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The consultation will feed into the operationalization of FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-2031 and the preparation of WFP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2026.

Country Director Siddiqui reiterated WFP’s commitment to supporting the Government in enhancing food security, improving nutrition, and strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers through sustainable agriculture.   “I am pleased to see the socioeconomic progress Sri Lanka has made since the end of its decades-long civil conflict,” said Country Director Siddiqui.

WFP has also received US$1 million from the Republic of Korea for the second instalment of its 2020-2021 contribution to Lebanon — that is part of a US$3.8 million package WFP received from Korea in December 2020 to provide assistance for Syrians inside their country and in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In Turkey, US$1 million from Korea will help WFP equip Syrian refugees with the skills they ne

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.

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.

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“Looking into 2022, funding our operations in the world’s conflict hotspots will be critical, or there is the very real risk that more people will slip into famine,” says Margot van der Velden, Director of Emergencies at the World Food Programme.  WFP recently warned that 45 million people are teetering on the very edge of famine in 43 countries, with the slightest shock likely to push