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This is one of the many delegations on fortified rice that the Government of India has hosted in partnership with WFP. “This visit provided insights into India’s rice fortification.

Yemen, the world's worst humanitarian crisis 2018 will be remembered as the year in which hunger spiked in Yemen.

The UN Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) - FAO, IFAD and WFP - with their shared mandate of ensuring food security for all people, have joined forces to support one of the most impactful evidence-based interventions to positively transform global food systems: national Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes.

The evaluation, conducted by Information, Training and Development (ITAD), highlights that 95 percent of participating households reported increased crop production thanks to climate-smart agriculture with 75 percent of households harvesting over 200 kg of maize in 2020 compared to 43 percent in 2019.

Acute hunger, exacerbated by climate extremes, continues to affect southern Madagascar.  People are living through severe drought, which has caused an almost total disappearance of food sources. In recent months, for the first time in the country, pockets of Phase 5, or ‘Catastrophe’ food insecurity on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, have been recorded.

There is more to the neat stacking of food bags than first meets the eye, at WFP's rented warehouse in Dire Dawa, a city in eastern Ethiopia. Such perfect symmetry makes for accurate counting and reporting — and ultimately helps ensure no supplies are unaccounted for. In fact WFP has been training Government staff on the same technique at their nearby warehouse. "WFP has been training

A report on the collaboration between the Government of Odisha and the World Food Programme to strengthen and computerise their food distribution systems.

It was intended for both accountability and learning and focuses on assessing: i) the appropriateness and coherence of the operation; ii) its results; and iii) the factors explaining the results.

Eswatini has made progress in economic growth and sustainability since 2010. However, it is estimated that 29 percent of the population are facing severe acute food insecurity and urgently require humanitarian assistance. The prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition remains a pressing concern across the country.