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Damayanthi stands outside her house in Wilgamuwa, Matale, in Sri Lanka, surrounded by her husband, four children...

The IGNITE Food Systems Challenge is a first-of-its-kind initiative to support Rwandan start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and cooperatives to scale up their solutions, contributing to the economy while addressing different gaps in the food system.

“Super Typhoon Odette left a trail of devastation in its wake – affecting millions. Unless we act now and provide badly needed food assistance to affected families, we risk seeing a rapid rise in preventable malnutrition,” said WFP Country Director and Representative, Brenda Barton.

More than 2,000 people were left homeless after a fire ripped through the world’s biggest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sunday (9 January). The Kutupalong camp hosts close to 900,000 refugees, all of whom receive monthly food assistance from the World Food Programme. WFP and its local partner, the RIC (Resource Integration Centre), were at hand distributing fortified biscui

In the immediate aftermath of the blaze last night, WFP and its national NGO partner Resource Integration Centre (RIC) distributed fortified biscuits to 328 families (approximately 1,600 people) who had lost their homes or cooking equipment.

“Conflict compelled us to leave our beloved hometown in Murzuq,” says Um AbdulRaheem, one of the 215,000 food-insecure people in Libya supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) last year. She and her family of seven were among 3,300 Muzruq residents forced to flee their beloved hometown to dodge violence.

The Danish contribution will substantially reinforce WFP’s life-saving assistance to some 360,000 internally displaced people and other vulnerable families affected by conflict in various states/regions in Myanmar including Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states. “Denmark is pleased to support the important work of WFP in providing essential humanitarian assistance to the people of Myanmar who

It is midday. The neighbourhood stray cats lie stretched out on rooftops enjoying the warmth of the sun, complacent about the sounds of playful children on the streets below. Roukati, a 40-year-old Syrian refugee mother of eleven children, listens to the sounds from her apartment above, busy spreading cooking oil mixed with spices onto Arabic flatbread.

The contribution from EU Humanitarian Aid provided three months of urgent multi-purpose cash assistance to those affected by the escalation in violence in May 2021. The EU’s support came at a time when the humanitarian demands of Palestinian families were exceptionally high.

The factsheet summarizes results from the 8th wave of the Socio-economic impact assessment of COVID-19 in Cambodia which is carried out in partnership with UNICEF and ADB.