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In Haiti, the World Food Programme has a 300-strong team of humanitarians working with local partners to deliver humanitarian food assistance in hard-to-reach areas affected by conflict, and extreme weather events linked to climate change.  With 4.9 million people acutely food-insecure in the country, it’s a formidable task that we complement with resilience-building initiatives such a

Norway’s timely contribution will support WFP’s El Niño Response Plan which, in coordination with the Government of Malawi, aims to assist 2.1 million food-insecure people in Malawi. WFP will procure and distribute 3,200 metric tons of maize and ninety-eight metric tons of fortified corn soya blend for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition.

On school days, one hundred children gather in front of Bisang Elementary and pour into the three mismatched structures that make up their classrooms: two huts fashioned out of what materials are available nearby and a concrete building on loan from local authorities. “It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing,” says Mary Jean Digan, a teacher here in the mountain Barangay (village) o

 A shy smile lights up Rainatou’s face as she talks about her former profession: weaving traditional Fulani mats from her home in northern Burkina Faso.

“This wheat production project to the tune of USD 75 million financed by the African Development Bank became the heart of production in the critical moment in Sudan. It provided food security, yielding 645,000 metric tonnes of wheat this year, and also became a critical crisis response intervention to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

Additional reporting by Barbara Pereira Mendes Four years ago, Marie Jeanne lived in her hometown of Kahanga – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Équateur province. There she grew crops to make sure her family could eat. Then violence broke out.

On 14 August 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the south of Haiti, killing 2,200 people and destroying 137,000 homes. Marie was pregnant.

The children of families who were affected by the massive earthquake which devastated large parts of south-west Haiti in August are receiving free hot meals at school. This is part of a World Food Programme (WFP) initiative to support the recovery of the country’s most vulnerable communities. It’s 11 a.m.

Standing in a field of golden wheat, Imad is a long way from his life as a mechanic in Sudan’s once-bustling capital of Khartoum.

Several months after a devastating earthquake hit the southern part of the country, killing more than 2,000 people, destroying livelihoods and damaging countless schools and infrastructure such as roads and bridges, people from all places and backgrounds are rebuilding their lives.