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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. 

Climate change continues to wreak havoc in Eastern Africa, a region with minimal emissions yet which bears the brunt of the global climate emergency.

A wave of desert locusts in East Africa is now forming more swarms in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, putting at risk the main crop harvest in May and June, and threatening the food security of smallholder farmers. In South Sudan, desert locusts have affected four counties in Eastern Equatoria region since arriving in mid-February.

Hunger is tightening its grip on vulnerable Haitians as insecurity, violence and deepening economic woes are driving a complex emergency in Haiti. Almost half the population is facing acute hunger and malnutrition is on the rise.

With COVID-19 containment measures limiting people’s movement, WFP has introduced measures to ensure that beneficiaries receive their entitlements in as safe a way as possible.

Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flash flooding, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Food and energy prices remain stubbornly high as the impact of the conflict in Sudan reverberates around the region.  “Conflict, cli

There are 2.8 million children out of school across South Sudan and WFP’s school meals are a vital social safety net that help increase enrolment and attendance at schools, particularly in highly food insecure areas.

“This is a race against time – I am worried we might not be able to keep up,” says Shelley Thakral, the World Food Programme’s communications chief in Afghanistan, on a video call from Herat. “We do not have enough funds and we are asking for US$2.6 billion to scale up as we must in 2022 – that’s about 30 cents of a US dollar per person we need to reach per day.

WFP aims to reach 2.1 million people with emergency food assistance from August onwards and needs at least 6,000 metric tons of food each week to do so. Due to insecurity and operational constraints, it has been unable to bring these quantities into Tigray in recent weeks.   More than 175 trucks arrived in the Tigray region, via the Abala corridor, during the first week of August.