The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on how people earn a living and meet critical needs. The Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact Survey was launched by CARICOM to rapidly gather data on impacts to livelihoods, food security and access to markets.
Investigation in Laprak finds rice is not from the World Food Programme (WFP). Our statement on investigation findings in Nepali language can be downloaded here.
A record number of people — 6.9 million or more than 60 percent of South Sudan's entire population — do not know where their next meal will come from as hunger peaks during the lean season from May to July.
Read the WFP, UNICEF, FAO and WHO joint call to action here.
Children are not the face of this pandemic, but they are at risk of becoming its biggest victims.