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Preliminary crop assessment figures in West Africa indicate that the 2018/19 aggregate cereal production will be 74.2 million metric tons (MMT), eight percent above last season (2017/18) and 19 percent above the five-year average (2013/14 to 2017/18).

It was intended for both accountability and learning and focuses on assessing: i) the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, coverage and coherence of the intervention; ii) its results; and iii) the factors explaining the results. The evaluation, which makes a number of recommendations for the future, was conducted by IRAM, with fieldwork taking place in April-May 2018.

Download video material here: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/h0hzPQa6z7 Download photos here: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/OBwZxmxmph “We are working not only to save lives on an urgent basis, but also to contain the virus so that it doesn’t spread further,” said Susana Rico, WFP Emergency Coordinator in Beni.

Insecurity continues to impede WFP’s ability to reach populations with food assistance. This week, a planned mission to Mayendit county (Unity state) was cancelled because of a lack of security assurances. Moreover, as a result of fighting in Western Equatoria in the past weeks, WFP-contracted transporters are reluctant to restart deliveries along the Juba—Rumbek road.

Around 19% of all interviewed households in April – May 2016 were found to be food insecure.

The multi-platinum certified global star has made an initial donation of US$500,000 to the fund. In addition, to help launch the fund, The Weeknd is contributing US$1 from each ticket sold in North America for his highly anticipated After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour.

With the continental size of DRC and its poor infrastructure, air transport is the most viable means of travel. However, operational risk levels of local and other non-commercial air operators do not meet international aviation standards.

Almost half of Afghanistan’s population – 19.7 million people – are facing acute hunger according to the global standard for food insecurity, the IPC or Integrated Food Phase Classification.

“We are facing the biggest hunger and education crisis in history,” says Carmen Burbano, head of school feeding at the World Food Programme.  A report published by WFP today confirms 370 million children were robbed of access to nutritious meals when schools shut in 200 countries in April 2020 to halt the spread of COVID-19.  “As a matter of urgency, we need to make sure ch

It was 9am on a Saturday in late March when Aster, a mother of seven, turned from her kitchen stove to the horrifying sight of the bedroom she shared with her husband being set on fire.  She doesn’t remember much after that, except the smoke billowing through her home of 18 years. Like any mother, Aster’s first thought was her children. “I told them to run,” she says. “We al