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Women and girls are often said to be at the front line of hunger, which affects 828 million people around the world – why?  “If women have lower education rates, limited access to land inheritance, land ownership, credit, information such as weather forecasts [critical for smallholder farmers, many of whom are women], market information, limits on having capital assets, then we cannot

The United Nations World Food Programme today warned of an escalating humanitarian crisis driven by widespread violence and the long-term impact of climate change that has gripped Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries in the Central Sahel region of West Africa.

The 2021 Performance Report dashboard complements the report and provides key figures of the year in an interactive and visual way. The dashboard provides an overview of WFP’s programme performance at the global, regional and country level. Data are disaggregated by strategic results, strategic outcomes, outcome indicators, as well as by the sex and age of beneficiaries.

The agreement was signed by Gordan Grlić Radman, Foreign Minister of Croatia, and Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Country Director in Ukraine, in the presence of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Ukraine, Yuliia Svyrydenko. The €1 million contribution is Croatia’s largest ever donation to the UN World Food Programme.

“It’s a hotspot – a WiFi network on steroids,” says Patrick McKay of ‘R2C2’, the rapid response connectivity carrier he is flying in the car park of World Food Programme HQ in Rome, Italy. A keen paraglider, the South African is a drones data operations manager for the organization – in this US$80,000 piece of kit he’s found the perfect meeting point for his love of aviation, background in

 World Food Programme (WFP) teams across the Caribbean are taking stock of Hurricane Beryl impacts after it struck Jamaica on Wednesday afternoon as a dangerous category 4 hurricane.

DRC’s humanitarian emergency is especially challenging, given its combination of widespread inter-ethnic conflict, large-scale internal displacement, a protracted Ebola epidemic, donor fatigue and huge gaps between funding levels and requirements.

The main purpose of the summary report is to promote learning from evaluations and draw evidence for collective reflections to inform the design and implementation decisions on the school feeding activities in Congo. 

As part of expanded dialogue in recent months, Hungary recently contributed $US 3.5 million to WFP in support of the Ukrainian Government's ‘Grain from Ukraine’ initiative aiding WFP to export grains from Ukraine to assist vulnerable populations in food insecure countries. The Hungarian government has also agreed to host a new WFP office in Budapest.

It's not even noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, and the thermometer is already hovering near 40 degrees Celsius. The unpaved road to the village is bumpy and sandy.