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Humanitarian principles All of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s humanitarian work is guided by the core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is, alongside Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria, among the World Food Programme’s biggest emergencies – reeling from decades of conflict and climate change that continue to reduce people’s access to the most basic foods, increasing hunger to unprecedented levels. As WFP grapples with a global funding crisis and growing humanitarian needs, the horrific stories

“Distance Unknown” is an awareness art campaign on the complicated realities faced by people on the move, through an exhibition co-produced with migrants.

Schools in Gaza are packed with families who’ve lost their homes and family members to the bombings that have displaced almost its entire population of 2.2 million people. The same is true of Gaza’s remaining hospitals.

The English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean comprises several Small Island Developing States that face similar challenges in managing economic, financial, geographic and climate-related impacts that affect the food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable, particularly in crises.

The Nobel Peace Prize gives WFP recognition “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.

In a new Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) analysis on Yemen released today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned that, despite the slight improvements, nearly all districts under the control of the GoY were assessed to be facing high levels of food insecurity. Yemen remai

It’s a week since Bashir Abdi, his wife and nine children fled to the Iftin camp for displaced people, outside the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia.  “I was forced to move by the flash floods.

    In the Philippines, former combatants and the local Teduray people have sealed a friendship tending crops and fish farms.

 “My child is always crying,” says farmer Martha Kalumbi. “Doctors tell me she is starving and getting malnourished. I’m afraid that my baby may die.”Kalumbi, 40, lives in the village of Thumpwa in Malawi’s Phalombe district, where the fields look torched by drought.With the maize crop destroyed, there is barely any food. “The situation really hurts.