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Climate extremes are a key driver of food insecurity. Traditional humanitarian response systems need to evolve from crisis response to forward-looking risk management. Recognizing the urgency of the problem, WFP works with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean that are investing in early warning systems to better anticipate and respond to hazards.

Bolstering nationally owned anticipatory systems to reduce climate impacts on food security

Climate extremes are a key driver of food insecurity. Traditional humanitarian response systems need to evolve from crisis response to forward-looking risk management. Recognizing the urgency of the problem, WFP works with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean that are investing in early warning systems to better anticipate and respond to hazards.

This Bulletin provides an overview of the climate situation and impacts on agriculture and food security from July to September 2022 as well as the climate outlook from November 2022 to January 2023. The bulletin was jointly prepared by Government partners and WFP (in English and Bahasa Indonesia).

Bangladesh has a long history in delivering assistance to its poor and has made significant progress in improving food security and addressing malnutrition. Despite laudable achievements in closing the poverty gap, access to diverse and nutritious food remains a challenge for many households. See how WFP is helping Bangladesh to reach zero hunger by 2030

El equipo de oficina paísGuatemaladel Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) ha elaborado estos términos de referencia juntamente conel Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (MIDES), Ministerio de Salud Públicay Asistencia Social(MSPAS) y la Secretaríade Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SESAN)basándose en un examen documental inicial, en consulta con las partes interesadas y siguiendo un modelo estándar.

The FAO Food Price Index remained stable in October 2022 compared to the previous month – but global wheat, maize and rice prices were on the rise again amidst renewed uncertainties around the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

In Cambodia, the cost of the basic food basket (BFB) increased by +7.0 percent compared to Sept’22 and now stands at US$28.4 per capita/month. This is chiefly driven by the spike in the price of morning glory (+38.8 percent MoM), amidst large-scale flooding in September/early October. The WFP seasonal monitor confirms that flash floods caused by excess rainfall have significantly damaged agricultural crop production in the provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Zimbabwe to deliver climate information to the local population through Anticipatory Action (AA).

The Female Climate Accelerator Program funded by the Norwegian Capacity (NORCAP) is a mentorship program which aims to equip female scientists with the needed technical, field, and social skills in the climate services sector to accelerate innovative science-based solutions and enhance the gender role in the development and delivery of climate services. Increasing the number of female climate experts will benefit the communities, including those areas where women have been marginalised and have limited access to climate information, also will contribute to offering new solutions to mitigating the impacts of a changing climate. This factsheet describes this partnership between NORCAP and WFP and the experience of WFP’s first female climate services mentee.

Los presentes términos de referencia corresponden a la evaluación intermedia del proyecto de Resiliencia climática de los hogares rurales del corredor seco en Nicaragua, con un componente regional
que abarca Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador.

In Lao PDR, WFP is rolling out household food security surveys through mobile vulnerability analysis and mapping (mVAM). These remote surveys use a phone-based (CATI) methodology to understand the changes in the food security situation and underlying factors across the country.

In 2021, WFP provided school meals or snacks to 15.5 million schoolchildren in 78 countries. Learn more about WFP School Feeding activities in 2021 with this infographic.

WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and a trajectory of working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes. This factsheet provides an overview on school feeding programmes and their impact.

The terms of reference (TOR) aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

WFP is boosting resilience at scale in the Sahel by restoring land, building community infrastructure, promoting education, improving nutrition and health, and creating jobs for women and young people in the G5 Sahel countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. More than 2.5 million people benefited from activities only during the first half of 2022 and over 158,000 hectares of land were rehabilitated by Sahelians since 2018.

The programme is already demonstrating positive outcomes in terms of food security, economic empowerment, natural regeneration, nutrition, access to social services, reduction of negative coping mechanisms and daily hardships, as well as social cohesion. Most importantly, beneficiaries’ food security remained stable or improved in most countries and years despite the various shocks and stressors affecting the region and an increasingly difficult context marked by a deterioration of food security.

A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the World Food Programme's (WFP) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of WFP’s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about WFP’s response.

A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the World Food Programme's (WFP) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of WFP’s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about WFP’s response.