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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.

The complementarity of social protection and disaster risk management (DRM) is increasingly acknowledged by ASEAN.

The agreement was signed in Nairobi by H.E. Maarten Brouwer, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Kenya, Lauren Landis, WFP’s Country Director and Representative in Kenya, Alexandros Makarigakis, Director and Representative a.i. UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, H.E. Mohamud M. Ali, Governor of Marsabit County and H.E. Jeremiah E.

The World Food Programme has deployed food and logistics equipment to support communities devastated by the earthquake that struck near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday morning (22 June).  At least 1,000 people have reportedly been killed, with 2,000 others injured, around the epicentre of the magnitude 5.9 quake, 27 miles from the city of Khost. 

“When I grow up, I want to be the chief of WFP – like Edmond Vorizo,” says Seraphin, 12.

This initiative comes under WFP's school feeding programme and benefits from the direct support of the Chinese Embassy in Guinea-Bissau.

It’s 10:15 am in Velyka Mykhailivka, in the Odesa region of Ukraine, and around 100 young faces aged six to ten are lining up in the school canteen to receive their daily meal.

On the eve of a major international conference to support Lebanon in Paris Thursday (24 October), humanitarian needs in the country are growing by the day.Intensifying air and ground military operations have driven hundreds of thousands of families from their homes, stripping them of their belongings, savings and livelihoods, and forcing them to desperately seeking refuge wherever they can.

 At one end of a junkyard – next to the rusty husk of an old bus and the broken remains of a 1958 Chevrolet Daley – Edith Ndebele carefully turns a metal drum heated by firewood, keeping an eye on the peanuts tumbling around inside. The roast she’s perfected flavours the thick, creamy peanut butter her customers love in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, in the southwestern provin

In the Sahel and West Africa, 26 million people currently do not have sufficient food during the ongoing harvest season (October-December 2021) which should mark the start of the end of the lean season, according to a just-released Cadre Harmonisé (CH) report on food security.