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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.

WFP adopts a needs- and rights-based approach, integrating gender, protection, and disability perspectives into its project design, implementation, and evaluation.

WFP requires US$161 million immediately to avert a suspension of its refugee assistance programme over the next six months and provide life-saving assistance to crisis-affected communities in Chad including 519,000 Sudanese and Central African refugees. Refugee communities in Chad already face severe malnutrition levels, with some areas seeing acute malnutrition rates of over 19% and chronic ma

For the past few weeks, entry points into Gaza have been virtually sealed except through the Rafah border crossing point. While there has been a steady increase in aid entering Gaza, it is nowhere near enough to meet the exponentially growing needs.  "Right now, parents in Gaza do not know whether they can feed their children today and whether they will even survive to see tomorrow.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for urgent funds to respond to the growing crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  More than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in eastern DRC since January, bringing to 5.5 million the total number of internally displaced people (IDP) in the region.

Sana’a – Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm that could reverse hard-earned food security gains in Yemen, warns the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food P

Think of what you ate today. How much of it did you grow, gather or kill yourself?

 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accounts for one of the world’s largest internal displacement crises, with a stunning 6.5 million people uprooted. The majority are spread across four eastern provinces, where non-state armed groups proliferate and conflict rages. But there’s another threat to humanitarian access in the region: disinformation.

The focus of the evaluation was to understand the way markets operate in South Sudan and Bangladesh through assessing the wide range of Market Development Activities (MDAs) and Retail Engagements Activities (REAs) implemented as part of cash based transfer (CBT) interventions. The objective was to capture the outcomes of market development and supply chain activities and identify ways to evol