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This additional cost to WFP’s operations could have been used to provide six million school children with a daily nutritious meal for six months.

WFP is currently assisting up to 400,000 people in Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa provinces with an in-kind monthly family food basket of 50 kg of cereals, 5 liters of oil and 10 kg of dried beans and lentils.

WFP warns that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in 2019

Poverty, the struggle to put food on the table, climate shocks and the threat of violence are pushing an estimated 378,000 people in Central America to make their way to the United States every year in the past five years, according to  joint report released today. “We are seeing an exodus … as hunger and despair force many to migrate in search of a better life,” said World Food P

WFP’s refugee operation has faced severe resourcing constraints in 2021 and WFP was forced to reduce general food assistance rations to 40 percent of a full ration in March and April 2021.

Macro-level disaster risk finance (DRF) tools are a crucial way to respond swiftly, cost-effectively and reliably to climate and disaster shocks. Linking these tools to social protection systems ensures that assistance reaches the most vulnerable people effectively and in a timely manner in the face of an extreme weather event.

As world leaders gather in Madrid for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25), Salvadoran farmer José Cirilo Mendoza looks worriedly at the sky — five consecutive years, prolonged dry spells and excessive rains have taken a heavy toll on subsistence farmers like him in Central America's Dry Corridor. From hurricanes pounding islands to drought destroying crops across Central America, and