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Chad is witnessing a new wave of refugees crossing the border following the military clashes that erupted in neigbouring Sudan on 15 April. The humanitarian needs are growing in Chad and food needs to be urgently pre-positioned before the rainy season makes access impossible.

A wave of desert locusts in East Africa is now forming more swarms in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, putting at risk the main crop harvest in May and June, and threatening the food security of smallholder farmers. In South Sudan, desert locusts have affected four counties in Eastern Equatoria region since arriving in mid-February.

Does combining cash-based transfers with food assistance for assets support women’s autonomy? This brief summarizes the first pre-analysis plan from OEV’s “Cash-based transfers & Gender” impact evaluation window.

By 2050, climate change could cause a 20 percent increase in hunger and malnutrition.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative and the reopening of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports to commercial and humanitarian shipments are crucial to helping the world’s hungry. There is no single solution to the global food crisis but reintegrating Ukrainian food and Russian food and fertilizer into global markets is a step in the right direction

The mud structures housing some of Nepal's poorest people never stood a chance – survivors of Friday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake, which killed 157 people in the country, are sleeping rough after their homes were destroyed. The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Nepal and partners in mobilizing relief supplies for families who find themselves suddenly without their hom

An MI-8 transport helicopter contracted by the WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) arrived in Beira on Wednesday to support rescue and relief operations – the first of three due there this week.   Broadcast quality footage available on request for accredited news organizations, please contact video@wfp.org