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  •  News Release 1 day ago

    Global Hunger Down, But Millions Still Chronically Hungry

    842 million people undernourished in 2011-13. Developing countries make progress but more efforts needed to reach MDG target
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  •  @WFP 1 day ago

    RT @FAOKnowledge: Just Out: The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013. Joint Publication by #UNFAO, @ifadnews & @WFP http://t.co/C5U86…

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  •  @WFP 1 day ago

    842 million people on Earth estimated to be hungry, according to annual hunger report by #UNFAO. http://t.co/lHuj6mUSTn #SOFI2013

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  •  Story 1 week ago

    Food Aid Comforts Displaced Residents Of Historic Syrian Town

    The mountain village of Ma’aloula is famous as being one of the few places where the ancient language of Aramaic is still spoken. In Aramaic its name means “entrance”. But that name seems sadly inappropriate now, as fierce fighting in the area has made it the scene of an “exodus” by its few thousand inhabitants.  WFP is assisting many of them on the outskirts of Damascus.
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  •  Video 1 week ago

    US Ships More Wheat For Syrians In Need

    US Ships More Wheat For Syrians In Need

    A ship carrying wheat from the United States of America -- enough to help feed more than 3.5 million Syrians for one month -- has just delivered its cargo to the port of Beirut. The shipment is part of WFP’s massive emergency food assistance operation for Syrians forced to flee the conflict in their country. It’s the second ship to bring US wheat for WFP’s work in Syria in less than six months.
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  •  WFP Photos 2 weeks ago

    WFP food voucher used by Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp

    WFP food voucher used by Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp

    All Syrian refugees living in Zaatari camp, Jordan, are now receiving WFP food vouchers, allowing them to purchase the food of their choice from designated shops in the camp. WFP is currently  transitioning from traditional food rations to vouchers in the camp where over 110,000 refugees live.
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  •  WFP Photos 2 weeks ago

    Zaatari shop where refugees spend food vouchers

    Zaatari shop where refugees spend food vouchers

    Many families in Zaatari camp have not been able to afford meat or chicken in several months. Therefore camp residents are very happy with the shift from food rations to vouchers as this system gives them control over what they buy and eat. It also provides a sense of normalcy as families were used to doing their shopping in supermarkets back home in Syria.
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  •  WFP Photos 2 weeks ago

    Distribution of WFP Food Rations

    Distribution of WFP Food Rations

    Roger Pineda (center) and Mario Lopez are the chairmen of the Rural Boards of Ojo de Agua and El Naranjo, respectively. In this photo, both farmers weigh the rice ration of coffee producer Ernestina Martinez, a widow and mother of eight children.
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  •  WFP Photos 2 weeks ago

    Planting 20,000 Coffee-Rust Resistant Seedlings

    Planting 20,000 Coffee-Rust Resistant Seedlings

    Besides clearing their farmlands through food-for-work activities, small coffee producer also create nurseries where they plant seedlings, such as this one. This nursery has 20,000 seedlings that are Coffee-Rust resistant. It will take at least two years for this seedlings to fully grow and produce coffee.
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  •  WFP Photo Gallery 2 weeks ago

    WFP Assistance To Refugees In Sarvestan, Iran

    WFP Assistance To Refugees In Sarvestan, Iran
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  •  Video 1 week ago

    Three Lives Being Lived in Zaatari Refugee Camp

    Three Lives Being Lived in Zaatari Refugee Camp

    A 5-year-old boy on his first day at school. A mother embracing a new way of feeding her family. An ex-teacher trying to organize sport for the camp’s children. Forced to adapt to new lives as refugees in Jordan’s Zaatari camp, these three Syrians are making the best of things and staying positive. Their individual accounts and personal insights provide an inside view of life in Jordan’s biggest refugee camp. To donate to WFP's operations supporting Syrian refugees, go to: www.wfp.org/syria
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  •  Video 1 week ago

    More Food Assistance Needed In CAR

    More Food Assistance Needed In CAR

    Amid an upsurge of conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), people displaced by fighting are walking for days to reach safe areas. In Bozoum, 400 km northwest of the capital Bangui, WFP's top official in West Africa saw the situation first-hand. WFP is committed to scaling up aid to the displaced, said Denise Brown, the organization's regional director for West Africa
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  •  News Release 1 week ago

    Brazil Donates Rice To WFP Refugee Operation In Ethiopia

    ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today received 1,513 metric tons of rice, valued at US$718,000 (more than 13 million Ethiopian birr), from the Government of Brazil to assist refugees living in various camps in Ethiopia.
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  •  Blog 2 weeks ago

    You Can Help WFP for Free

    We know students want help WFP fight hunger, but we also know donating money isn’t always realistic. Luckily, WFP has several ways to help fight hunger that don’t cost anything.
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  •  Story 2 weeks ago

    A Mother From Syria Goes Shopping For Food

    Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan is home to over 100,000 Syrians who used to depend on food provided to them directly by WFP. Now they’re able to shop for their own food thanks to a voucher programme introduced this month [Read story]. To show how they work, we went grocery shopping with a Syrian mother named Mariam and took these panoramic photos from her day.
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  •  Story 2 weeks ago

    Life On The Brink Of Hunger in Mauritania

    The land is deceptively green in the southern part of Mauritania. Recent rains may have allowed grass to grow and livestock to graze, but the region is still undergoing its “lean season” and, with meager harvests still some months away, the local populations of the southern regions of Brakna, Gorgol, Assaba, Tagant, and Guidimaka are struggling to see themselves through to harvest. 
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  •  News Release 3 weeks ago

    Government Of Bangladesh And WFP Join Forces To Beat Undernutrition

    DHAKA – The Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have today entered into a new partnership to address persistently high rates of maternal and child undernutrition in Bangladesh.
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For news and views on developments in the world of humanitarian aid, go to the Aid Professionals page. There are maps of crisis zones, the aid pro blog, access to the Food Aid Information System and much much more.

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