‘Catastrophic’ hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food ...
Oct 31, 2024 · “Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands of people in coming months, driven principally by violence and conflict. Five...
Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 | World Food Programme
Apr 23, 2024 · The report is the result of a collaborative effort among 16 partners to achieve a consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in countries with food crises and aims to inform humanitarian and development action.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen across 16 hunger hotspots during the outlook period from November 2024 to May 2025, including a total of 14 countries and 2 regional clusters which comprise 8 countries.
West and Central Africa faces deepening food crisis - UN World Food ...
Dec 20, 2024 · DAKAR – Over 40 million* people across West and Central Africa are struggling to feed themselves during the 2024 post-harvest season. This number is set to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, including 3.4 million people facing emergency levels of hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4) according to a new Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis released this month.
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We bring life-saving relief in emergencies and use food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impacts of climate change.
Approved by the Executive Board in 2012, the first WFP humanitarian protection policy set out to embed protection in the organization’s work in conflict situations and disaster response in order to improve the impact of food assistance on people whose rights are …
World Food Programme Strategy for Support to Social …
Jun 30, 2021 · For the World Food Programme (WFP), poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion—the three conditions cited above as the remit of social protection policy—are part of three broader domains of...
Letter to supporters by WFP’s Executive Director | by World Food ...
Mar 13, 2020 · Like you, for the past few weeks, I’ve watched with mounting concern as Covid-19 has spread across the world. From China to Italy, Australia to Denmark, we’re witnessing a global crisis that is...
World Food Programme Strategy for Support to Social …
Jul 1, 2021 · Discover how social protection addresses poverty, food insecurity and inequality in the World Food Programme's comprehensive analysis.
School meals are life-changing, but not as easy as ABC
In 2022, World Vision Sudan and WFP implemented a school feeding programme, Food for Education, providing daily hot meals and dry take-home rations to girls and boys in 266 schools in East and South Darfur.