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Alia stands in line at a WFP food assistance site in Kabul, awaiting the food basket that will be a lifeline for her family of nine. “Since the government situation changed last year, unemployment has increased, and people’s economic situation has deteriorated,” she says. “Because the economy is not good, people come here to receive food.

The centre piece of the exhibition is a giant tapestry illustrating the driving factors that force vulnerable families from Central America to migrate, and the costs associated with their journeys.

The WFP’s Global Field Pilot Initiative on SSTC in Peru focused on two main challenges, namely the need to support smallholder farmers to sell their products into public social protection programmes as well as in ensuring that they obtain a national certificate that identify them as family farmers producers.   See the full report of the MARA-WFP Global SSTC Initiative Overview 2022 here

The WFP’s Global Field Pilot Initiative on SSTC in Ecuador focused on strengthening national institutions and programmes, including social protection programmes, that aimed to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition in Ecuador as well as sustainably increase income and improve productivity of smallholder farmers, especially women, in targeted areas.   See the full report of the MARA-WFP

MAPUTO – WFP is extremely concerned about the escalating conflict and deteriorating food security situation in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, where over 300,000 people have fled their homes and villages, abandoning their crops and leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance.

Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned today. Of these, 400,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition and could die if they do not receive urgent treatment.

.     Who has inspired you most in your life?  My mother was really an inspiring woman for my sisters and myself. As a customs inspector, she was so invested in her professional life that she might not have spent enough time with us. However, we recognized that she did this so that we would receive what was needed the most, which was education and a comfortable life.

The warehouse was used to store some of the supplies from the trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies coming from Egypt ahead of distribution to displaced families. The warehouse contained some 80 tons of mixed food commodities, mainly canned food, wheat flour and sunflower oil. “This is a sign of people losing hope and becoming more desperate by the minute.

“The world is shaken by compounding crises. The fallout of the war in Ukraine is adding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that now enters its third year, while climate change and increased fragility and conflict pose persistent harm to people around the globe.

The assessment aims to inform UN WFP India’s pilot project in Varanasi and Dhenkenal on the capacity building of Cook cum Helpers in the MDM scheme, which guarantees one meal to all school-going children from class 1 to class 8 to improve enrolment, retention, and attendance in addition to enhancing their nutritional levels.