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  • @WFP 1 day ago

    Increasingly complex world and emergencies call for boosting impact of new tools ED Cousin tells @IFPRI: "@WFP always forward leaning."

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  • Video 4 hours ago

    A Grain Of Hope For Refugees From Mali

    A Grain Of Hope For Refugees From Mali

    Close to 70,000 refugees from the conflict in Mali have come to the M'bera refugee camp in Mauritania in search of food and safety. Drought across the Sahel region of Africa has made life precarious for residents and refugees alike. With the rains fast approaching, it's a race against time to deliver enough food to last the camp through the summer before the roads turn to mud.
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  • @WFP 3 hours ago

    We can't make rain in West Africa. But we can help people going hungry there. http://t.co/2Xa1L91k #sahel #food4sahel

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  • Video 2 hours ago

    Rays Of Hope In Niger

    Rays Of Hope In Niger

    Nutrition programmes are bearing fruit in Niger where special food products are helping to protect young children from malnutrition as their families struggle to make it through a long and difficult drought.
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  • Story 2 hours ago

    WFP Races To Assist Refugees From Mali

    WFP has launched an emergency operation to deliver life-saving food assistance to thousands of people fleeing conflict in Mali. As refugees stream into areas already strained by drought in the Sahel, it's imperative to reach them with assistance in time for the summer Hunger Season.
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  • News Release 2 days ago

    U.S. Government Donates US $30 Million To WFP's Emergency Operation In South Sudan

    Juba – The United States Government has announced a cash donation of US$30 million toward the emergency relief operation of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist conflict-affected and food-insecure people in South Sudan. The contribution will be delivered through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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  • Story 1 week ago

    Thousands Fleeing Fighting In Democratic Republic Of Congo Take Refuge In Rwanda

    Fighting in the North Kivu province of the DRC forced over 7,000 people to flee their homes to Rwanda in recent weeks and others are still coming.
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  • @WFP 1 day ago

    RT @Steph_Tremblay: This may look like the desert but is in fact a freshly planted field in Niger. Farmers here hope for rain + no locus ...

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  • Hunger in the News 2 days ago

    Sustainable development is the only way forward

    Source: The Guardian The term "sustainable development" emerged in the 1970s and 80s as awareness grew of the natural limits within which human development takes place. Despite near-universal recognition that it is a powerful unifying concept, bringing together social, economic and environmental factors, it has spent the past 20 years since the first Rio earth summit languishing in environment ministries. But it now appears possible, even probable, that sustainable development will emerge as the main framework for development practice in the coming decades, replacing or rebalancing the poverty eradication focus of recent years.
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  • Story 2 days ago

    Footballs and Literacy Change Lives for Afghan Women

    WFP food rations can be an incentive for families to send women on training courses, where they learn how to read and write as well as basic marketable crafts. Enjila Hashimi spoke to women on a course in Kabul to find out what difference such a food-for-training activity had made in their lives.
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  • News Release 1 day ago

    WFP And UNHCR Warn Of Rapidly Worsening Refugee Crisis In Hunger-Stricken Sahel

    ROME/GENEVA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a regional emergency operation alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in response to the specific food needs of hundreds of thousands of people who have fled conflict in Mali and crossed the border into neighbouring countries.
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  • Hunger in the News 5 days ago

    Obama Food Speech Puts Rising Global Hunger Threat on G-8 Agenda

    Source: Bloomberg Businessweek President Barack Obama today will call for a new phase of African food aid focused on private- sector development to ease threats to global security posed by scarce nutrition. (..) Obama will announce new investments in African agriculture in a speech in Washington -- his first addressing food insecurity -- as a precursor to the weekend G-8 summit at Camp David, Maryland. (..) World food supplies are being stressed by rising demand in emerging markets and increased use of crops in biofuels, leading to higher and more volatile prices, according to a U.S. intelligence report released last week.
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  • Story 6 days ago

    G8: Public and Private Coming Together

    As world leaders from the Group of Eight meet this weekend to discuss global food security, WFP's Director of Communications and Private Partnerships, Nancy Roman, writes about the exciting inroads against hunger that become possible when governments team up with business.
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  • WFP Photos 1 week ago

    Food For Syrian Refugees In Jordan

    Food For Syrian Refugees In Jordan
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week ago

    WFP: Sahel in Urgent Need of Aid

    Source: VOA WFP West Africa spokesman Malik Triki said food crises in the Sahel have become more frequent in recent years - but not like this. (..) Whereas the 2005 and 2010 food crises hit mainly two countries - in Niger and Chad - this current crisis has hit in no less than 8 countries from Mauritania all the way to Chad,” he said. (..) This operation costs at least $790 million. And we still have a shortfall of around $360 million," he said.
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    After Long Journey, South Sudan Returnees Come Home To Juba

    After Long Journey, South Sudan Returnees Come Home To Juba
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  • Video 1 week ago

    Hungry Planet: Rio+20 edition

    Hungry Planet: Rio+20 edition

    The latest episode of Hungry Planet features a special report ahead of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. A family in Bangladesh learns to cope with climate change; families from Chad struggle with drought in the Sahel region of Africa; and families in Ethiopia find ways to grow more and better food.
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    Refugees From Mali Find Hope And Food

    Refugees From Mali Find Hope And Food
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  • Food Factor Podcast 1 week ago

    Responding To Drought And Conflict In Mali

    Drought and conflict are a recipe for disaster in a country like Mali where hunger and malnutrition indicators are high even in the best of times. In this episode, we talk with WFP Country Director Nancy Walters who is leading a complex emergency operation to deliver food to people affected by the crisis.
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  • Youtube Video 2 weeks ago

    "I Will Take This Money And I Will Buy Food"

    "I Will Take This Money And I Will Buy Food"

    WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin visits a village in Niger where WFP is providing families with cash in exchange for work on projects building long-term food security in their community.
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