The United Nations World Food Programme today announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries.
To tackle the rising tide of hunger, WFP is undertaking the biggest humanitarian response in its history, ram
This summary applied the approach and methods set out in WFP’s Technical Note on Summaries of Evaluation Evidence:
Evidence was systematically extracted from evaluations judged to be of at least ‘satisfactory’ quality in independent assessment, using an analytical framework reflecting key areas of interest identified at the framing stage.
Evidence was analysed and clustered around analytic
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
It’s a misty winter dawn in Lima. As the sun rises over the sleepy city, its main wholesale food market, in the Santa Anita district, comes alive.
Every morning, 5,000 metric tons of vegetables, tubers and fruit leave this market to be sold across the metropolitan area.
Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, commented: “The economic and financial downturn, the COVID-19 pandemic and most recently, the explosions at the port of Beirut, have left thousands of families with no access to livelihoods, no assets and no adequate social protection.
A group of Kenyan women sits in a circle one recent afternoon, a metal box in the middle. It looks like a toolbox except for three telltale locks. Pocket-sized record books lie strewn on the floor. Money changes hands – many times.
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
Ahlen could hardly be blamed for feeling the cards are permanently stacked against her.
A devastating sequence of events began for the 38-year-old from the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar in 2014 when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took over her city.
To get away, in 2015 she undertook a perilous four-day journey from Tal Afar to Turkey via Syria to beg