The world’s 164 million migrant workers, especially those working in the informal sector, are some of the worst hit by the pandemic.
A new report exposes the destructive impact of conflict, climate change and economic crises, now compounded by COVID-19, in driving up hunger.
A new report finds that rates of acute hunger worldwide are the highest they’ve been since the report’s inception.
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.
The locust upsurge affecting East Africa is a graphic and shocking reminder of this region’s vulnerability. Yet as ancient as this scourge is, its scale today is unprecedented in modern times.
Zimbabwe’s hunger crisis – the worst in more than a decade – is part of an unprecedented climate-driven disaster gripping southern Africa. WFP plans to more than double the number of people it is helping by January to 4.1 million.
The authors of the report call for a profound transformation of food systems if we’re going to provide sustainably-produced healthy diets for a growing world population.
