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“People started running, so we ran,” says farmer Eliza Edward who lost her husband to massive floods triggered by Cyclone Freddy that swept Malawi earlier this month. Eliza was forced to flee her home at the foot of Soche Hill, on the outskirts of the country’s commercial capital, Blantyre. After lashing other parts of Southern Africa last month, including Mozambique and Madagascar, Fred

Fill in the blank: A zero hunger world needs: _____ If you were thinking peace, cooperation or funding, you would be right.

Spring kicks off tidings of new beginnings for many in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s also a reminder of how fragile the seasons that have traditionally been taken for granted the world over have become. Summers spill into winters and winters spill into summers.

“The country is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century and WFP’s food assistance is the last lifeline for millions of Afghans,” said Hsiao-Wei Lee, WFP Country Director in Afghanistan. “The reduction of food assistance comes when Afghans are emerging from another freezing winter and are already worn-down from battling one crisis after another.

The cyclone hit the southern African country just as the rainy season was tailing off with several rivers and water bodies already at high levels resulting in severe flooding.  This has inundated farmlands and destroyed produce – just as farmers were about to harvest the only crop of the year - compounding an already difficult year in which 3.8 million people need food assistance.

Following an unprecedented food crisis in 2022, Niger continues to face high levels of food insecurity, with two million people having experienced irregular access to safe and nutritious food over the last quarter of 2022, according to the November Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis.

Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint music from a nearby house – the tail end of a wedding party – and the darkness by a single light. Mec Sinat is already at work beneath her house which sits on stilts.

At the request of the government, a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited the country from 14 November to 2 December 2022 to estimate the 2022 crop production, to forecast the country’s import requirements for 2023 and to estimate the number of food insecure people.

About WFP WFP worked to save and change the lives of about 158 million people in 2022. We support people in over 120 countries and territories. WFP is among the first on the scene in an emergency, providing food and other assistance to people affected by conflict, drought, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and crop failures, as well as pandemics such as COVID-19.

Green shoots of promise are pushing up from the conflict-scarred earth of Darfur, in western Sudan. Literally.  Primary schools are growing potatoes. tomatoes and spinach on government-allocated land.