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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

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.

Disaster Resilient Villages (Kampung Siaga Bencana/KSB) is the main programme under the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs to reduce disaster risks at the local level. WFP supports the Government of Indonesia’s efforts to improve its disaster response capacity, one of which through KSB.

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.

L’évaluation avait été commandité pour de raison de redevabilité face aux bénéficiaires et aux bailleurs, d’apprentissage au regard des défis et obstacles rencontrés depuis sa mise en œuvre, et pour l’orientation stratégique afin de contribuer à l’élaboration du Plan stratégique du pays qui en 2018. L’évaluation a été conçue pour évaluer le programme pays selon les critères suivants : la perti

Although Colombia is classified as an upper-middle income country, it ranks second in Latin America and the Caribbean and seventh in the world in terms of income inequality. Food security improved between 2022 and 2023. However, one out of four Colombians are food insecure.