World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa - Climate and Resilience Actions in Eastern Africa.
Annual Country Reports
Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)
An initial US$3 million grant from the OPEC Fund will seed the facility with additional funding mobilized from co-financiers, including multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, and other donors. The facility seeks to mobilize US$500 million in investments by 2030 and will kick-off with pilot initiatives in sub –Saharan Africa.
“The UK remains committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan,” said UK Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer. “This new funding to the World Food Programme will help more than one million people with vital emergency food and nutrition assistance.
“The impact of this conflict spans three countries – Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad - and has created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Almost a year into the war and we’re seeing no signs that the number of families fleeing across borders will slow.
The decision to pause deliveries to the north of the Gaza Strip has not been taken lightly, as we know it means the situation there will deteriorate further and more people risk dying of hunger.
“What I’ve seen in Zambia is not just alarming, it is heartbreaking,” said Director McCain, after speaking with farming families in rural Zambia. “I met farmers who usually grow enough to feed their families and communities. This year they harvested nothing.
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, and helps families across the world to access life-saving food and humanitarian assistance. However, most of this food needs to be cooked.
Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint music from a nearby house – the tail end of a wedding party – and the darkness by a single light.
Mec Sinat is already at work beneath her house which sits on stilts.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, good morning to you all.
As you have heard from our previous speakers, one thing is very clear from the latest edition of the State of Food Security report: the world is badly off-track in our efforts to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.
Despite our collective commitment, with only six years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more
Working every day in 80 countries to bring food assistance to millions of children, women and men, the World Food Programme (WFP) must ensure that the food it delivers is safe, nutritious and of good quality.