In collaboration with the Government of Burkina Faso, WFP will airlift more than 3,500 metric tons of food consisting of maize meal, pulses, and vegetable oil in 14 localities under blockade in the Sahel region. This assistance is intended to meet the emergency food and nutrition needs of 178,000 women, men, and children.
GENEVA – The United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) fears about record levels of hunger in Sudan have been confirmed. Shortly after the conflict broke out in April, WFP forecast that hunger would rise to engulf more than 19 million people in the coming months.
With support from the authorities in Goma, and other actors, WFP was able to deliver 26 metric tons of special nutritious food to 8,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in 12 health centers across Rutshuru Territory.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to link its governments and partners’ social protection and disaster risk reduction programmes with a more comprehensive set of innovative tools including disaster risk management, risk transfer, and financial inclusion.
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“Nearly a third of the population of Afghanistan currently does not know where their next meal will come from and they urgently need humanitarian food security assistance,“ said Ambassador Takayoshi Kuromiya, “Japan continues to stand with the people of Afghanistan and also invests into the future of the country through our support to WFP’s work with primary school girl and boy students.”
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Market-based disaster risk financing solutions, such as macro insurance policies purchased by governments to cover disaster losses, can enable faster, more cost-effective and predictable responses to climate and disaster shocks.
The Eastern Africa region continued to face increased humanitarian needs in 2023 driven by a combination of interconnected factors such as conflict, climate hazards, and economic shocks. Over five years, the number of food insecure people in the region doubled, reaching 63 million.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, good morning to you all.
As you have heard from our previous speakers, one thing is very clear from the latest edition of the State of Food Security report: the world is badly off-track in our efforts to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.
Despite our collective commitment, with only six years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more