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The Director-General of FAO Qu Dongyu, the President of IFAD Alvaro Lario, and the Executive Director of WFP Cindy McCain visited communities who are grappling with the effects of severe weather events, which, coupled with a lack of infrastructure, are worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis, threatening farms and agro-pastoral livelihoods, and displacing communities. The visit comes after

Driven by intense monsoon rains since late June, severe flooding has impacted over 200,000 people in Myanmar, with many temporarily displaced.

Despite countries’ high vulnerability to weather- and climate-related disasters most disaster response finance across the Asia Pacific region is arranged and provided post-disaster, typically using budget reallocations, emergency borrowing and humanitarian aid.   There is, however, a wide range of instruments that could potentially be arranged in advance of a shock.

With this contribution, WFP will procure essential food supplies, including maize and split peas, for distribution, over a period of six months, to vulnerable households in Gwembe, Siavonga and Sinazongwe districts of Southern province.

This report offers a comprehensive insight into UNHCR and WFP joint cash assistance programme for basic needs for Syrian refugees in Lebanon in 2023.

Despite progress in collective actions to address food insecurity in the country, the Food Security Assessment among the Colombian Population - carried out in late 2023 - also reveals that half of Colombian households are in a situation of marginal food security and are at risk of sliding into a more severe situation as a result of external shocks.

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Breakthrough in the skies: UNHAS.           Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

“Some cows refused to cross the water,” says cattle farmer Eric Mutabazi, recalling the days when it took hours to find a safe place to cross the Lwizi river, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Tanganyika province. Its treacherous waters meant “the safety of my livestock and my income were at stake,” he says. But what could Mutabazi do?

Stressing that food is a basic human right, in his opening remarks, QU Dongyu the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), described this year’s World Food Day theme “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future” as a timely reminder that all people have the right to adequate foods.

The principle that social protection systems have an important role to play in disaster response has become well established over the last decade, and even more so since the COVID-19 pandemic.