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
Mozambique is one of the most disaster-prone places in the world. In a country where over 65 per cent of the population live in rural areas and most rely on agriculture as their source of income , the destruction caused by cyclones, droughts, floods and pests affects millions of people.
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.
Interview by Aina Andrianalizaha
“We don't count sleepless nights anymore,” says Theodore Mbainaissem, who heads the World Food Programme (WFP) sub-office in Ambovombe, southern Madagascar.
“Seeing the physical condition of people extremely affected by hunger who can no longer stand … children who are completely emaciated, the elderly who are skin and bone … these images are unbeara
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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.
Hundreds of schools have shuttered in Somalia this year amid a searing drought that pushed the East African nation to the edge of famine and risks erasing learning opportunities for thousands of children.
In Cape Verde and Sri Lanka, soaring food prices have deepened hunger and count among a mix of factors making state-run school meals programmes too costly for struggling governments.
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