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The Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity Hotspots – issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) – describes a toxic combination of conflict, economic decline, climate extremes and the COVID-19 pandemic that is driving people further into the emergency phase of food insecurity. Parts of the population in the four hotspots

In the weeks after the strongest storm to ever hit the country, WFP’s emergency assistance kick-started the recovery of the 1.8 million people.

The situation is particularly worrying in the areas hardest hit by the 2019 floods, where food security has deteriorated significantly since last June according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today by the Government of South Sudan, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World

Reflecting on a record year for emergencies Flexible funding has never been more essential to the work of the World Food Programme. In 2019 the agency dealt with a record number of emergencies — 8 at the highest level of 3, and 12 at Level 2 — fuelled chiefly by conflict and climate change. Conflicts in Yemen and Syria raged on, with millions displaced and facing chronic food insecuri