The EU funding provided to WFP earlier this year was vital to helping the most vulnerable communities through the crucial June-October period, when people’s food stocks run out and market prices are the highest, limiting people’s access to food.
Through this funding, WFP will be able to procure and deliver approximately 25,600 metric tonnes of maize by June 2020, which will be distributed to vulnerable people across Zimbabwe through the GoZ’s food assistance programme, the Food Deficit Mitigation Strategy (FDMS).
Abu Tarek can clearly remember when his life was full of joy, his house was full of family and his table was full of so much food that he would give it away to those who were less fortunate.
While waiting in line at a WFP food distribution in Mleha, Eastern Ghouta, he says his mind is elsewhere. It's far from the empty streets and buildings that have been abandoned after years of conflict.
Families across Syria are under unprecedented economic pressures. Food prices have soared, and the cost of staple foods is now 247% higher than one year ago.
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.
Coming in the backdrop of the 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the recently concluded 26th United Nations Climate Change conference that have put a strong focus on the ongoing climate crisis, the regional conference featured speakers and participants from the Asia region.
In order to understand if the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted food availability and access at markets in Cambodia, WFP monitors the retail and wholesale prices of key food commodities in 45 urban and rural markets across the country.
The nine-truck convoy, carrying 280 metric tons of food– enough to feed 20,000 people for a month—was loaded in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa and took three days to reach Kapoeta, east of South Sudan’s capital Juba.