To get to Zero Hunger, food is not enough. Providing food assistance in an emergency can save lives, but the right nutrition at the right time can also help change lives and break the cycle of poverty.
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.
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
Highlights
2014 Achievements
Food for 3.8 million people delivered to Syria’s hard-to-reach areas
August’s 4.1 million - the highest reached in any one month in Syria
1.9 million refugees reached in December
98 percent of regional assistance provided through vouchers, injecting US$1 billion since start of operations
2015 Plans
Introduction of resilience activities
The two modern workshops with automated systems and quality assurance processes will enable the country to produce required gabion nets to strengthen slopes, protect riverbeds and banks and be used for other disaster prevention measures.
On a cold and gloomy day in Veselianka village, in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, a few dozen people gather at a food distribution point where the World Food Programme (WFP) provides monthly food assistance.
Between June and August 2022, the World Food Programme completed the evaluation and conducted a total of 7,097 household and travel group surveys, ensuring representative samples for five population groups: i) Venezuelan migrants with a vocation for permanence, ii) migrants Venezuelans in transit, iii) commuting Venezuelan migrants, iv) Colombian returnees and v) host communities.
The new contribution comes at a time when food insecure families are facing a tough and dangerous winter.
“While the world is struggling with a global upsurge in food and energy prices, vulnerable families in Syria have nothing left to cope with another winter,” says Kenn Crossley, Representative and Country Director of WFP in Syria.
As a legal body entrusted with the authority to regulate the safety and quality of food and medicine, the FDCC plays a key role in ensuring that all imported food and drugs meet the Libyan standard specifications.
Libya imports 80 percent of its food consumption requirements, and up to 90 percent of its cereal requirements.
The latest WFP surveys show that hunger is rising sharply in Sri Lanka, where nearly half of the households interviewed were facing challenges in accessing food, amid income losses, record levels of food price inflation, disruptions to the food supply chain and severe shortages of basic commodities including fuel.
“Millions of the poorest Sri Lankans can no longer afford an adequate d