Two typhoons – Typhoon Tino and Super Typhoon Uwan – have impacted more than 8.3 million people in the Philippines, leaving communities reeling from back-to-back disasters.
The Philippines is bracing for a tropical cyclone to make landfall, a week after another cyclone struck the country.
New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.
One month since a powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31, the World Food Programme continues to rapidly deliver food assistance to affected communities and support logistics for the broader humanitarian response.
The World Food Programme is rushing food to affected communities in eastern Afghanistan, following a powerful, 6.0 magnitude earthquake late Sunday, August 31 that killed hundreds of people and injured or otherwise affected thousands more.
We are deeply saddened by the tragic earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan the evening of August 31, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured. The World Food Programme (WFP) is on the ground supporting affected communities.
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in southeast Asia, in recent years declines in poverty have been modest, leaving marginalized groups such as women, children and the elderly, vulnerable to hunger and poverty.
The widespread effects of the unprecedented economic crisis that overtook Sri Lanka in 2022 are still heavily felt across the country. Over a quarter of the population is now estimated to live below the poverty line, which hurts their access sufficient, nutritious food.
With the landscape in Tajikistan being mountainous with only 7% of farmable land, which is vulnerable to extreme climate events, food insecurity is a challenge for the majority of its population.
As one of the newest countries in the world, Timor-Leste is struggling with food insecurity as they’re highly dependent on agriculture, which is vulnerable to extreme climate events.
