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
Satellite imagery has shown floodplains that included an “inland ocean” 125km by 25km, the size of Luxembourg.
WFP has launched a major operation rushing supplies to the area and has so far reached more than 115,000 people with emergency food assistance.
Helicopters are airdropping High Energy Biscuits and specialized foods to prevent and treat malnutrition to stranded commun
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.
It's a chilly winter morning in June when I visit Oppah Kanongara at her home in Hopley, a chaotic suburb in the south-west of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.
Food supplies are being stockpiled in the Egyptian city of Al Arish and close to the Gaza border, to be dispatched as soon as border access is granted. The World Food Programme (WFP) needs unimpeded access, and safe passage for desperately needed humanitarian supplies into Gaza.