The devastating storm brought life-threatening winds, heavy rain and severe storm surges, upending lives and livelihoods. It left thousands of people homeless, uprooting trees, downing power lines, littering roads with debris and cutting off water supply in several island states in the Caribbean.
This publication serves as an in-depth research report as a follow-on to the initial policy brief on a survey elaborated by WFP, the Migration Policy Institute and the Civic Data Design Lab at the MIT, “Charting a New Regional Course of Action: The Complex Motivations and Costs of Central American Migration”, published in November 2021.
WFP depends on river transport to reach rural and remote communities during the rainy season, when roads become inaccessible. However, due to a deterioration in the security situation along the White Nile, WFP has had to suspend its barge movement between Adok and Malakal as the waterways have become inaccessible, to the detriment of communities in the firing line.
Contact details for the UN World Food Programme's (WFP's) headquarters in Rome, and information on how to contact our country offices and media, fundraising, careers and procurement teams.
WFP continues to deliver emergency food assistance in Haiti alongside programmes that help tackle root causes of hunger. However, the recent uptick in violence has prevented WFP from reaching more than 370,000 of most food insecure Haitians since early February.
The funding will enable WFP to purchase 985 MT of maize and 245 MT of yellow split peas and benefit 42,000 school children for one year in Bubanza, Bujumbura, and Cibitoke Provinces of the country.
Speaking during a launch event at Buganda elementary school in Cibitoke Province, H. E.
World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa - Climate and Resilience Actions in Eastern Africa.
Annual Country Reports
Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)
The publication aims to showcase proven local solutions and innovations that can inspire other communities facing similar Food and Nutrition Security challenges. It was developed from extensive work in collecting and analysing good practices in the areas of Food Security, Nutrition, and Sustainable development, providing valuable insight into regional efforts to ensure adequate nutrition for all.
WFP will use the contribution from the U.S. Agency for International Development to purchase corn-soya blend – a partially precooked fortified food consumed as porridge, vegetable oil and pulses.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, good morning to you all.
As you have heard from our previous speakers, one thing is very clear from the latest edition of the State of Food Security report: the world is badly off-track in our efforts to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.
Despite our collective commitment, with only six years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more
