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Funds from the EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) have allowed WFP to provide unconditional food and cash distributions throughout 2020 in four of the most food-insecure are-as of Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua and Tillaberi regions.

I met Paola and baby Eunice last July in the department of San Marcos, Guatemala. They live in a small rural town which sits at the highest point of the municipality of Tejutla. At 8 months old, Eunice was diagnosed with acute malnutrition.  The news was devastating for Paola, but brigadistas — volunteers and staff of the Government’s health and nutrition brigades — are lu

While the full extent of needs will be revealed once ongoing assessments have been concluded, early indications are that the storm has further aggravated the precarious food security situation in Sofala province.

The contribution provided through the World Food Programme (WFP) will enable WFP to scale up its support over the next 3 years targeting 200,000 smallholder farmers in rural areas across Rwanda while working to sustainably transform agricultural markets to become more efficient, resilient and profitable. “New Zealand is proud to partner with the Farm to Market Alliance.  This partnership w

Three years ago, armed groups attacked Bintou’s village in northeastern Nigeria, destroying her home and killing many family members.  The 25-year-old mother was lucky. She and her four children escaped, crossing the Komadougou river into southern Niger, just a few kilometres away.

More than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to this report released by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and the World Food Programme (WFP).

While Uganda’s Karamoja region registered development gains recently, overall, since independence, there have been significant failures. WFP contracted Development Pathways to investigate the situation and generate ideas for innovative solutions.

Children are at the centre of a nutrition crisis, according to the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF. In a new report, led by the Unicef Office of Research – Innocenti, the UN agencies urge governments to prioritize the reopening of schools while making sure the health, food and nutritional needs of children are met through comprehensive school feeding programmes. “Missing o

In response to multiple natural hazards, such as droughts, earthquakes and flash floods, in 2014, WFP teamed up with the Rupani Foundation (RF), UNDP and UNEP to establish the Green Badakhshan Initiative (GBI), targeting six districts in eastern Badakhshan, all classified as having emergency or crisis food insecurity levels on the IPC scale.

The construction of the long awaited Njovo weir began in Masvingo, Zimbabwe in May 2018 as part of a broader multi-layered Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) project and was completed by November 2018 with the technical support of local NGO Aquaculture Zimbabwe.