A $5.3 million contribution from USAID will help WFP provide food assistance to over 104,000 Congolese and Burundian refugees in camps across Rwanda.
We had a chance to hear from the United Nations World Food Programme’s Acting Director of Nutrition, Allison Oman Lawi, about the causes of famine and the urgent need in 2021 to avert it.
Back-to-back droughts in Madagascar have pushed communities right to the very edge of starvation. Families are suffering and people are already dying from severe hunger.
Migrants, refugees and other forcibly displaced persons are among the most disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups, and are suffering some of the worst impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
New WFP analyses show that 41 million people are teetering on the very edge of famine in 43 countries and the slightest shock will push them over the precipice.
In honor of World Refugee Day, we’re sharing the story of Yahya who fled his home because of conflict 15 years ago.
As a new WFP report indicates a surge in people teetering on the brink of famine – which has risen from 34 million projected at the beginning of the year to 41 million projected as of June – it’s vital that the world steps forward to support the most vulnerable.
There’s little remarkable about a greenhouse growing chilies, cucumbers and tomatoes until you learn that it’s in the ‘Dry Corridor’—a vast stretch of Central America where drought is pushing more and more people into hunger.
Now more than ever, with four countries on the edge of famine, it is important to explore the links between hunger, the virus and vaccines.
Today, the global spotlight on the Central American migration crisis has left many to question what the root causes are of the migration. We have some answers, and they all boil down to one thing: hunger.
