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The OPEC Fund Director-General Abdulhamid Alkhalifa met with WFP on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai and expressed the OPEC Fund’s support in combating global food insecurity and hunger.

Security Council Briefing on Yemen 17 June 2019 As Delivered — Watch the webcast I hope someday I can come here to brief you on some good news … Conflict ending … well-fed and healthy children … Regrettably, today is not that day. The humanitarian situation in Yemen is dire. And despite the immense suffering of the 20 million Yemenis who do not have enough to eat, we continue to fa

This additional cost to WFP’s operations could have been used to provide six million school children with a daily nutritious meal for six months.

The call came in response to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, released today.

“Following the US$ 1 million emergency food assistance in March of this year, we are pleased to announce our decision to provide US$ 4.4 million in life-saving food assistance to the Rohingya through WFP,” said H.E. Mr. Kiminori Iwama , Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh. “We hope that this grant will help alleviate the severe food crisis in the camps.

To date, WFP has delivered more than 235,000 food rations to people affected by the destruction of the dam across Khersonska and Mykolaivska oblasts.

Since 2010, the Government of Bangladesh has been investing in the national school feeding programme, with WFP as a key partner. By 2022, more than 3 million children in 104 sub-districts had been reached with fortified biscuits, and in some locations, hot meals.

According to WFP’s latest household assessment released in October 2022, approximately 17 percent (4.91 million) of people living in Nepal are food insecure, a significant increase from 13.2 percent in June 2022. WFP and partners will use data generated under this initiative to continuously assess the impact of the global food crisis and other shocks and stresses on household food security at t

Since the conflict broke out last year, hunger and acute malnutrition have soared.

The Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey, carried out jointly by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) found that 43 percent of the population - or three million people - are estimated to be food insecure in 22 countries and territories. These Small Island Developing States (SIDS) continue to grapple with high costs of food and inputs for prod