WFP is integrating environmental considerations into its processes and collaborating with external stakeholders to develop innovative solutions that strengthen and improve its supply chain systems.
This Evaluation of Emergency School Feeding Activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2015 until 2019 is part of a four-country Evaluation Series on Emergency School Feeding (ESF) commissioned by the WFP School-based Programmes (SBP) Unit and made possible by a multi-year Canadian contribution to WFP.
The series provides accountability to Canada and other donors in the four
The COVID-19 pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering acute hunger, pushing it to more than a quarter of a billion by the end of 2020, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today as it and other partners released a new report on food crises around the world.
The number of people facing acute food insecurity (IPC/CH 3 or worse) will rise to 265 million in 2020, up by 13
As Corona-Virus cases soar, Latin America has become the region most impacted by COVID-19 globally, accounting for over a quarter of the world’s cases. The health pandemic is driving hunger and food insecurity which risks fuelling conflict and political unrest and forcing vulnerable families to migrate.
For five years straight Rosie Jameson, a mother of two and subsistence farmer in southern Malawi, couldn’t grow nearly enough on her one-hectare plot to feed her family.
Persistently severe drought—now a staple in a region where temperatures continue rising at twice the global average—saw to that.
She lives in the village of Joseph in the country’s drought-prone south, where most f
Iyesata Koroma wakes up before dawn in Pujehun, in the south of Sierra Leone, to the sound of a text message alert telling her she can collect her mobile money from the World Food Programme (WFP). This means she’ll be able to buy fresh food for four of her children today.
Mobile money helps families to access food when they need it the most.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP has continually assessed household vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity through monitoring surveys, while simultaneously providing technical assistance and operations support for programmes in response to the pandemic in the Asia Pacific region.
Based on these experiences and in cooperation with partners, WFP undertook a series of studies to bette