In Malawi, a new initiative is changing the lives of students and smallholder farmers. The U.N. World Food Program is promoting the Home-Grown School Feeding Program, which is bridging the gap between agriculture and public primary schools, improving student nutrition while providing farmers more economic power.
The World Food Programme (WFP) issued a warning on Friday that it is facing a 70% funding shortage in Myanmar, where millions of people are facing rising food insecurity.
Escalating levels of conflict have displaced nearly one million people across north-western Syria since early December, in what is now the largest wave of displacement in nearly nine years of conflict
The World Food Program says it needs $103 million to meet urgent food assistance in Zimbabwe, where more than half the population is food insecure due to recurring droughts and a declining economy. Columbus Mavhunga reports from eastern Mudzi district, one of the country’s most affected areas
WFP is rolling out its most ambitious biometric registration scheme to date in Yemen. This process has already begun in southern Yemen and the agency is hoping to begin registration in the north in the coming months
The World Food Programme (WFP) said its food assistance was the only this preventing massive famine in the country, but fighting, high prices and a failing economy are pushing people to the brink