Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The experience of one village shows how the World Food Programme can change lives in a year of unprecedented hunger, one community at a time
Country:
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Deicy Cuero recalls the desperate times when she and her husband José Ochoa were left knocking on neighbours’ doors for help — they even resorted to approaching strangers in the street. “When the need for food is that great, so many things go...
Country:
America, Colombia, Venezuela
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Monday, June 29, 2020
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
El impacto socioeconómico de la pandemia COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe podría potencialmente dejar a cerca de 14 millones de personas vulnerables en inseguridad alimentaria severa durante este año, según proyecciones del Programa Mundial de...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working together with the Government of Bangladesh to assist more than 275,000 people affected by flooding in the north-west of the country, activating for the first time an innovative forecast-based financing project...
Thursday, January 10, 2019
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a £3.95 million (US$5 million) contribution from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to its 2018/19 Lean Season Assistance programme in Zimbabwe.
The...
Country:
Africa, Zimbabwe, Europe, United Kingdom
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
UN Women and the World Food Programme (WFP) are breaking new ground by using blockchain to assist Syrian refugee women participating in UN Women’s cash for work programmes at the Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps in Jordan. Traditionally, cash transfers...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine welcomed a contribution of €2.95 million (US$3.6 million) from the European Union to support critical food assistance to severely vulnerable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The funds –...
Country:
Asia, Palestinian Territory
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Poor rainfall in parts of Africa has triggered the largest insurance pay-out to date for vulnerable farmers under an innovative climate risk management scheme known as the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4). Farmers participating in R4 – launched by the...
Country:
Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will shift its support from in-kind food assistance to distributions of cash to refugees from Bhutan located in Nepal starting mid-2018; this is in line with refugees’ preference and will ensure the dignity...