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More than 31 million people in the region are expected to be food insecure and unable to feed themselves during the coming June-August lean season – the period when food is scarce before the next harvest.

The donation consists of 68 containers of rice and 4 containers of lentils (1,290 metric tons in total) and will be used to cook school lunches for some 90,000 primary school children in rural areas of Lao PDR starting with the next term in September.

World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley has warned that in addition to the threat posed by COVID-19, the world faces "multiple famines of biblical proportions" that could result in 300,000 deaths per day — a "hunger pandemic". Speaking at an online briefing broadcast by the UN on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, Beasley highlighted the fact that there are currently 821

Since 2008, the U.S. government’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has been supporting the WFP school meals programme in Laos with contributions totaling more than US$60 million.

Everyone in Gaza is hungry and each day is a desperate search for food. People often go the entire day and night without eating. Adults go hungry so children can eat. According to the latest data, the risk of famine increases each day as the conflict limits the delivery of life saving humanitarian assistance to people in need.

Three consecutive years of drought coupled with a sharp recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a third of the population in Southern Madagascar struggling to put food on the table. With severe malnutrition rates continuing to spiral and many children forced to beg in order to help their families eat, urgent action is required to prevent a humanitarian crisis.

Fortunately, since we talked about this back in April the world really listened. Donors, leaders all over the world responded, they acted. Countries large and small took extraordinary measures to save the lives of their citizens and support their economies, spending $17 trillion on fiscal stimulus and central bank support.

Rome – Three United Nations agencies today launched a new European Union-supported global initiative to address the root causes of rural gender inequalities and thus strengthen efforts to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. The EU will allocate 5 million euros to finance the four–year programme of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Orga

LISTEN TO WFP USA HACKING HUNGER PODCAST By Liam Brown As the coronavirus pandemic threatens to double the number of people suffering from acute hunger by the end of the year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is bolstering its response.

The Market Monitor Reports intend to provide up-to-date and relevant contextual information about the impact of Covid-19 and agricultural stressors on markets in Timor-Leste. WFP support the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the General Directorate of Statistics to conduct food price monitoring using Open Data Kit (ODK) tools.