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Famine — driven by conflict and fueled by climate shocks and the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — could soon become a reality for millions of people. Below, the World Food Programme’s acting director of nutrition, Allison Oman Lawi, explains what famine is — and spells out the urgent need for action to avert it

Humanitarian agencies including the World Food Programme scrambled to provide assistance to people fleeing Goma

The World Food Programme appeals for vital funding and decisive political action to break the corrosive cycle of conflict and hunger

World Food Programme training is empowering farmers in Zambia to increase their yields of crops that can withstand shocks

World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization empower communities with agriculture and trade skills

World Environment Day special: World Food Programme calls for funds as people suffering droughts and floods face a struggle to survive

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World Food Programme aims to make staying in hometowns a better option than risking exploitation in the goldmines of the north

World Food Programme at hand as violence fuels hunger, prompting many to flee their homes

World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization empower communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — the country with the biggest number of people going hungry

A livelihoods project backed by the World Food Programme empowers people to bee independent

World Food Programme partnerships officer Krystyna Kovalenko offers a glimpse of the south of the country, where thousands of people are starving

Global Report on Food Crises confirms World Food Programme and humanitarian community's worst fears over critical nutrition

How World Food Programme school feeding is enabling aspirations by motivating families to keep their daughters in school

A World Food Programme field monitor testifies to people's ongoing suffering after ten years of conflict

How the World Food Programme is helping to break the cycle of hunger and migration in Central America's Dry Corridor

How a World Food Programme forest management intervention is boosting Lebanon’s green cover and helping some of its most vulnerable people put food on the table

Amid insecurity, the World Food Programme is providing life-saving food assistance to 90,000 conflict-affected people in Sudan's Geneina

International Council of Voluntary Agencies rallies Oxfam, Save the Children and 258 other organizations after World Food Programme's warning on increasing levels of hunger

Children in the farming communities of the northern province are at risk as conflict disrupts livelihoods — a joint nutrition assessment by the two UN agencies aims to help prevent malnutrition

Dispelling myths around the starvation and disease that could kill 44 million people

Six years of conflict have taken a devastating toll on millions of people, and now famine is a stark reality without urgently needed funding.

A World Food Programme-backed farming project empowers new arrivals and Ugandan nationals with income-generating tools, as lack of money puts millions at risk in the region

World Food Programme readies emergency assistance for more than 50,000 people fleeing attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado

World Food Programme readies emergency assistance for more than 50,000 people affected by the attacks