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

Increased costs set to affect World Food Programme operations and impact the most vulnerable well beyond Ukraine’s borders

Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen braced for ‘starvation and death’, says FAO and WFP study

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

WFP's Country Director talks about food's key role in building stability and the search for longer-term solutions

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

In Yemen, there is no such thing as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not any more. In fact, for many people, there is hardly such a thing as…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dispelling myths around the starvation and disease that could kill 44 million people

Most families are struggling every day in hunger-stricken Hodeidah

The World Food Programme (WFP) provides crucial nutrition support to women and children in the midst of conflict

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

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

Updates on WFP operations in the country

Untangling "lifesaving communications" in the largest hunger crisis gripping the world

Photos of Yemeni children capture how conflict is affecting their everyday lives and jeopardizing their futures

Seven women share their experiences of extreme hardship during Ramadan in war-torn Yemen

Conflict feeds hunger. Three years of devastating conflict in Yemen have left the country crippled by hunger, poverty and disease.