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'The world produces enough food to feed everyone on our planet. Yet, 345 million people face the threat of starvation.

At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns today, with thousands of families being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week.

It’s more than 15 years since conflict forced Yahya Ishag Siyam to flee his home and seek refuge in the Krinding camps for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in western Sudan.  The signing of a peace agreement in October 2020 brought fresh hopes that Yahya and millions of other displaced people in Darfur would soon return home

Congolese singer-songwriter Innoss’B is no stranger to hardship – the 27-year-old was born Innocent Balume, in North Kivu, one of three regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo currently riven with fighting and food insecurity. To many young people, his success as a pioneer of the AfroCongo genre embodies the hope that dreaming big is possible, despite the odds – across the DRC, more

Established in 2001 under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Adaptation Fund finances adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. “The climate crisis is a major driver of hunger,” says Saliha Dobardzic, Lead for Programming and Innovation at the Adaptation Fund.

The evaluation had the dual objective of assessing the performance of the project (accountability) and learning valuable lessons for its future (learning). The evaluation covered and applied mixed methods to six evaluation criteria. Overarching evaluation questions included: To what extent does the intervention meet the needs and priorities of the government, stakeholders and affected

The document provides a roadmap for how WFP will support countries in Asia and the Pacific to achieve their social protection goals. The plan focuses on strengthening social protection to ensure food security, nutrition and basic needs while managing risks and shocks, and builds on decades of experience to consolidate WFP's approach for the coming years.

South Sudan is facing one of its hungriest years since independence with 7.76 million people expected to be in crisis or worse levels of hunger (IPC3+).

This paper explains the collaboration of WFP with the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) to strengthen local weather and climate prediction products through enhanced observations, serving as essential tools for climate adaptation, resilience development, and anticipatory action projects.

Energy is vital within humanitarian settings and in vulnerable areas to enable improved livelihoods, preventing shocks and building resilience. It is also a necessary condition for development and underpins the achievement of two-thirds of the SDFs.