Based on field research carried out in Burkina Faso and Rwanda, this paper provides an analysis of what drives smallholder farmers when deciding about when, where and how to market their produce.
The overall objectives of Comprehensive Food Security Monitoring Exercise (CFSME) 2016 are to assess current levels of refugee food security, identify trends in needs and vulnerabilities, and recognise the most vulnerable refugees. In turn, this informs WFP targeting and supports the prioritisation of families and households requiring urgent assistance.
This report outlines the results of a study conducted jointly by WFP and the FATA Secretariat in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Rescue Committee (IRC), the Food Security Cluster and the FATA Disaster Management Authority (FDMA).
Syrian mother Um Abdullah shares with us a simple, nourishing dish, as part of our series exploring the tastes of home for refugees and displaced families supported by the World Food Programme.
U m Abdullah and her family fled their home in Hassakeh Governorate in Syria more than a year ago after the so-called Islamic State took over the town.
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) is a strategic partnership between Oxfam America (OA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). R4 was initiated in 2011 to respond to the challenges faced by food-insecure communities enduring increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters and other shocks.
The study - ‘Impact of climate related shocks and stresses on nutrition and food security in rural Bangladesh’ – was commissioned by the World Food Programme and conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and Helen Keller International (HKI).