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Seated on the floor of her home in rural Deir Ezzor, Syria, Rama’s face lights up when she talks about water.  For the past seven years, she's planted seeds, dug deeper into the earth in search of water, driven — like so many of her fellow Syrians — by the hope the life she had before might return. This time around, her crops will grow, thanks to a joint initiative of

Colleagues tell us Hepatitis A is the number one disease in Gaza. Diarrhoeal illness is also rife due to the lack of any kind of sanitation.

Price monitoring for food security in the Kyrgyz Republic is a monthly update aimed at providing timely information on domestic prices of staple food products and analysis of food security risks. The Monthly Price Monitoring Bulletin is supported by the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture and National Statistics Committee with technical assistance from WFP.

WFP in collaboration with the Government and the UN Agency for Refugees has also started shifting from providing refugees with homogeneous support to a ‘needs-based’ approach. In this approach, WFP will provide food assistance based on the food security and socio-economic status of each family.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.

Measuring the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of our operations

With support from the Adaptation Fund’s US$14 million contribution, the project will focus on districts in both countries where adverse weather affects farmers' crops and livelihoods.