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Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the agreement was signed in Islamabad between Rathi Palakrishnan, WFP Country Director a.i in Pakistan and Rehmat Dashti, Project Director, P&D Department of the Government of Balochistan. “I am confident that the partnership between the Government of Balochistan and WFP will help us achieve our joint nutrition targets.

While the food assistance has been designed to meet the minimum recommended 2,100 kilocalories, chronic funding shortfalls have forced WFP to provide reduced rations since 2020. Earlier this year (March), further reductions were made, dropping the ration from meeting 80 percent of the food needs to 65 percent.

This comes after the food agency had exhausted all options, including this month reducing the value of its cash assistance by one-third for all refugees living outside camps. "WFP is extremely concerned that scaling back assistance will bring considerable hardship to vulnerable refugee families and worsen their food security status which is already on the edge,” said WFP Representative and Coun

At the current level of funding for the calendar year, WFP lacks the resources to provide food assistance to a total of 750,000 people who are in urgent need.

Christine, her son, and her mother are among 100,000 refugees, mostly women and children, living in a camp in north-western Uganda, served by the World Food Programme and its partners.

As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical. WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.

The project, expected to benefit over 12,000 farmer households in nearly 540 villages, will support smallholder agriculture value chains in four of the country’s most vulnerable districts - Zhemgang, Tsirang, Trongsa, and Sarpang – which also hold a strong potential for commercial farming.

Japan’s contribution comes at a critical time, with more than 260,000 people facing crisis and emergency food insecurity levels at the peak of the lean season from October to March next year, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis.   “We are very grateful to the Government of Japan,” says Deepak Shah, WFP’s Head of Office in Eswatini.

“Without additional fuel supplies, bakeries working with WFP will no longer be able to produce bread. Only two of our contracted bakeries have fuel to produce bread at the moment and tomorrow there might be none,” said WFP Representative in Palestine Samer Abdeljaber.

The mud structures housing some of Nepal's poorest people never stood a chance – survivors of Friday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake, which killed 157 people in the country, are sleeping rough after their homes were destroyed. The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Nepal and partners in mobilizing relief supplies for families who find themselves suddenly without their hom