By Courtney Bennett, Food Systems Process Manager With the launch of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as the Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt, world leaders, UN Agencies, and other key stakeholders, including community-based organisations, have begun to arrive in Sharm El-Sheikh. Under the presidency…

By Isaac Onyango Every day, the World Food Programme (WFP) works around the clock to save lives and change lives for a world without hunger. But we can’t end hunger without a healthy and sustainable planet. Right now, our Earth faces a triple planetary emergency: the climate is heating up too…

WFP is prepositioning 73,000 tons of food items ahead of the approaching rainy season — By Leni Kinzli and Rayyan Elbashier Awatif and her family live in a temporary camp in the town of Al Fao in Gedaref State in eastern Sudan. A mother of nine, heavy rains and flooding forced them and hundreds of other families to abandon their homes and livelihoods and to…

Urban dwellers dependent on the cash economy Tatenda Macheka Nyarai Mugarisi , a 43-year-old mother-of-four, reflects on price increases in recent months. She lives in Chiredzi, a small town in Masvingo province. …

A market gardening project supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) is empowering refugees and vulnerable people in the Republic of Congo. Cécile Mercier The Republic of Congo has been welcoming Central African refugees since late 2013, when waves of conflict, violence, and destruction began to affect its northern neighbour…

“I can now store food for longer and sell any surplus at the local market when prices are high.” — By Pratibedan Baidya Mohamed is one of over 10,000 farmers in the food insecure Darfur region of western Sudan who are benefiting from the World Food Programme’s…

“I miss my home, but I do not feel that it is safe enough to go back. Peace, food and security are my main priorities.” — By JohnPaul Sesonga Joselyne and her six children fled their home in the village of Kirundo in north-east Burundi when violence broke out following elections in 2015. Today, she is one of 38,000 Burundian refugees living in Mahama Camp in south-east Rwanda. “I heard shooting and people screaming,” says Joselyne…

In the face of a severe drought, it’s the only daily meal for many children — By Martin Karimi Asna wants to become a doctor so that she can save people’s lives. The 14-year-old is a student at Kilimani primary school in Isiolo in northern Kenya where the mainly pastoralist communities are suffering from the impact of a severe drought. Isiolo is one of the worst…

A story of endurance Volana Rarivosan Bekily is one of four districts in the Androy region, located in southeastern Madagascar. Agriculture and livestock are the main economic activities practiced by most of its population. In more fruitful times, Bekily produced rice, peanuts and manioc (cassava), which was supplied to markets…