Chiara Camassa is an administration officer for the World Food Programme in Haiti, where there are currently 72 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Five people have died. Since arriving in the Caribbean country four months ago, Camassa has been the WFP ‘focal point' for COVID-19 issues — largely due to her experience of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014.
Namibia is an upper-middle-income country, with a population of 2.5 million people. Despite this classification, 18 percent of Namibians live below the national poverty line. Over a fifth of people were unemployed in 2021, mostly women and youth.
Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, has recently graduated to low-middle-income country status. Despite recent economic growth, poverty rates stand at 79 percent, with 42 percent of the population living in extreme poverty.
The urgent and lasting solutions needed to achieve SDG 2 require change across multiple levels, with the World Food Programme working every day to raise awareness and encourage positive action.
The worsening climate crisis drives the Global Food Crisis, affecting 56.8 million people as of 2022. There is a significant disparity between the needed scale of greenhouse gas mitigation, societal adaptation capabilities, and the increasing losses from climate-related disasters. This divide, commonly termed the 'protection gap,' poses significant challenges for humanitarian organizations.
About 70 percent of Namibia’s population depends on agriculture for income and livelihood. The virtual marketplace has so far connected over 100 smallholder farmers to local markets and will benefit several actors across the food value chain – from farmers to consumers.
In recent years, Armenia faced multiple shocks that revealed an acute need to enhance the adaptability and response mechanisms of the social protection system to meet the needs of vulnerable populations during and after crises.
In partnership with USAID, WFP launched the “Integrated Response to Increased Food Prices in Armenia” project that aims to improve and strengthen shock-responsive polici
Before first light, 11-year-old Reaksmey is already out of bed preparing for the school day.
“I usually wake up feeling very energetic,” she says, smiling – that’s just as well.
This is the second maritime shipment of WFP food assistance to leave Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in February. The MV Karteria, carrying 37,000 metric tons of wheat grain, will stop first in Turkey, where the grain will be milled into flour.
Bringing together leading players in the sector, such as Carrier Global Corporation, Renault Trucks and Toyota Tsusho, the Government of Ghana and WFP will set up a first-of-its-kind centre which will offer free online and hands-on training to up to 400 people per year.