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Uganda is often described as Africa’s breadbasket, but it still faces a multipronged challenge in eradicating hunger. Floods earlier this year followed a prolonged drought.

Most school days, 11-year-old Hazra, who lives in a village in Afghanistan’s eastern Jalalabad province, begins class on an empty stomach. “Sometimes I have tea and some bread for breakfast, but most days I come to school without eating anything,” says the sixth-grade schoolgirl, who wears a white headscarf and long dark robe, like her fellow classmates. “I am hungry,” she adds, “and it

The funding, a response to the Government of Zambia’s Drought Response Appeal, enables WFP to provide immediate recovery assistance to the affected population, through a Drought Recovery project. This will help farming families return to production, rebuild their livelihoods, and enhance their capacities to cope with future climate risks. Under the project, which will be implemented unti

Overall, the evaluation found that WFP has made important steps towards meeting PSEA commitments. Even with its lean capacity, the Ethics Office has taken the agenda forward corporately, providing valuable guidance and support to focal points globally.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Food Programme (WFP), warn that the most vulnerable, especially refugees, are hardest hit by food insecurity, which continues to be driven globally by conflict, displacement, economic shocks, climate crises and the COVID-19 pandemic. “Conflict and climate stresses are destroying lives

 At one end of a junkyard – next to the rusty husk of an old bus and the broken remains of a 1958 Chevrolet Daley – Edith Ndebele carefully turns a metal drum heated by firewood, keeping an eye on the peanuts tumbling around inside. The roast she’s perfected flavours the thick, creamy peanut butter her customers love in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, in the southwestern provin

These documents present the support that governments in West African region will need from partners such as the World Food Programme (WFP), other UN agencies, International Financing Institutions (IFIs), donors, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and civil society to implement their national commitments. For each national commitment, the required support activities and t

WFP has stepped up its emergency response to support victims of the devastating earthquake in Syria and Türkiye, providing emergency food assistance to nearly two million quake-affected people in the two countries through hot meals, emergency ready-to-eat food packages and family food rations.

For the fifth consecutive year, erratic weather patterns –prolonged dry spells and excessive rains—have decimated maize and bean crops in the Dry Corridor of Central America.

Like most of the people fleeing the fighting in Sudan, Safa is dealing with trauma. After living without water and electricity for days after the breakout of conflict in the country on 15 April, her family woke up to the sound of explosions.