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What would happen if the guns were silenced and violence suddenly stopped?  To mark the International Day of Peace, we posed that question to WFP country directors in Ukraine, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – three nations where unrest has deepened hunger and smashed lives and futures.  Here are their thoughts about the paybacks of peace. UKRAINE: WFP

The improvement in food security stems from better food consumption, which could be attributed to reduced food prices and improved incomes among farming communities during the harvesting period when the mission was carried out. Despite this positive trend, food insecurity remains high in certain districts, especially Kilinochchi, Nuwara Eliya, Mannar, Batticaloa, Vavuniya, and Jaffna.

The rice import dependency in Timor-Leste means that changes in international rice prices directly affect domestic prices. This short bulletin outlines the factors impacting rice price increases, provides a snapshot of the main Asian rice markets, and sets out key recommendations for action to mitigate the rice price increase factors on the people of Timor-Leste.

The activation, co-funded by Germany, the European Union, and Norway, will enable the dissemination of early warning text messages, the distribution of drought-tolerant seeds and anticipatory cash, and the provision of safe water for communities and livestock.

Shupikai Chaparapata points to the crops sprouting on either side of a sandy path cutting through her field in Zimbabwe’s northeastern Mudzi district. To her left, her maize is yellow and wilted from unrelenting dry weather.

About WFP WFP reached 160 million people in 2022, with a presence 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.

Elizabeth Nyamayaro knows her ducks and, especially, her mission. Her intel on ducks comes from southern Egypt, where a World Food Programme (WFP) project built resilience and women’s empowerment in a deeply conservative community. Her mission was forged from battling extreme hunger as a child in rural Zimbabwe.

“Some cows refused to cross the water,” says cattle farmer Eric Mutabazi, recalling the days when it took hours to find a safe place to cross the Lwizi river, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Tanganyika province. Its treacherous waters meant “the safety of my livestock and my income were at stake,” he says. But what could Mutabazi do?

As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical. WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.

A tattered football sails off the field at Shree Kakani Ganesh Primary School, in the central Nepalese village of Kakani. The game pauses, as 12-year-old team captain Ravi stops and strains his ears.