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Our Emergencies and Transitions Team ensures that WFP country offices have a framework designed to plan effective and efficient interventions in emergency situations.
In recent years, the World Food Programme (WFP) has been managing complex emergencies, natural disasters, and epidemics and pandemics. Emergency preparedness refers to a set of elements that allows us and our partners to be effective, efficient and timely when crises erupt.
Ten years ago, on 8 November 2013, Super Typhoon Yolanda (known internationally as Typhoon Haiyan) hit the Philippines. One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, it devastated much of the country and especially the eastern landmass of Leyte.
There’s no global security without food security. Global food security is the cornerstone for a safer, more prosperous world. The good news? Ending hunger in our lifetime IS possible. G7 leaders and all leaders around the world are expected to take action.
Sudan is sliding into catastrophe, with famine conditions recorded in the Zamzam camp for displaced people near the conflict-riven town of El Fasher in North Darfur.
This figure represents a four-million increase in the number of people who are food-insecure compared to the November 2023 forecast and highlights a fourfold increase over the last five years. The situation is particularly worrying in conflict-affected northern Mali, where an estimated 2,600 people are likely to experience catastrophic hunger (IPC/CH phase 5).
Contributing to SDG 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women, and working with communities, partners and Governments, WFP adopted a gender transformative approach in its programming. These included intentionally targeted women to strengthen their resilience, nutrition and food security.
