Special Interest: Conflict
Burkina Faso, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen are facing famine from a toxic combination of conflict, economic decline, climate extremes and coronavirus.
We’ve been warning since July that Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food security crisis. We're now at risk of losing an entire generation of Yemen’s young children.
Conflict – in all of its destructive forms – is the #1 reason millions of people are suffering from hunger. The scale is difficult to comprehend.
Violence and insecurity have pushed 7.4 million people in the Central Sahel region of West Africa into acute hunger. WFP has requested urgent access.
A new report exposes the destructive impact of conflict, climate change and economic crises, now compounded by COVID-19, in driving up hunger.
Cargill’s donation matches the cash award that comes with the Nobel Peace Prize and is in recognition of the organization’s courageous efforts to combat hunger, help build a world free of conflict and to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war.
This is the highest honor and recognition of our mission. Let us come together as global citizens to fight for a Zero Hunger world.
Where there is conflict, there is hunger. And where there is hunger, there is often conflict. Today is a reminder that food security, peace and stability go hand in hand.
Here's a look at our latest report on childhood malnutrition, and its crushing impact on babies and children.
Yemen is one of the most complex operating environments in the world, and millions are suffering. We need increased funding to help the country turn a corner.
Conflict, violence and coronavirus have left people without access to food and livelihoods in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique.
The alarm bells are ringing loud and clear, and the world needs to open its eyes to the plight of desperate people before famine takes hold. And that famine is knocking on the door right before our eyes.