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A total of 30,000 families, or 150,000 people, in 11 upazilas spanning five districts—Khulna, Satkhira, Barguna, Patuakhali, and Bhola—received US$43 (BDT 5,000) each earlier today.

Minister Rania El Mashat began her visit in El-Boghdadi village where she met with smallholder farmers. The village is one of 64 villages in Upper Egypt assisted through a Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) and WFP joint project.

Green shoots of promise are pushing up from the conflict-scarred earth of Darfur, in western Sudan. Literally.  Primary schools are growing potatoes. tomatoes and spinach on government-allocated land.

A tattered football sails off the field at Shree Kakani Ganesh Primary School, in the central Nepalese village of Kakani. The game pauses, as 12-year-old team captain Ravi stops and strains his ears.

This month WFP started delivering emergency relief food assistance to communities in regions bordering on war-torn Tigray.

Providing the logistics backbone for global COVID-19 efforts, WFP operates a network of hubs and passenger and cargo airlinks to ensure a steady flow of supplies and support to the frontlines of the pandemic.

This decentralized endline evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Bangladesh Country Office and covers the USDA McGovern Dole 2017-2020 grant.   It was carried out in 2020 and finalized in 2021. The endline evaluation was commissioned under the requirements of the USDA grant and serves several critical purposes intended for accountability and learning.

The principal of Severynivka’s primary school sent the children and teachers home in April. They are yet to return. Gone are the familiar sounds of children chattering or echoing school bells along the pristine corridors.

Elizabeth Nyamayaro knows her ducks and, especially, her mission. Her intel on ducks comes from southern Egypt, where a World Food Programme (WFP) project built resilience and women’s empowerment in a deeply conservative community. Her mission was forged from battling extreme hunger as a child in rural Zimbabwe.

ROME – Inclusive access to digital technologies and education is crucial to reducing gender inequalities and empowering rural women and girls – that was the message from three United Nations’ food and agriculture agencies as they marked International Women’s Day 2023. Participants at the event, co-organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Internati