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As a businesswoman, Mirriam Chipulu has one key aim: keeping her customers happy. In her line of work — food processing and retail — this means providing food that is healthy, affordable... and good. That might sound simple but it’s not easy.

The government preliminary data on the storm’s impact in Inhambane, Sofala, Gaza and Maputo provinces, indicate that more than 48,000 people have been affected and over 23,000 students and teachers are unable to attend classes. More than 10,000 houses have been partially or completely destroyed.

The latest Integrated Food Security Phase, IPC analysis released by the government found that 25.8 million people continue to face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity triggered by poor harvests, violence-driven displacement, disease, unemployment, and collapsing infrastructure. The report shows that areas worst affected by food insecurity include Djugu and Masisi in Ituri and Rutshuru

WFP Chief David Beasley addressed the UN Security Council to warn that in many vulnerable countries the economic effects of the COVID19 pandemic could cause more deaths from hunger than the virus itself especially in areas of conflict like NE Nigeria, DR Congo, Yemen and South Sudan. “This is obviously a great danger that many more people will die from the broader economic and social consequences

Winter has cast an icy grip over the eastern Ukrainian village of Kamianka.

In Somalia, the United Nation World Food Programme is delivering life-saving assistance to more people than ever before, reaching 3.7 million people with relief and over 300,000 with nutrition support - but famine is now an imminent reality unless immediate and drastic action is taken.

The arrival of the first trucks in Gaza is a first step towards a food lifeline for the hundreds of thousands of people facing desperate conditions. But much more access and assistance is urgently needed, and the flow of supplies needs to be scaled up radically.

The most recent El Niño event is one of the five strongest on record and has led to significant alterations in weather patterns around the world exacerbating the impacts of the global climate crisis, resulting in more frequent and intense droughts, floods and tropical cyclones.

UN appeals for urgent assistance as country becomes one of the world’s largest food crises. More than half the population of Afghanistan – a record 22.8 million people - will face acute food insecurity from November, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report

For almost 20 years, Eam Sokhan, 45, has been overseeing the implementations of school meal programmes in her native Cambodia. Currently, Sokhan is the principal of Doun Aov Primary School in Angkor Thom District, Siem Reap Province. Her school embraces 412 students, almost half of whom are girls.   ‘When I grew up in 1980s, we didn’t have such a programme.