World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

A boy goes to fetch water from a pond created by the community to help water crops and feed animals. The livelihoods programme targets 300,000 moderately food-insecure people, helping them to help themselves.
 

Women return home with cowpeas harvested under the assets programme. The cowpeas, as well as their shells, are highly nutritious.

WFP’s new programme provides critical support to the Karamoja Action Plan for Food Security, a comprehensive Government strategy aimed at ending hunger in a region also troubled by gun violence, poor infrastructure and extreme poverty.

A girl attends a community mobilisation session in the drought-affected northeastern Karamoja region. WFP recently launched a livelihoods programme to help reduce the need for and dependency on relief food among the region’s estimated one million people.

Biron Nanya, 47, from Kotido district lost four children in two years due to drought-related circumstances. The new programme helps people to diversify and strengthen their livelihoods. Subsequently, parents can better provide for their children.

Women plant pines in Ka’abong district. Excessive cutting of trees has led to environmental degradation, which undermines food security in Karamoja. WFP will help to curb negative survival practices and help to regenerate the environment.

A boy returns from fetching water. Like the surface dams, ponds allow harvesting and storage of rain water. WFP allows communities to pick specific appropriate livelihood activities and projects where they need support.

The harvest. The livelihoods programme complements WFP’s emergency operation, which supports the region’s most vulnerable people including women and children, estimated at slightly over 300,000.

Women construct surface dams in Ka’abong district. Using food or cash incentives, WFP encourages communities to build productive physical assets and gain skills for protecting and regenerating the environment, enhancing nutrition and harvesting water.

Brothers stand in their sorghum garden in Kotido district. WFP supports the cultivation of staple foods, fruits and vegetables in close collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization and other partners.