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Lessons from East Africa’s most ambitious and under-resourced response to refugees

Held in the MENA region for the second year in a row, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference, COP28, offered a chance to reinforce the need to tackle the effect of the climate emergency on the world’s populations – especially those living amid conflict and displacement.

Hind Khoudary, with the World Food Programme in Gaza, recounts hard days in the strip during and after a brief humanitarian pause

Clashes have displaced 420,000 people in the country’s Far North in 2022. Many depend on WFP assistance to survive

How WFP and Government agencies work together to counter the devastating cycle of climate-change-propelled cycle of droughts and floods

Celebrity chef and WFP Goodwill Ambassador Andrew Zimmern sees how students and women farmers are delivering change in Southern Africa

World Food Programme needs US$26.3 million in first phase of assisting people who are unsure how they will survive a devastating winter

WFP and partners are supporting the West African country in mainstreaming kids with disabilities into the public school system

Struggling Venezuelans must make tough choices among basic needs when family members have disabilities. WFP school meals are changing that

Three key areas world leaders meeting at the UN Climate Summit in Dubai must prioritize to strengthen the hands of humanitarian organizations such as the World Food Programme

WFP and our partners are working to ensure they don’t have to choose between hunger and sexual violence

To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November, a look at how the World Food Programme is enabling girls to return to school amid unwanted teenage pregnancies

Securing supply corridors and a pause in hostilities to enable safe humanitarian access are critical to save lives as conflict shows no sign of letting up

How world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit can make a difference for people bearing up to the consequences of extreme weather events

WFP’s award-winning app marks 200 million meals with users donating to communities facing conflict, climate shocks and other crises

As war enters its second month, Palestinians lay bare their needs for food, medical supplies and that ever elusive antidote to food insecurity... peace

How sustainable farming ideas from development startups supported by the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator gained global recognition

World Food Programme and other UN and humanitarian agencies working closely to bring relief to people in the greatest need

Three weeks of near-constant bombardment in Gaza have left its entire population in desperate and catastrophic conditions. The World Food Programme (WFP) is striving to reach over 1 million people for whom water and food are running out. Here, one WFP employee (who prefers not to be identified) describes the horror, the personal grief of losing at least seven family members as well as some friends, her dreams for a better future, and why her work must go on in the face of it all.

WFP-FAO report highlights 22 countries or territories needing urgent attention as funding shortfall hampers support 

WFP-supported early response initiatives are helping the Caribbean nation weather the climate crisis

WFP calls for new financing and long-term commitment to school feeding at a key Paris summit

More supplies ready at border after food and cash delivered to over half a million

On World Food Day, learn about the ways WFP is arming Bangladesh's poorest to confront devastating floods

WFP urgently needs US$18.8 million so Afghanistan’s earthquake survivors can eat and rebuild from the country’s latest disaster, and US$400 million to help the most vulnerable survive harsh weather