World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Breakthrough in the skies: UNHAS.
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World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Protection and Accountability to Affected Population.
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WFP is due to run out of food stocks of wheat flour as early as October and requires immediate upfront funds to support the millions of people depending on WFP to deliver food.
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.
In the early 1990s, Seng missed classes and struggled to keep up with other children at her school in Cambodia’s central Kampong Thom Province.
At break times she sold rice noodles, sugarcane juice and ice cream made by her family.
This took its toll on her performance as a student.
This contribution comes as part of the “Food for Gaza” multistakeholder initiative led by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with key humanitarian actors – FAO, WFP and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - and the Italian Civil Protection, which aims to strengthen collaboration and facilitate access to food assistance in order to alleviate the suffe
In Somalia, the United Nation World Food Programme is delivering life-saving assistance to more people than ever before, reaching 3.7 million people with relief and over 300,000 with nutrition support - but famine is now an imminent reality unless immediate and drastic action is taken.
“What I’ve seen in Zambia is not just alarming, it is heartbreaking,” said Director McCain, after speaking with farming families in rural Zambia. “I met farmers who usually grow enough to feed their families and communities. This year they harvested nothing.
On a hot Wednesday afternoon, Atoumata Nimaga smilingly welcomes women – babies tied securely on their backs –arriving at a local health centre in the central Malian village of Dotembougou.
Not so long ago, the mother of three, who is in her twenties, faced hunger so severe that it put her then unborn child at risk.
