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Since the conflict broke out last year, hunger and acute malnutrition have soared.

Following a massive scale-up of operations, WFP has provided 330,000 loaves of freshly baked bread to families in the city of Kharkiv, cash assistance to displaced people in Lviv and ready-to-eat food in various parts of the country; WFP emergency food supplies have also made it to the conflict areas of Sumy and Kharkiv through two interagency humanitarian convoys.

Years of conflict, displacement, and environmental shocks have led to chronic hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and the loss of many lives in the world’s youngest country.

“The combined effects of conflict, climate shocks, economic and political crises, rising costs and poor harvests are pushing millions of people deeper into hunger and poverty,’ said Eddie Rowe, WFP’s Representative and Country Director in Sudan. “However, funding levels are not matching the humanitarian needs and we must act now to avoid increasing hunger levels and to save the lives of those a

The visit took place at ‘El Boghdadi’ village, one of the 123 communities supported under the rural development programme run by WFP and the Government. The delegation toured consolidated land plants and learned about improved agro-processing and irrigation techniques.

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.

Wasting is a life-threatening condition caused by insufficient consumption of nutritious foods, frequent illness, or poor nutrient absorption, resulting in dangerously thin children with weakened immunity and a higher risk of death. Globally, wasting is the underlying cause in nearly half of all deaths among children under five.

The contribution will sustain and increase access to education through the provision of nutritious school meals for 13,000 children.

Looking beyond the immediate response, WFP is strengthening the resilience of communities helping them adapt to the changing climate.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has urged for a “political solution” as the closure of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea continues to threaten food supplies – and millions of lives – around the world. Without it, the threat to global food security posed by the ongoing war will result in “famine, [the] destabilization of nations as well as mass migration by necessity”, WFP’s Executive Director