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The World Food Programme (WFP) is in a “race against time” to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, its executive director David Beasley has warned.   A total 22.8 million people, more than half the population, face acute hunger as temperatures plummet below zero. “What’s happening in Afghanistan is just horrific,” said Beasley, who has just visited.

Aiming  to  fill  this  knowledge  gap,  considering  that  other  assessments  looked  at  topics  affecting  agriculture  such  as  desertification,  seawater  intrusion,  and  effects  from  the  armed  conflict,  however,  these  projects  did  n

To reduce extreme poverty, the Government of Tanzania introduced the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) based on integrated interventions including a labour-intensive public works and cash transfers programme targeting the poorest households. The objective of the PSSN, which is implemented by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), is to increase income and consumption, improve the ability to

Climate change is a long-term threat to food security and nutrition. By 2050, the risk of hunger and malnutrition could rise by 20 percent if the global community fails to act now to mitigate and prevent the adverse effects of climate change. The majority of child deaths expected to occur as a result of climate change will be driven by undernutrition.

WFP provides Syrian refugees and refugees of other nationalities with cash-based assistance through electronic cards, allowing them to meet their basic needs by either buying food items in any of 400+ contracted shops across Lebanon or withdrawing cash from ATMs to spend on what they need.

ROME – According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million from the previous year.

South Sudan is simultaneously drowning and drying as the climate crisis tightens its grip. An unprecedented flooding crisis has swallowed large swathes of the country while other parts are grappling with devastating drought.

Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, the United Nations World Food Programme has warned. With nearly eight million people – half the population – now food insecure, WFP plans to double the number of people it assists - up to 4.1 million

SANA’A – Yemen is at a tipping point as conflict and economic woes drag the country to the brink of famine and risk cancelling out the gains made through humanitarian action in the past few years, the United Nations World Food Programme warns today.

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.