The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) results for Sudan say 9.8 million people are projected to be acutely food insecure (IPC Phase 3 and above) across the country throughout the lean season from June through September.
More than 20 percent of Sudan’s population is projected to be facing acute food insecurity starting this month, the highest figure reported in the histo
High costs of fuel and food – the latter has risen by 62 percent year-on-year – are putting staples like rice and cooking oil increasingly out of reach for many.
Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
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WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.
This decentralized endline evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Bangladesh Country Office and covers the USDA McGovern Dole 2017-2020 grant. It was carried out in 2020 and finalized in 2021.
The endline evaluation was commissioned under the requirements of the USDA grant and serves several critical purposes intended for accountability and learning.
The floods hit West Africa as world leaders prepare to meet on the climate crisis at COP27 in Egypt and highlight the urgent need to help communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis adapt, expand solutions that address loss and damage incurred during climate-related disasters, and invest in climate action in fragile contexts.
“Families in West Africa have already been pushed to the limi
Liberee Kayumba, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, has seen the horrors of war first-hand. She was only 12 years old when she lost her parents and brothers in the genocide – a trauma that was further compounded by the immediate risk of starvation.
“I spent three months inside my house not knowing if I would survive until the next hour,” she says.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its emergency operation in eastern Ukraine to provide in total over 500,000 conflict-affected people with food assistance until the end of the year.
This is almost triple the number of people WFP has been reaching since November 2014 through food distributions in the Donestsk and Luhansk oblasts.