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“We lost 100 percent of the papaya, which is our main income,” says farmer Maritza Blandon, recalling tropical storm Lisa. In November 2022, the Category-1 hurricane ripped open the greenhouses in Cayo province, Belize, where she and her husband, Ever, grew crops including tomatoes and pineapples. “We work on bank credit.

International soccer superstar Son Heung-Min has joined the World Food Programme (WFP) as a Goodwill Ambassador – the South Korean joins a host of high-profile figures lending their support to the organization as it seeks to respond to a global hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions.  Son, 30, transferred to English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur from the Bundesliga’s Bayer

“The DPRK has been hit hard by drought and poor harvests that have left millions of hungry children, women and men facing severe food shortages over the coming months,” said WFP Regional Director – Asia Pacific, David Kaatrud.

The latest WFP surveys show that hunger is rising sharply in Sri Lanka, where nearly half of the households interviewed were facing challenges in accessing food, amid income losses, record levels of food price inflation, disruptions to the food supply chain and severe shortages of basic commodities including fuel. “Millions of the poorest Sri Lankans can no longer afford an adequate d

Awash with early morning sun, Yankiel Vázquez’s seedling house is a green ocean of tender baby plants. Here, the farmer, who goes by Payo, grows tomatoes, peppers and cabbage until they are big enough to be planted in open fields. We are in the outskirts of Sagua la Grande, a town in central Villa Clara province, on Cuba’s Northern coast.

In what was once a classroom, 13-year-old Ahmed sits in front of a blank chalkboard. He has not attended school for months.

 Hundreds of truckloads of World Food Programme assistance are speeding this month to the hungriest parts of Sudan, as part of a massively scaled-up response after famine was confirmed at a camp for displaced people in the country’s Darfur region.Targeting an initial 3 million people this month, the WFP food-and-cash support aims to prevent more people from falling into catastrophic hunger, o

Gentille smiles proudly at her four-year-old son Silva, as they sit in front of her thatched-roof home.

A small white UNHAS Dash 8 airplane taxis down the rough tarmac of tiny Beni airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, raising a cloud of dust on a sunny morning – along with hopes for this conflict-torn region. This is not just a routine flight. It is a lifeline.