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The contribution from Japan will enable WFP provide school feeding and nutrition support to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host communities.

This grant will support in restoring the agricultural-based livelihoods of nearly 4,000 smallholder farmers and their families through measures that help communities adapt to water and soil salinity in addition to focusing on climate-smart agricultural practices such as solar-powered water pumps and hydroponics, to withstand the adverse effects of climate change and build their food security. “

Rwanda, home to 13.7 million people, has achieved positive development outcomes in poverty reduction, gender equality, environmental sustainability, education and public health through economic growth and structural reforms.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

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.

This Quarterly Bulletin for WFP in India includes updates on the new partnership with the Government of Odisha to promote millets for fighting hunger and supporting climate-resilient livelihoods; progress around WFP’s support to the One Nation One Ration Card campaign which allows beneficiaries of the Targeted Public Distribution System to avail their entitlements anywhere in the country; and acti

WFP has also been able to preposition food in strategic locations across the northeast and central highlands of the country where heavy winter snows can cut off communities from assistance.

“Home to more than 700 rivers, Bangladesh is increasingly seeing the impact of climate change. Erratic monsoon and downpours are causing severe floods,” said Richard Ragan, WFP Representative and Country Director in Bangladesh.

Since November 2017, WFP and the Food Security Sector have been conducting the Refugee influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment (REVA) annually. The REVA aims to monitor food security situation and vulnerability levels of the Rohingya population living in the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar district and the adjacent host community potentially affected.

“Providing food assistance to vulnerable families in times of crisis is at the core of WFP’s life-saving mandate.