WFP has been downscaling its humanitarian response while strengthening linkages between humanitarian and resilience activities in Zimbabwe, as the country recorded its highest cereal harvest in 20 years. This factsheet outlines WFP’s key achievements in assisting food insecure populations in Zimbabwe in 2021.
The analysis of essential needs, how people meet them and where there are gaps or constraints to meeting them enriches insight into food insecurity, its drivers and how it is connected with meeting other needs.
As the world faces unprecedented crises – including the war in Ukraine – already fragile food systems are under immense pressure. This stress exposes the world’s most vulnerable populations to increased levels of hunger, poverty and food insecurity.
The quality of our lives and our ability to access the food we need is intimately connected with the health of our planet.
This new contribution will support WFP to provide 270,600 refugees with life-saving assistance over three months through electronic vouchers (e-vouchers). This programme allows refugees to purchase a variety of food items from 25 WFP e-voucher outlets across the Rohingya refugee camps.
Families receive an allocation of USD 9 (BDT 770) per person per month to spend at the e-voucher outlets.
Aflatoxin, produced by the fungus Aspergillus, thrives in a variety of crops and grains. Often consumed unknowingly in maize flours or maize-fed animal products such as milk, aflatoxin is associated with the suppression of the immune system, childhood malnutrition and is lethal in high doses.
Responding to the impacts of Covid-19, the Home Grown School Feeding project will provide nutritious and safe school meals to vulnerable primary school children by linking the National School Meal Programme with local smallholder farmers.
Growing up in northern Kenya, Paul Tergat and his family often lacked enough food for even just one simple meal a day. As a result, he rarely attended school: he just didn’t have the energy to make the three-mile journey there from his home in the drought-prone Baringo county.
The overall objectives of Learning and Accountability, the purpose of this decentralized evaluation was to:
Measure WFP’s contribution to emergency preparedness and response in Pakistan through the HRF network and provide accountability for results as a capacity development partner to the Government of Pakistan
Identify key enabling factors for capacity development initiatives.
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The Zambia Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and WFP, with the support of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and financial partners Mayfair, Zep Re and ACRE, collaborated on the design of an improved index insurance product for the Government of Zambia’s Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) for the 2021/22 seaso
GENEVA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is today warning that it will be forced to suspend its life-saving assistance to one million people - at the peak of the hunger season in February - unless additional funding is urgently received.
Cabo Delgado is the most food insecure province in Mozambique and food security continues to deteriorate.