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The UN food agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to an additional 5 million people by the end of this year, doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.

The war in Ukraine continues to exacerbate the global food security and nutrition crisis, with high and volatile energy, food and fertilizer prices, restrictive trade policies, and supply chain disruptions. Despite the reprieve in global food prices and the resumption of grain exports from the Black Sea, food remains beyond reach for many due to high prices and weather shocks.

The four-year joint programme is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the KfW German Development Bank. This is a unique programme that aims to provide long-term solutions by tackling underlying barriers to peace, stability and development to nearly 300,000 vulnerable Sudanese across South, Central and North Darfur, who have been adversely

Framework, indicators and multi-level index for value chains and markets Building on the multi-composite WEAI (IFPRI) framework and index, the WFP RBD market analysis team seeks to work towards an adapted version (more relevant for agricultural production support and focus) to meet WFP humanitarian and market-based programming needs: the Women’s Empowerment in Markets Index (WEMI) with the potenti

The evaluation is commissioned to measure the performance of the livelihoods programme to improve future programming and is intended for both accountability and learning purposes.

14 million people in Afghanistan are facing acute food insecurity, and an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five expected to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the year.

In January 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) released a six-month Drought Response Plan for the Horn of Africa.

While Uganda’s Karamoja region registered development gains recently, overall, since independence, there have been significant failures. WFP contracted Development Pathways to investigate the situation and generate ideas for innovative solutions.

Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school. “We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.