Dili – The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) work together to present the Prime Minister’s National Nutrition Awards to the nutrition and food security champions of 2021. The award aims to acknowledge respective communities and community groups that have shown exemplary commitments to improving the nutritional and food security status in Timor-Leste.
New Delhi - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and NITI Aayog, a government thinktank, will work together on strengthening climate resilience and food security by tapping into climate-resilient millet.
MANILA – The World Food Programme (WFP) warmly welcomes Ireland’s donation of €250,000 (approx. Php 14 million), the first funding contribution to WFP’s emergency response to Super Typhoon Odette (internationally known as “Rai”).
SANA’A – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that it is running out of funds to continue to provide food assistance to13 million people in Yemen. From January, eight million will receive a reduced food ration, while five million at immediate risk of slipping into famine conditions will remain on a full ration.
NDJAMENA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to about 100,000 newly-arrived Cameroonian refugees in Chad who are in dire need of humanitarian assistance after being forced to flee their homes due to inter-communal conflicts in north-eastern Cameroon.
Khartoum – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a EUR 10 million contribution from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) for life-saving food assistance in Sudan, in addition to EUR 13 million received at the beginning of 2021.
DUSHANBE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has supported the construction and rehabilitation of 70 houses damaged or destroyed by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Rasht Valley back in July.
DILI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 120,000 contribution from the Government of Brazil to help restore the livelihoods of farming communities devastated by the cyclone that hit Timor-Leste in April. More than 31,000 households were affected, and some 2,660 hectares of irrigated land were destroyed by the storm.
Nairobi, Kenya - The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has received a donation of 240 metric tons of vegetable oil worth over $500,000 from the U.S. Government through its Agency for International Development (USAID), to support refugees in Uganda and South Sudan.
BAGHDAD – As an immediate response to the flash floods that hit northern Iraq last week, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner World Vision International (WVI) have provided 235 flood-affected Syrian refugee families in Qushtapa camp in Erbil with emergency ready-to-eat food assistance.
MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing crucial emergency logistics and telecommunications support to the Government of the Philippines in its response to the devastation caused by Typhoon Rai. This is the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in 2021 and the third strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines in December since the 1950s.
KABUL/ISLAMABAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 8 million contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea towards its emergency operations in Afghanistan, and an additional US$ 1 million for needs in Pakistan.
SUVA, FIJI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the return of the Donate Responsibly campaign to raise awareness about responsible ways of donating to help disaster-affected communities recover better and faster.
KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly ramping up humanitarian operations in Afghanistan to assist more than 23 million people facing severe hunger in the country in 2022, as inflation and currency depreciation make it even more difficult to feed themselves. WFP has assisted 15 million people so far in 2021, with 7 million assisted in November alone – up from 4 million in September.
BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partners have inaugurated a new olive press machine as part of economic regeneration efforts for the local community in Bashiqa, Iraq. WFP, the Governor’s office, Mayor’s office, the Bashiqa Olive Association and Samaritan’s Purse’s aim is to bring this renowned olive-producing community back to the levels of production before conflict and connect producers to markets.
BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is collaborating with Iraqi academic institutions including the University of Basra, the University of Mosul and the University of Sulaymaniyah on activities aimed at reducing the risk of food insecurity in vulnerable communities through resilience building and climate change adaptation. The collaboration is part of efforts to make progress towards Strategic Development Goal (SDG) 2 “Zero Hunger.”
DAKAR – The number of acutely food insecure people in West and Central Africa has now risen to a record high of 28 million people and trends point toward a further deterioration if support to stem the spread of hunger is not ramped up, two UN agencies - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP - warned today.
London - As a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Afghanistan: almost 23 million people facing severe hunger, a global cinema advertising campaign featuring leading names from the film, advertising and humanitarian worlds, and aimed at stirring UK cinema audiences into action to tackle global hunger, includes the people of Afghanistan in their campaign to fight hunger. SAWA, the Global Cinema Advertising Association, in association with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, created the “Feed Our Future” campaign to highlight the potential that is lost every time a child dies of hunger.
LUSAKA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Citibank Zambia Limited and MTN Zambia have for the first time, provided cash assistance to people living in Mantapala Refugee Settlement, home to around 18,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), through a digital payment solution, plugPAY. Under the initiative, the payment platform allows WFP to transfer cash directly to refugees’ bank accounts or mobile wallets of choice while using the country’s interoperable payment gateway, the National Financial Switch.
Tripoli – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a €1 million contribution from the European Union to support WFP-led humanitarian air operations in Libya.
A new partnership between the Islamic Development Bank, the World Food Programme and The Power of Nutrition for the design and implementation of the First 1,000 Days Initiative and Multi-Donor Trust Fund
SEOUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 2 million contribution from the Republic of Korea towards its school feeding operations in three African countries - Guinea, Rwanda, and Benin. This will help ensure that school aged children have access to school meals, as well as support governments to scale up and improve the quality of their national school feeding programmes
ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is facing a major funding shortfall over the next six months threatening its ability to meet the critical food and nutrition needs of millions of food insecure Ethiopians and refugees.
James Beard Award winning chef expands his global advocacy to fight global hunger and food waste
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United Nations World Food Programme today announced that award-winning chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern has been named a Goodwill Ambassador, joining an esteemed group of ambassadors including Kate Hudson, Michael Kors and The Weeknd.
BIRGUNJ – The Government of Nepal, the British Embassy, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today inaugurated a new Humanitarian Staging Area (HSA) in Birgunj, Province 2, as part of the continued effort in strengthening the country’s emergency preparedness and response capacity.
