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At 69, Olga Lima has seen her fair share of droughts, floods and hurricanes in her native Dominican Republic. As she prepares lunch one recent morning, she recalls last year’s disasters that left her community reeling.  First a storm pummeled her town of Castañuelas, 20 km from the country’s northern coast.

When the war in Ukraine started, Anna and her husband, Anatol, were worried for their daughter Zainada and grandchildren living in Mykolaiv across the border in Ukraine. Then their daughter called.  “We were grateful that they were safe, and they were coming home stay with us,” says Anatol. “We were also excited to have our grandchildren come and stay with us.

The medicinal herb-processing workshop will benefit around 1,000 smallholder farmers and will boost the cultivation of a large variety of herbs that will be used to produce high-end wellness products including cosmetics, food, medicine and pharmaceutics. “It is difficult to objectively evaluate ourselves and our surroundings.

The funding will complement a Government of Malawi-led intervention providing 540 metric tonnes of locally procured beans to affected people in the districts of Chikwawa, Nsanje and Phalombe hit by flooding in March.   With global food prices already at their highest in a decade and economic growth slowing, the Ukraine conflict is deepening and widening a hunger crisis afflicting countr

WFP’s emergency food and nutrition operation aims to assist 3.4 million of the Sri Lankans most at risk of food insecurity and malnutrition amid record food inflation, skyrocketing fuel prices and widespread shortages of essential commodities. “We are deeply concerned about the impact of the current economic and political crisis on the people of Sri Lanka.

Furthermore, the Government of Japan has recently confirmed a new contribution of US$ 0.5 million to provide general food assistance to some 8,500 vulnerable IDPs, host communities and returnees in the South of the country who are suffering from high food prices caused by the war in Ukraine.

Next to making sure more and more school meals are available to the most vulnerable children around the world, it is vital to ensure quality standards are met to make the meals as nutritious (and tasty!) as possible. So the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have joined forces to develop a set of nutrition guidelines.  These will be adapt

Fortification is one of the most cost-effective means of combating micronutrient deficiencies, which remains a public health issue in Tajikistan, particularly for women and children.

In this overarching brief, WFP synthesises the results and lessons  from five NECD briefs, covering 22 initiatives across 25 countries and implemented with 49 partners: Mapping evaluation capacities Technical assistance to governments Supporting joint and supporting country-led evaluations Collaborating with VOPEs and other evaluation stakeholders   Global advocacy  The bri