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Executive Director McCain is in DRC where she visited a farm in N’sele, near Kinshasa.

The number of refugees in Uganda has almost tripled in the past ten years from over 600,000 in 2014 to 1.7 million in 2024.

As the world marks the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, the current global energy crisis is another wakeup call for clean and durable energy solutions that are also key to building food security. That message is all the more powerful today, as the war in Ukraine sends food and fuel prices soaring and contributes to an unprecedented rise in global hunger. That's why over the

South Sudan is on the frontlines of the climate crisis and millions in the country are living the daily reality of a worsening climate. More than one million people have been impacted by an unprecedented, multi-year flood event that is sweeping the nation, exacerbating high levels of hunger caused by ongoing conflict and the global food crisis.

This initiative is part of the Preparedness and Response Excellence in the Philippines (PREP) programme, supported by USAID, the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and others.

At 206 kg per person per year, the country’s per capita rice consumption is among the highest in the world (United States Department of Agriculture 2020) and rice is therefore an appropriate vehicle for food fortification to reduce the incidence of MNDs. WFP is currently conducting acceptability studies for fortified rice in government social protection programmes.

Effective for five years, the agreement was signed in New Delhi between Elisabeth Faure, WFP Country Director in India and Manoj Ahuja, Agriculture Secretary, Government of India, in the presence of Honourable Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.

It is midday in Halbul, in northern South Sudan, and farmer Nyandeng Noon Agany is visibly exhausted as she walks home in the harsh dry season heat, after spending hours harvesting rice.

Financially supported by DSM-FIRMENICH - a Swiss-Dutch company specialized in nutrition - the rice fortification initiative targets an initial 236 primary schools supported by WFP in Senegal including 101 schools in the Department of Matam.