WFP Country Director and Representative Sarah Gordon-Gibson. “Japan is a strong supporter of WFP worldwide and grateful for the role the organization plays in responding to the needs of vulnerable populations hence I am pleased to make this contribution on behalf of the G