Special Interest: Emergency Response
Without sustained humanitarian assistance and access to people in need, U.N. agencies say hunger could reach its highest level ever.
As news reports highlight the deteriorating situation in Eastern Ghouta, the World Food Programme (WFP) is using every tool in its toolbox to deliver food to people trapped by conflict.
Learn how the World Food Programme (WFP) is responding when the conditions of war are changing almost every day.
Since 2013, 400,000 people have been trapped in a besieged area of Syria without reliable access to food and medicine.
For 239 days, WFP has employed every means of food delivery available, from airdrops and barges up the Nile to convoys of trucks, all transporting lifesaving food.
Four years of conflict in South Sudan has plunged millions of people into hunger—and time is running out.
There isn't enough food — for refugees, for vulnerable families in conflict zones and for people struggling on the brink of famine.
The arrival of four mobile cranes in Hodeidah Port will allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to better deliver more food and humanitarian supplies to hungry families in need.
How photographs help bring the plight of the Rohingya refugees to light
The Final Delivery
As families adopt emergency coping strategies, funding shortfalls have forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food assistance to displaced Syrians inside the country.
In a country where 90 percent of food was imported even before the conflict began, the devastation is especially evident in the youngest children.