Narrow alleys twist and turn down the slope snaking between the closely packed tin shacks. This maze of paths contains the hundreds of homes that make up Moroto Simitini.
The village is in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency cash to families who have lost incomes due to COVID-19.
With support from WFP, the Government of Iraq implemented this Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR), under the lead of Dr. Mehdi al-Alak, Secretary General of the Iraq Council of Ministers.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart.
In Israel, some 1,400 people have been killed and thousands have been injured, according to the Israeli authorities.
One in two schoolchildren, or 388 million children worldwide, were receiving school meals when the pandemic struck, the highest number in history, according to the State of School Feeding Worldwide report.
“My country’s suffering from one of the worst crises of the 21st century,” says Nour Abdallah — as a field monitor for the World Food Programme (WFP), her job is to ensure that the right food reaches the people who need it the most in Syria.
Food prices across the country are skyrocketing — the cost of basic food items is up a staggering 313 percent on figures for 2019.
Of the total contribution, US$5.7 million will enable WFP to provide life-saving food assistance to 177,000 people in Burkina Faso during the upcoming lean season from June when most community food stocks are depleted before the next harvest in late September.
Japan is also providing US$ 3 million to improve food security and nutrition and prevent acute malnutrition in Niger.
“The FNG report will help us better understand the barriers in accessing nutritious food among different households,” said Justino dos Santos, Secretary, KONSSANTIL.
A global network spanning 41 countries, SUN BN aims to reduce malnutrition in all its forms through engaging and supporting businesses to act, invest and innovate in responsible and sustainable actions and operations to improve nutrition.
Just as demand for this service is reaching its peak, it could grind to a halt before the end of July unless substantial funding can be secured to keep WFP’s transport fleet moving.
The price monitoring intends to provide up-to-date and relevant contextual information about the impact of Covid-19 and agricultural stressors on markets in Timor-Leste. WFP support the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the General Directorate of Statistics to conduct food price monitoring using Open Data Kit (ODK) tools.