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In these countries, WFP is bringing together investments in infrastructure, insurance and financial inclusion for farmers -particularly women-, connecting their produce to value-added food markets, anticipating extreme weather events and informing them in real time of changing seasonal patterns.

The decision to pause deliveries to the north of the Gaza Strip has not been taken lightly, as we know it means the situation there will deteriorate further and more people risk dying of hunger.

Andrew Zimmern ducked into a greenhouse at Gwembe Primary School in southern Zambia to check out the next harvest.

Seven earthquakes with magnitudes reaching 6.3 and multiple aftershocks have struck Herat Province in Western Afghanistan within eight days. Dozens of villages are affected, many of them entirely flattened with at least 1,400 people killed and more than 1,800 injured, according to official figures. The majority of victims are women and children.

Extreme weather and climate events heighten humanitarian needs in Madagascar and around the world warns World Food Programme just days ahead of report launch by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A recent analysis conducted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the ongoing hostilities are worsening the drivers of child malnutrition. These include a lack of access to nutritious food, safe drinking water and sanitation, and increased risk of disease.

With much of the world’s commercial transport systems, particularly airlines, grounded by COVID-19, WFP - the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger and a global leader in logistics – has stepped in to move passengers and huge volumes of health and other supplies needed in the fight against the global pandemic.

Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days.