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In Tajikistan, WFP has been supporting the Government to provide school meals to children since 1999.

Research shows that if global temperatures keep rising to hit the 2° C mark, an additional 189 million people could become food insecure. In a 4°C warmer world, this number could increase by as many as 1.8 billion people.

On 22 April, the Government of Kiribati raised an urgent request for intravenous (IV) fluids which was about to run out in its hospitals. WFP responded immediately - together with the Australian Government who procured 6 metric tonnes of IV fluid within 24 hours.

To transport vital relief supplies from stockpiles in Kuala Lumpur to remote affected communities, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces. The collaboration includes IFRC relief supplies, along with 400 family kits donated by the Government of Australia brought in from WFP-managed UN H

After more than 10 years, Freerice is growing up! That’s because the World Food Programme’s popular philanthropic trivia game is more than just a fun platform for testing your knowledge and earning rice grains.

The study - ‘Impact of climate related shocks and stresses on nutrition and food security in rural Bangladesh’ – was commissioned by the World Food Programme and conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and Helen Keller International (HKI).

The new service, which operates independently, builds on WFP and UNHCR’s experience in setting-up vehicle leasing schemes.

Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe’ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). This is the first time that people have been recorded in Phase 5 in Madagascar since the IPC methodology was introduced in 2016.

The number of people affected by high acute food insecurity in the DRC is estimated at 27.3 million or one in three people, including nearly seven million people grappling with emergency levels of acute hunger (IPC 4), according to the latest Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) analysis. This makes the central African country home to the highest number of people in ur

New York – The situation in the eight places in the world with the highest number of people in need of emergency food support shows that the link between conflict and hunger remains all too persistent and deadly, according to a new report released today by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).