On April 21, WFP ED David Beasley addressed the UN Security Council, asking them to act quickly to prevent COVID-19 from pushing millions of people into famine.
Chase Sova, WFP USA sr. director of public policy and research, draws on a new WFP report to explain how COVID-19 is expected to double global hunger by the end of 2020.
Today, WFP released a report announcing that COVID-19 could push more than a quarter of a billion into hunger by the end of 2020.
WFP is seating up the vital logistics backbone that will help save lives and help halt the spread of the virus. Humanitarian leaders from across the world are calling on donors to provide the support needed for WFP to scale-up its lifesaving services.
Guayaquil, Ecuador has become a hotspot in the COVID-19 crisis, as an aggressive outbreak recently hit the city. WFP talked to a beneficiary family there to see how their coping in this turbulent time.
WFP received major contributions received from individuals, foundations and corporate partners, including UPS, Bank of America, Mars, Cargill, and Herbalife Nutrition to support WFP’s COVID-19 response efforts globally.
At WFP’s main office in Rome, more than 1,000 staff members have been working remotely since the first week of March. We’re #TogetherAtHome.
“I don’t think we can go back to business as usual after this.” Danielle Nierenberg, world-renowned expert on food and ag, talked to us about her career and how coronavirus will affect food systems going forward.
COVID-19 pandemic is causing border closures, travel restrictions and supply chain complexities never faced before, but WFP is still finding ways to save lives.
The Government of Ethiopia and WFP opened a new hub inside Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport from which COVID-19 supplies, equipment and humanitarian workers will be transported by air across Ethiopia and Africa.
