New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows little sign of abating and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance.
WFP is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan.
Conflict is a vicious force, and one that’s pushed innocent civilians to the most extreme levels of hunger imaginable. Nearly all of them live in the same places.
As climate talks get underway in Glasgow, families in southern Madagascar, where climate is driving famine-like conditions, brace themselves for yet another harsh year ahead.
Hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk in southern Madagascar, the only place in the world right now where catastrophic levels of hunger are being driven by climate not conflict.
There was a time when Immaculée Mukarusanga relied on farming just to feed her two teenage daughters. Now, thanks to the Farm to Market Alliance, she grows enough beans, corn and potatoes to sell at her local markets and could afford a cow.
WFP is empowering farmers in Zambia to increase and strengthen their crop yields. With organic fertilizer and new soil techniques, farmers like Mainner are able to grow a variety of drought-tolerant crops.Â
WFP has provided the Ghana School Feeding Programme with tablets to digitize the monitoring of the school feeding program.
WFP warns that it may soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in northeastern Nigeria unless urgent funding is secured.
Meet Merlin and Achol — two young schoolgirls in South Sudan who, thanks to school meals and support from their families, can dream of reaching their lofty career goals.Â
