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The EU’s contribution, received through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), is helping WFP avoid an interruption in its operations providing vital food assistance to populations affected by food insecurity in isolated or hard-to-reach areas of the country. With frequent reports of people fleeing their villages to escape violence, humanitarian needs i

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s conflict-ravaged northeast, 27-year-old Florence Mapendo faces an agonizing daily choice: hunger or violence.  “Finding food is the hardest part,” she says of the risk-filled quest to ensure her four children can eat at the Bweremana camp for conflict-displaced people, in DRC’s North Kivu province. In this stunningly beautiful but deadly reg

If aliens were to view planet earth as a plate, it wouldn’t take a particularly intelligent lifeform to see that human beings are making a meal of their very home... and leaving nothing left. Over the past two weeks COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh has aimed, as all UN climate summits do, to stop the damage.

The reductions come at the worst possible time for families in Yemen who are dependent on WFP’s food assistance to survive. In the last three months, inadequate food consumption – one measure of hunger tracked by WFP – has risen rapidly to affect half of all families as currency devaluation and hyper-inflation drives the economy to near collapse.

The Port is the heart of WFP’s operations in the region with over 200,000 mt of food destined for nine countries passing through each year.  The Deputy President and the ambassadors viewed a WFP-chartered vessel, MV Valsamitis, which is discharging 25,000 mt of wheat bought from Ukrainian farmers.

Based on a used-focus approach, the evaluation answered four questions related to the design of the interventions, their implementation and their results.

The project will introduce tested solutions to combat desertification and support water conservation in the farming sector.

The first-of-its-kind project in the Pacific will provide pre-emptive cash transfers to targeted social welfare beneficiaries to cushion the shocks of tropical cyclones on food security and livelihoods.

 CLICK TO VIEW: LATEST NEWS RELEASESUpdated 29 May 15:40 CEST  (Previous updates: 22 May, 17 May)The Israeli incursion in Rafah is having a devastating impact on civilians and humanitarian operations.

This contribution is particularly crucial in a context where millions of families are struggling to meet their basic food and nutrition needs due to the compounding effects of the climate crisis, conflicts and insecurity, and the high costs of food and fuel in West Africa which drive food out of reach for vulnerable families.