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This article marks the anniversary of Resolution 2417, passed by the UN Security Council on 24 May 2018, banning the use of starvation as a weapon of war and confirming the links between hunger and conflict.   “We started living together, doing business at the same locations, and farming together,” says Rebecca.

Recent contributions from donors have averted wide-scale cuts that would have affected a larger number of people, but resources still fall well short of meeting the needs of all vulnerable refugees in Jordan. WFP urgently needs US$58 million to continue food assistance until the end of the year for the half million refugees it supports. “Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Lightbulbs? Hold on, something’s off, I hear you say. That’s not the World Food Programme tagline you’ve heard before. What do lightbulbs have to do with the organization’s mission of ushering the world to end hunger by achieving peace? Well, WFP Sustainability — that’s what.  Eradicating hunger, working to avert famine:that's  WFP’s mission. It’s what we do.

Southern Madagascar is currently in the grips of a severe hunger crisis, driven by the worst drought in four decades. For the first time ever pockets of IPC phase 5 or ‘Catastrophe’ have been recorded in the south of the country, where people are being forced to eat raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves and locusts due to a lack of food.

“With this MoU, the first between WFP and the Ministry – we are pledging our commitment to improving the lives and creating a better future for the children of Tajikistan by investing in school feeding.

These special Situation Reports provide an update on WFP’s rapid response activities for major disasters in the Rohingya refugee camps and surrounding host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

  You can help families in Afghanistan.

Florida shaves off the rough skin of a manioc root, then cuts the tuber into small pieces to dry in the sun. Later it will be turned into fufu, the doughy food that is a culinary staple in central Africa, including in this northwestern slice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

It is midday. The neighbourhood stray cats lie stretched out on rooftops enjoying the warmth of the sun, complacent about the sounds of playful children on the streets below. Roukati, a 40-year-old Syrian refugee mother of eleven children, listens to the sounds from her apartment above, busy spreading cooking oil mixed with spices onto Arabic flatbread.

As the Pacific is gripped by frequent climate shocks and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, amidst growing global food insecurity, understanding the function of local markets and how price fluctuations can affect people’s access to food will help to implement effective social protection policies. The workshop, attended by local government officers, civil society organisations, managers of mun