Conflict and insecurity, rising inflation and the impact of the climate crisis continue to drive hunger in Nigeria – with 32 million people across the country projected to face acute hunger in the June-August 2024 lean season. This is a staggering increase from the 18.6 million people food insecure at the end of 2023.
WFP’s Medium-Term Programme Framework (MTPF) responding to the development emergency caused by COVID-19 sets out a high-level vision and new way of working for WFP to help countries mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic and build back better.
WFP will use the donation to scale up its current cash transfer operations from 20,000 to 94,000 families hit hard by the impacts of a poor 2020 harvest, lower earnings, rising prices and COVID-19.
The potential to improve children’s developmental outcomes by providing a morning meal in conjunction with school lunch is an important question with significant policy implications for school feeding programmes both in Armenia and worldwide.
Conflict, climate shocks, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and rising costs of living are leaving increasing numbers of children acutely malnourished while key health, nutrition and other life-saving services are becoming less accessible.
As Haiti picks up the pieces after devasting floods that hit some parts of the country in early June, other parts of the Caribbean country are reeling from drought which has intensified since January.
Distribution started during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. WFP distributed the dates to 150,000 children across 7 sub-districts in Barguna, Cox’s Bazar and Jamalpur districts.
Chad is a landlocked Sahelian country in central Africa, with one of the highest levels of hunger in the world – 42 percent of its population live below the poverty line.
Japanese national Itaru Furuta has been in Yemen since August 2018 working from the southwestern city of Ibb as a programme policy officer for the World Food Programme (WFP).