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From July to September 2022, rainfall across Indonesia was higher than the thirty-year long-term average. This was the result of the early start of the rainy season in combination with the persisting La Niña phenomenon. The phenomenon is still ongoing and forecasted to continue, despite with a weaker effect until the end of the year.

From January to March 2022, due to La Niña, rainfall across Indonesia was generally higher than the thirty-year long-term average. Most provinces experienced an increase in rainfall except for three provinces in the western part of Jawa (Banten, DKI Jakarta and Jawa Barat).

It’s vital that at this time of global crisis WFP maintain its food assistance programmes which offer a lifeline to 87 million vulnerable people around the world. WFP’s top priority is to ensure it has the resources in place to meet the food and nutrition needs of the people that so depend on its assistance. The pandemic is affecting countries in different ways.

The UN World Food Programme warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence. The displacement has left at least 730,000 people in Cabo Delgado with no access to their lands and no means of earning a living.

As Corona-Virus cases soar, Latin America has become the region most impacted by COVID-19 globally, accounting for over a quarter of the world’s cases. The health pandemic is driving hunger and food insecurity which risks fuelling conflict and political unrest and forcing vulnerable families to migrate.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered emergency food assistance to more than one million people in Sudan in the six weeks since operations resumed on 3 May.

SANA’A – Yemen is at a tipping point as conflict and economic woes drag the country to the brink of famine and risk cancelling out the gains made through humanitarian action in the past few years, the United Nations World Food Programme warns today.

Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, the United Nations World Food Programme has warned. With nearly eight million people – half the population – now food insecure, WFP plans to double the number of people it assists - up to 4.1 million

The Black Sea Grain Initiative and the reopening of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports to commercial and humanitarian shipments are crucial to helping the world’s hungry. There is no single solution to the global food crisis but reintegrating Ukrainian food and Russian food and fertilizer into global markets is a step in the right direction

Many have lost everything: their homes, belongings, crops and livelihoods. Needs assessments determine who to prioritize. 15 districts have been impacted in Malawi, with over to 868,000 people affected including about 732,000 in need of assistance.