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Spring kicks off tidings of new beginnings for many in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s also a reminder of how fragile the seasons that have traditionally been taken for granted the world over have become. Summers spill into winters and winters spill into summers.

At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns today, with thousands of families being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week.

An important element of the partnership is training, and helping strengthen the skills and expertise of KRSO staff in food security monitoring. Building on WFP’s successful skills workshops with KRSO in the past, the agreement includes comprehensive training on food security and data analysis, including Kurdistan Region government staff from other departments.

If aliens were to view planet earth as a plate, it wouldn’t take a particularly intelligent lifeform to see that human beings are making a meal of their very home... and leaving nothing left. Over the past two weeks COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh has aimed, as all UN climate summits do, to stop the damage.

“My goats represent hope,“ says Sainteleine Ertilus, a mother of six children and smallholder farmer in Jean Rabel commune, Northwest Haiti.

Sawiid was working for a humanitarian agency when his family called him three years ago — his house and village in Myanmar were burned down. When he got back to his home, his brothers and their families had already left for Bangladesh. "Originally, I wasn't brave enough to move because I have four children. Two are very young. I knew the distance, while most people didn't.

With over 33 per cent of children in Lao PDR still suffering from chronic malnutrition - affecting their cognitive development and academic performance - the government is committed to expanding its school meal initiatives.

“We already lost our homes in Khartoum and watched as our lives were destroyed before our eyes. Now we are forced to flee yet again, leaving behind what little we had left. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing on foot, with nowhere to go.

There’s little remarkable about a greenhouse growing chillis, cucumbers and tomatoes until you learn that it’s situated in the ‘Dry Corridor’—a vast stretch of Central America where drought linked to the El Niño climate phenomenon is pushing more and more people into food insecurity.  Farmers in countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are unable to grow and this makes acc

Good news comes with a catch in Haiti. Of course, it’s good news that the 19,200 people who faced ‘famine-like’ conditions in October no longer do. This was against the odds, with the World Food Programme (WFP) working with its implementing partners to reel people back from the brink, gaining access to Cité Soleil. Hunger levels remain extremely worrying however.