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The United Nations World Food Programme has swiftly mounted an emergency food assistance operation deploying more than 180 staff and increasing food distributions to reach 1.4 million people, yet that is barely half of the number we should be reaching.  Other agencies are also struggling to reach many of the rest of Tigray’s hungry.   The brutal reality for our staff in Tigray is t

Nick Dyer and David Beasley said: “More than 250 million people now face extreme hunger this year alone and coronavirus has made this dire situation even worse. “There are up to 30 million adults and children facing the most acute food insecurity and who could be tipped into famine if additional support is not provided.  “The United Kingdom and World Food Programme are taking early acti

The agencies warned of growing risks including increased malnutrition and anaemia, stunted child growth, deterioration of the health status due to susceptibility to diseases/infection and a myriad of protection risks further compounded by the COVID 19 pandemic. Funding shortages will force ration cuts of up to 60 percent of people’s required daily intake, meaning some 710,000 refugees impacted

Some US$20.6 million will be used to provide life-saving support to families in conflict-stricken Yemen, where nearly 50,000 people are living in famine-like conditions, with 5 million just a step away from those same desperate conditions. In Afghanistan, a US$12.9 million allocation will support WFP’s response for families affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A further

WFP’s food price monitoring shows that food prices are trending upwards in some urban areas with the retail price of palm oil up 20 percent since the start of February in the peri-urban areas of the main city Yangon, and rice prices in the peri-urban areas of Yangon and Mandalay also up 4 percent since the last week of February. Across the country, the cost of rice showed an average increase of

The key objective of this assessment is to assess the benefits and satisfaction levels among the beneficiaries and other stakeholders with the inclusion of subsidized pulses in food safety nets and to explore the sustainability aspects of the inclusion of Pulses into the TPDS in terms of meeting national policies on maintaining strategic reserves and ensuring food and nutrition security. 

This assistance will complement existing national efforts undertaken by the Government of Armenia and its partners to support people affected by the conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic. Janez Lenarčič, European Commissioner for Crisis Management, said: “The EU’s emergency aid is delivered in line with the humanitarian principles and helps civilians affected by the hostilities and their host popu

Many have lost everything: their homes, belongings, crops and livelihoods. Needs assessments determine who to prioritize. 15 districts have been impacted in Malawi, with over to 868,000 people affected including about 732,000 in need of assistance.