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“The past two years have been particularly difficult for the people living in border communities of Armenia.

Organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the event recognized the contribution of women and girls around the world who play a crucial role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is in a “race against time” to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, its executive director David Beasley has warned.   A total 22.8 million people, more than half the population, face acute hunger as temperatures plummet below zero. “What’s happening in Afghanistan is just horrific,” said Beasley, who has just visited.

This article marks the International Day of Education (24 January) which recognizes that 258 million children and youth still do not attend school... and celebrates learning heroes Each morning you can find Assoura Mahamadou hard at work at his butcher’s shop on the outskirts of Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu.

The construction of the long awaited Njovo weir began in Masvingo, Zimbabwe in May 2018 as part of a broader multi-layered Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) project and was completed by November 2018 with the technical support of local NGO Aquaculture Zimbabwe.

The initiative is a partnership of the Issyk Kul Regional Development Foundation, Good Neighbors International in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the United Nations World Food Programme’s Optimising the National School Meals programme for the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Partners supported the construction of the greenhouse to ensure that the children can enjoy organic

Providing independent, credible and useful evaluation evidence for operational, accountability and institutional knowledge purposes

“This incredibly timely contribution will help us provide much-needed support for both Ukrainian refugees and Moldovan host communities,“ said WFP Representative in Moldova Katrien Ghoos.

The United Nations World Food Programme is today warning that unless humanitarian access is urgently granted to organizations like the WFP, catastrophic levels of hunger could hit hard in parts of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The stark warning comes ahead of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on the Central Sahel in Copenhagen on 20 October 2020.

According to WFP’s latest household assessment released in October 2022, approximately 17 percent (4.91 million) of people living in Nepal are food insecure, a significant increase from 13.2 percent in June 2022. WFP and partners will use data generated under this initiative to continuously assess the impact of the global food crisis and other shocks and stresses on household food security at t