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According to an August 2022 Food Security Monitoring System analysis, 81 percent of Sierra Leonean households were unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs.

“I will never forget that day when my life changed,” says David of the afternoon he was ambushed in South Sudan in 2017. “I had been travelling from Koboko to Yei and I drove straight into an ambush.

Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family. At the time, agriculture was the main source of income for many in the area and the couple thought it would be easy to make ends meet.

ROME: Waking up this morning in this beautiful city of Rome, it is hard to imagine that in about 400 AD this city experienced a massive famine, it ended up killing almost 90% of its population.  Now students of history associate something else with that ancient date:  the beginning of the Fall of the Roman Empire.  Now, did the famine cause the fall?  Or did the f

Four years into the Rohingya displacement crisis, 96 percent of the refugees in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh depend entirely on humanitarian assistance.

The blazing sun and dry heat make life very difficult for farmers and pastoral nomads living in northeastern Kenya’s arid Garissa county.

In 2015, John Ilunga was working in a cement factory when a heavy bucket of cement mix fell on his neck, paralysing him from the neck down.  Ilunga, 25, lives with his parents, seven siblings, and two nieces, in Kitwe, the second-largest city of Zambia and the country's industrial hub.

David is learning to grow avocado, green peppers, chillies, rapeseed leaves and potatoes using hydroponics techniques. “My dream is to become a hydroponics expert,” he says. Hydroponics is a soilless cultivation technique that enables plant growth all year round.

My first visit to WFP field operations, in Lebanon and Syria, proved both a humbling and deeply moving experience. Stories of suffering and of resilience, of families broken apart and yearning for a life of normality, surfaced again and again. At a distribution centre in Damascus, women collecting boxes of food told me about losing loved ones in Syria's conflict, and of having to move re