Search

“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?

In what was once a classroom, 13-year-old Ahmed sits in front of a blank chalkboard. He has not attended school for months.

 A map of soil moisture levels – from NASA’s Earth Observatory – makes Southern Africa look like the lung of a person in need of urgent medical care. Red blotches mark concentrations of drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon – a slow-onset wrecker that arrived in July, leaving parched fields and a rise in ‘acute’ hunger in its wake.The solution is simple.

Nyanchiew Chung is trapped in a cycle of despair.

 It’s 10:00 when Brian Langdon, deputy Logistics Cluster coordinator in charge of the COVID-19 response plan in South Sudan, gets his first call of the day. A newly arrived World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian kicking off two weeks quarantine in Juba is checking in.

There are 734 million people going hungry around the world, 122 million more than in 2019, according to newly released UN figures for 2022. Launched last week by agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), ‘The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2023’ (SOFI) report estimates 29.6 percent of the world’s population, around 2.4 billion people,

ROME – According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million from the previous year.

Chantal Matiko has been a driver for WFP in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2009. Here she talks about the challenges of the job, including surviving an armed ambush. "I am from a city called Bunia in the northeastern Ituri province. I had no vocation to become a driver — there was none among my family or friends.

Earlier this month, an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report already warned that by November more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population will face severe food insecurity. It forecast that a large group would be in an “emergency phase” of need, while others would face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.

ROME – Inclusive access to digital technologies and education is crucial to reducing gender inequalities and empowering rural women and girls – that was the message from three United Nations’ food and agriculture agencies as they marked International Women’s Day 2023. Participants at the event, co-organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Internati