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WFP’s operations are severely hampered by intensifying conflict, the limited number of border crossings and damaged roads. In the last two months, amid continuing catastrophic hunger, WFP has had to reduce the contents of food parcels in Gaza as inflows of aid dipped and supplies dwindled.

The funds have been awarded to WFP’s Nepal office through a competitive process operated by USDA’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (McGovern-Dole), which has a long history of supporting Nepal’s efforts to promote food security and opportunities for education.This award will support a comprehensive five-year initiative (2023-2028) focused on improving&nbs

 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accounts for one of the world’s largest internal displacement crises, with a stunning 6.5 million people uprooted. The majority are spread across four eastern provinces, where non-state armed groups proliferate and conflict rages. But there’s another threat to humanitarian access in the region: disinformation.

Supporting the Government in the treatment of severe cases of COVID-19, WFP is providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) equipment and non-invasive ventilators (NIV) for treating critically-ill patients. The first batch of 50 NIV was delivered from Beijing to Hubei Charity Federation today.

The World Food Programme’s World Hunger Series was created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders and focuses on practical strategies to achieve an end to hunger.

It is a crisp October morning in Milan, Italy — people quicken their pace rushing to work, children run to school and cars buzz past on the cobbled pavement. Opening the door of the ‘Incredible Ordinary' temporary shop is a bit like walking through Alice's looking glass: one step and you find yourself in a different world. You are in a supermarket, but not one you recognize.

 “My child is always crying,” says farmer Martha Kalumbi. “Doctors tell me she is starving and getting malnourished. I’m afraid that my baby may die.”Kalumbi, 40, lives in the village of Thumpwa in Malawi’s Phalombe district, where the fields look torched by drought.With the maize crop destroyed, there is barely any food. “The situation really hurts.

“Some cows refused to cross the water,” says cattle farmer Eric Mutabazi, recalling the days when it took hours to find a safe place to cross the Lwizi river, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Tanganyika province. Its treacherous waters meant “the safety of my livestock and my income were at stake,” he says. But what could Mutabazi do?

  Heba Hamed shows off her impressive beauty salon in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, lined with a raft of hair-and-beauty products and sunny decorations. This article is part of WFP and FIFA's #FIFAWWC campaign. Her husband died in Yemen's ongoing conflict, making the thirtysomething entrepreneur the sole carer for their child.  Buoyed by an accountin

In Haiti, the World Food Programme has a 300-strong team of humanitarians working with local partners to deliver humanitarian food assistance in hard-to-reach areas affected by conflict, and extreme weather events linked to climate change.  With 4.9 million people acutely food-insecure in the country, it’s a formidable task that we complement with resilience-building initiatives such a