Chad is a landlocked Sahelian country in central Africa, with one of the highest levels of hunger in the world – 42 percent of its population live below the poverty line.
With COVID-19 containment measures limiting people’s movement, WFP has introduced measures to ensure that beneficiaries receive their entitlements in as safe a way as possible.
Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry in Afghanistan, WFP has warned today. For the first time, urban residents are suffering from food insecurity at similar rates to rural communities, which have been ravaged by drought twice in the past three years.
Asma Khan has long been a dedicated supporter of WFP and its causes. Asma advocated for WFP’s Women are Hungrier campaign, to draw attention to the central role women’s empowerment plays in ending hunger and transforming communities.
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.
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Tuesday 24 October
It’s already day 18 of this brutal war that has stripped away the life we love. I wish I could say my family and I have made it through so far – but have we really, if our loved ones were killed along the way?
These past 18 days feel more like 18 years.
A United Nations food security assessment in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has found that following the worst harvest in 10 years, due to dry spells, heatwaves and flooding, about 10.1 million people suffer from severe food shortages, meaning they do not have enough food until the next harvest.
The United Nations World Food Programme is on the ground responding to the food needs of the most vulnerable people across Lebanon whose incomes, jobs and lives have been affected by the triple shock of the blast, COVID-19, and economic crisis. WFP is also providing immediate relief following last week’s blasts.
WFP welcomed today’s opening of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, which enabled a first convoy of trucks to bring in urgently needed food, water and other supplies provided by the Egyptian Red Crescent and the United Nations for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been struggling amid desperate conditions.