Special Interest: Conflict
WFP has achieved an unprecedented expansion of food assistance in Yemen, scaling it up by 50 percent. But still, over 11 million people continue to face a daily struggle of finding enough food.
WFP is in a race against time to mobilize vital funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan as hunger advances on a population in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.
With their homes destroyed and their husbands killed, the women and children who fled Boko Haram in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon have nowhere to turn.
WFP warns of an escalating humanitarian crisis driven by widespread violence and the long-term impact of climate change that has gripped Burkina Faso and neighboring countries in the Central Sahel region of West Africa.
When I came home after a recent mission to Yemen, I slammed my car door so hard that the window came out of alignment. The faces and stories of the people I'd met had stayed with me.
"I defy anyone to keep a tear inside their eye when you see the people who are our friends, neighbors, families in this terrible situation," says Isam Ismail, WFP's program officer in Syria.
Hunger is on the rise, and we know why. Violence, war, persecution...no matter what you call it, conflict drives more people into hunger than any other cause on the planet.
WFP has so far provided emergency food assistance to more than 300,000 people in Syria as a result of recent military operations in the northeast of the country.
Conflict is the #1 cause of hunger in the world. It uproots families, destroys economies, ruins infrastructure and brings agricultural production to a halt.
This is only the second time in over a year that WFP has been able to reach Durayhimi City, which lies about 12 miles south of the port city of Hodeidah.
WFP has so far provided immediate food assistance to more than 70,000 people fleeing towns in northeastern Syria as military operations continue.