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.
The fast recovery and protection from loss and damages that access to climate risk insurance can provide helps countries and households to better manage the impacts of the climate crisis, which is why WFP is advancing financial protection as one avenue for building resilience to extreme weather events.
Given that women are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and tend to be more fo
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“Without additional fuel supplies, bakeries working with WFP will no longer be able to produce bread. Only two of our contracted bakeries have fuel to produce bread at the moment and tomorrow there might be none,” said WFP Representative in Palestine Samer Abdeljaber.
Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
When visiting families in Aleppo, you always need light to find the way — up several flights of stairs in the dark and the cold, wondering what we’ll see when a family opens a door. An empty refrigerator, no electricity and some old photos on the wall. This is what’s left after a decade of conflict in Syria.
Abo Hashim, who is in his forties, grew up in a city filled with beauty.
As a child growing up in the hills of Lolupe, in northern Kenya’s Turkana region, Alice Ekusi recalls her pastoralist parents never had to worry about feeding their large family.
“We lived off milk and meat,” Alice says of the family’s livestock, mainly goats and camels, remembering a past when rains were sufficient and dependable.
