WFP has worked together with FAO to strengthen the resilience of communities in fragile states by reviving agricultural production and commodity markets that have been damaged by years of armed conflict in DRC.
Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
It’s 10:00 when Brian Langdon, deputy Logistics Cluster coordinator in charge of the COVID-19 response plan in South Sudan, gets his first call of the day. A newly arrived World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian kicking off two weeks quarantine in Juba is checking in.
Ekta was a promising and committed young professional who was committed to using her skills to ensure food reached some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The meeting was borne out of the realization of a need for a new way to look at and address problems in the world’s food systems in order to attain the Sustainable Development Goal 2 of Zero Hunger by 2030.
Funds are required immediately if WFP is to meet the growing needs of the hardest-hit Zimbabweans. It plans to more than double the number of people it is helping by January to 4.1 million, providing life-saving rations of cereal, pulses and vegetable oil and a protective nutrition ration for children under 5 years of age.
“We’re deep into a vicious cycle of sky-rocketing malnutrition tha