Special Interest: Climate Change
With malnutrition rates spiraling and children forced to beg to help their families eat, urgent action is needed to prevent a crisis.
The ‘lean’ season risks pushing some 6.9 million people - nearly half of the country's population - into hunger by its March peak.
This Nobel Peace Prize is more than a thank you. It is a call to action as 270 million people march toward starvation.
Fish farming, micro-irrigation and flood-control barriers: we're working with communities in Malawi to make sure they can feed themselves and withstand climate shocks.
More than 800 U.N. Volunteers have served with WFP in the past decade, helping us save lives in over 70 countries.
This is a “failure is not an option” moment. At a time when our own wellbeing is inextricably tied up with others' around the globe, we will be better off only when others are, too.
Conflict, displacement, natural disasters: they’ve left 149 million people facing severe levels of hunger. Here's why and how it happens.
In Nicaragua, some 80,000 families are at risk. We have shipped drinking water, storage containers, and 275 metric tons of rice, beans and vegetable oil in response.
Eta arrived at the worst time, making life harder for millions of people already hard hit by years of erratic weather and the socioeconomic crisis COVID-19 caused.
The number of acutely hungry people in the world may increase by more than 100 million this year, and some countries could be headed for famine.
The flooding is the worst Sudan has seen in nearly a century. We're scaling up to help thousands of devastated families across the country.
“The COVID pandemic risks even wider and deeper desperation,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP’s Country Director. “We must all do our utmost to prevent this tragedy turning into a catastrophe.”