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Throughout this year, the World Food Programme (WFP) has increased assistance to all famine risk areas in Yemen, but as the economy keeps deteriorating, families are struggling to survive even with food assistance

‘People affected by the climate crisis do not have the luxury to wait until the world’s changed course on greenhouse gas emissions’

The World Food Programme appeals for vital funding and decisive political action to break the corrosive cycle of conflict and hunger

Global Report on Food Crises confirms World Food Programme and humanitarian community's worst fears over critical nutrition

Dispelling myths around the starvation and disease that could kill 34 million people

Six years of conflict have taken a devastating toll on millions of people, and now famine is a stark reality without urgently needed funding.

High-level donor conference convened by UN hears millions are at risk of starvation without immediate intervention

As the World Food Programme launches a major new report, the organization's school feeding director Carmen Burbano discusses the impact of 39 billion missed meals

Lack of funds and obstacles on the ground lead to increasing hunger for millions of Yemenis

With four countries on the brink of catastrophe, Margot van der Velden urges the world to step up

What a year it's been—below, a selection of our favourite stories to usher in 2021

A look back at the year in which WFP stepped up to unprecedented challenges and fed 100 million people in 88 countries

Elaf and Amina are survivors of an ongoing conflict — their displaced families are supported by the World Food Programme. Below, they offer a touching glimpse of their worlds. By Annabel Symington

Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme identify 20 countries as hunger hotspots, with Burkina Faso, Yemen, Nigeria's North East and South Sudan facing the highest threat

As needs spiral upwards, WFP calls for urgent financial support and unhindered humanitarian access

Moved by the tragedy in Yemen, 20-year-old Nicola Parfitt decided to make her voice heard — and gained 12,000 followers

The United Nations World Food Programme's saves food stored at the Red Sea Mills near Hodeidah nearly two years after Yemen's war had cut off access to half of the agency's stock of wheat in the country.

WFP urgently needs US$737 million to continue to deliver food assistance until the end of the year

While recorded infections are low, the pandemic is believed to be sweeping across the country undetected. In a country beset by conflict and climate shocks, funding is required fast

Two World Food Programme nutrition experts on how to protect the most vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic

After five years of conflict in Yemen, five people reflect on what this has meant for them and their families. Their stories highlight the human cost of Yemen's war, yet at the same time the country's amazing resilience, dignity and hope.

Out of more than 12 million people we support there each month, they are the ones the most likely to go hungry

An interview with WFP's programme policy officer Itaru Furuta

Updates on WFP operations in the country

The statement, delivered on 17 June, highlighted the difficulties WFP is facing in providing humanitarian assistance in the war-torn country