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 When Catherine Wanjala woke up in the morning and saw the little purple flowers in her maize field in western Kenya, it would break her heart.

To support the Government’s efforts towards agricultural development and food sovereignty, WFP RoC launched a project called “ProManioc” in September 2020.

In Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, spiking fuel and food costs have fed growing violence and catastrophic hunger levels in some places, a new expert report finds— while in others, many Haitians like mother-of-four Adeline, can only afford one meal a day.  As Sudan grapples with soaring food prices and alarming child malnutrition, World Food Programme (WFP) rations help to k

For the World Food Programme, 2023 will go down as a year of unprecedented ration cuts amid chronic and historic funding shortfalls and rising needs.

McCain takes up the vital role at a time when the unprecedented global food crisis is pushing millions of people deeper into hunger, with a particular impact on the lives of women and girls. “Hunger puts more people- particularly women and children - at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse,” said McCain and stressed that "Seeking food or humanitarian assistance should never be a choice to sacr

Sadiya starts her day early by letting out her goats from her backyard barn at Bokolmayo refugee camp, a collection of makeshift houses in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Whistling cheerfully, she leads them first to a water point nearby, then farther away to find a good grazing spot amid the cracked land.

This funding builds on the original $2.5 million, equivalent to four million emergency meals, that Tesfaye directed to WFP’s Gaza response in December 2023. It provided 820 metric tons of food parcels to feed more than 173,000 Palestinians for two weeks. Additionally, Tesfaye is making an urgent appeal to fans, calling on them to give what they can by donating towards WFP's efforts in Gaza.

Hiwot Negasi – her first name meaning “life” in the Ethiopian language of Amharic – describes how her life literally changed overnight when war broke out and her family’s home in Western Tigray was invaded at the end of 2020.

The Rome-based agency, which works in more than 80 countries, is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and provides food assistance to about 100 million people every year. Nyamayaro’s appointment comes at a time when an estimated 270 million people, many of them in Africa, are facing acute food insecurity and need urgent assistance. "I am only alive because of a simple bowl of porridge from th

It focuses on the country’s first-ever AA activation in November 2023, which leveraged the national social protection system to swiftly provide cash assistance and early warning messages to people exposed to flood risk.