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In Niger, over 3.3 million women, men, and children (13 per cent of the total population) are severely food insecure. Maternal mortality rates are high, with 1 in 226 pregnant women dying from pregnancy-related causes.

6 October, 08:30 - ‘We can’t start without coffee’  We’ve already driven one hour from Coro, the capital of Falcón state where, in July, after 46 years, the World Food Programme (WFP) marked its return to Venezuela with a new school meals programme.

 At one end of a junkyard – next to the rusty husk of an old bus and the broken remains of a 1958 Chevrolet Daley – Edith Ndebele carefully turns a metal drum heated by firewood, keeping an eye on the peanuts tumbling around inside. The roast she’s perfected flavours the thick, creamy peanut butter her customers love in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, in the southwestern provin

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.

WFP has stepped up its emergency response to support victims of the devastating earthquake in Syria and Türkiye, providing emergency food assistance to nearly two million quake-affected people in the two countries through hot meals, emergency ready-to-eat food packages and family food rations.

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

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

The programme has already started in Kharkivska oblast, and will later expand to Mykolaivska and Khersonska oblasts, focusing on farmers with land plots smaller than 300 hectares as well as rural families growing food for their own consumption. The programme is designed to safely release land back to productive use, including by clearing it from mines and other explosive remnants of the war, to

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

The new agreement, valued at US$33 million, comes under the U.S.