Hanan, a 43-year-old Syrian woman, points to a picture of hers that featured in a recent exhibition of art by refugees in Ankara. The picture contains the red shapes of apparently random objects and has the Arabic word for sky (‘sama') printed boldly across its centre.
"We do not live well, we do not eat well, and we cannot even move around normally because of the chaos in the country," says Osena Previlon, who grows fruit and vegetables on her small plot of land outside Gonaives, the largest city in Haiti's Artibonite department.
Haiti ranks high among countries identified by the World Food Programme (WFP) as being at risk of descending further into cris
Updated: 14:45, 2/2/18Here in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Kamonia, the heart of Kasai Region, two women receiving food during a distribution by the World Food Programme (WFP) tell me their harrowing stories of loss, of escape and of an uncertain future .
The strategy provides an overview of WFP’s assistance to strengthen Bhutan’s climate resilient food systems across the agriculture value chain from increasing the demand for local food, improving production capacity, post-harvest management, marketing, coordination and knowledge management.
The WFP Centre of Excellence commissioned the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), based in South Africa, to analyze the cases of Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zambia and launched a new publication that gathers five papers about social protection in those African countries.
A world with Zero Hunger and good health for all by 2030 is possible. A new campaign by the World Food Programme, Project Everyone and UNICEF aims to speed up progress.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest challenges of our time.
Beatrice Hagenimana came to Mahama refugee camp, in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, with her family two years ago.
"I had to leave Burundi. People wanted to kill us, we had no other choice. I really want to go back, but it is not possible.
The evaluation assessed the following activities: school feeding, micronutrient supplementation as well as capacity development.
The evaluation, which makes a number of recommendations for the future, was managed and conducted by a consultancy firm, with fieldwork taking place in October 2014.
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
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