Smallholder farmers across the world are highly vulnerable to climate-related risks, such as droughts, floods and storms, with very limited access to the risk financing tools and services that can provide protection from the resulting financial losses.
WFP established the “Berd cooperative” aggregating local farmers into a formal partnership to develop sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food value chains by strengthening farmers’ economic capacity to grow and preserve food, through the use of solar energy.
The EU’s funding will be used to scale up WFP’s cash transfers operations to reach families hardest-hit by the impacts of a poor harvest, rising food prices and the prolonged secondary effects of COVID-19 in the rural, urban and peri-urban areas of the Manzini, Lubombo and Hhohho regions.
There are many ways to support WFP’s mission to eliminate hunger, from making a donation that helps us reach vulnerable people worldwide to partnering with us to contribute capacity and expertise to our work saving and changing lives.
Arriving at the Ukrainian border, you get a sense that you’re entering a conflict zone. You are greeted with huge barricades, young soldiers fortifying them with sandbags.
That feeling stays with you: this is unsafe territory. Driving into Ukraine, for every car I saw I probably saw three massive tractors hauling agricultural equipment.
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.
Every year, the World Food Programme (WFP) rehabilitates almost 200,000 hectares of land around the world – more than twice the size of New York City.
Currently, at a time of unprecedented hunger, 33 percent of global soils are degraded, directly affecting half of the world’s population, particularly in rural areas.