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Several months after a devastating earthquake hit the southern part of the country, killing more than 2,000 people, destroying livelihoods and damaging countless schools and infrastructure such as roads and bridges, people from all places and backgrounds are rebuilding their lives.

 Kalobeyei settlement is set in the heart of the arid Turkana county, about 30 minutes drive from Kakuma refugee camps.The World Food Programme (WFP) is responsible for providing food to refugees living here and in the camps on a monthly basis.

Climatic shocks (floods and droughts), conflict, economic downturn, displacement and disrupted livelihoods are driving the worsening trend in food security with 7.74 million people (62.7 percent of the population) across the country slated to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse levels of acute food insecurity during the lean season between April and July 2022, according to the latest Integrated Foo

Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe’ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). This is the first time that people have been recorded in Phase 5 in Madagascar since the IPC methodology was introduced in 2016.

In Bangladesh, WFP provides food assistance to the entire population of 860,000 Rohingya people living in the camps in the Cox’s Bazar district.

This UNAIDS Guidance Note on Food and Nutrition provides simple, concise and practical guidance on how to integrate food and nutrition into national HIV strategies and programmes.

Communities in southeast Guinea are facing down the threat of COVID-19 to both their health and their food security. While the capital Conakry is the epicentre of the pandemic, coronavirus has hit communities hard in the Nzerekore, Kankan and Boke regions, hampering access to products such as fertilizers and the movement of food to sell and buy. Under an initiative launched by the World

The Land of the Thunder Dragon is also a land of contradictions. Although over 60 percent of Bhutan’s population works in agriculture, the country still depends on imports for around 50 percent of its food.   This is partially because, despite lush green hills, just 2.6 percent of the tiny Himalayan nation’s land is arable.

The situation is particularly worrying in conflict-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin and the Liptako-Gourma region (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger), where 25,500 people will experience catastrophic hunger (phase 5) during the June-August 2023 lean season.

Story by Valentina Ortiz, Felipe Sabogal and Lorena Pena "The hardest thing about being a trans woman is to keep fighting every day," says Tamara. "I've been fighting my whole life against an unfair society that believes we are sick." Tamara is a transgender woman. Lockdown has taken its toll on her mother's poultry business and their income.