A month after devastating floods swept through valleys in northern Nepal, Â鶹ÊÓƵ assistance continues to provide a vital lifeline to affected communities that remain highly vulnerable. Widespread displacement, lost livelihoods, damaged farmland, and disrupted market access are affecting families¡¯ ability to feed themselves properly, without assistance.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is rapidly scaling its operations in Venezuela and expanding food assistance aimed at reaching up to half a million people in the areas hardest hit by last week¡¯s earthquakes.
As the full extent of Hurricane Melissa¡¯s destruction emerges, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is intensifying relief efforts in the hardest-hit areas to support local authorities. Almost 6 million people across Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti have been impacted by the storm.
Seven earthquakes with magnitudes reaching 6.3 and multiple aftershocks have struck Herat Province in Western Afghanistan within eight days. Dozens of villages are affected, many of them entirely flattened with at least 1,400 people killed and more than 1,800 injured, according to official figures. The majority of victims are women and children.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has scaled up its emergency food assistance in Syria and °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð since the beginning of the crisis, reaching over 300,000 quake-affected people in both countries and plans to reach a total of close to 900,000 people.?
The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is on the ground responding to the devastating impact of the two earthquakes that hit °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð and Syria on Monday 6 February. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been delivering food assistance since Tuesday with plans to reach half a million people in the two countries.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing emergency assistance to families affected by the 22 June earthquake that hit the south-eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost and has teams on the ground assessing humanitarian needs among earthquake-hit families.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing the driest conditions recorded since 1981, with severe drought leaving an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia facing severe hunger in the first quarter of this year, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned.
Bringing heavy rains, violent winds and storm surges, Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on the central-eastern coast of Madagascar on Saturday. Storms during the agricultural season (that runs from October-April) have the potential to wipe out harvest, send food prices soaring and increase food insecurity.
The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fueled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, Â鶹ÊÓƵ warns ahead of World Food Day.
Battered by multiple crises in recent years, Haitians who survived the recent 7.2 magnitude earthquake are now dealing with crumbled homes, lost livelihoods and limited or no access to food
Hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has increased almost fourfold over the past two years - from 2.2 million people in 2018 to close to 8 million people in 2021 ¨C a result of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and years of extreme climate events. Of this figure, 1.7 million people are in the ¡®Emergency¡¯ category of food insecurity and require urgent food assistance.
Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days.
Heavy rains, high winds, deadly landslides and floods unleashed by Eta after making landfall in Nicaragua earlier this month killed dozens of people, destroyed infrastructure and hurt rural livelihoods along its path in Central America, including in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras
Â鶹ÊÓƵ predicts the number of people with severe food insecurity in the Dry Corridor could increase from more than 1.6 million in 2019 to close to 3 million in 2020, due to the socioeconomic fallout of COVID-19.
The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries.
To tackle the rising tide of hunger, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is undertaking the biggest humanitarian response in its history, ramping up the number of people it assists to up to 138 million from a record 97 million in 2019. But sustained funding is urgently required to respond to the immediate consequences of the pandemic on the most vulnerable, and support governments and partners as they curb the spread of the disease and deal with the fallout from the pandemic. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is appealing for a US$ 4.9 billion over the next six months for its life-saving work in 83 countries.
As well as delivering life-saving assistance on the front-lines of hunger, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is uniquely positioned to help governments assist and empower vulnerable communities through support to social protection systems, access to basic school-based and nutrition services, and support to food systems.
A wave of desert locusts in East Africa is now forming more swarms in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, putting at risk the main crop harvest in May and June, and threatening the food security of smallholder farmers.
In South Sudan, desert locusts have affected four counties in Eastern Equatoria region since arriving in mid-February.
The March-April start of the long rains, coinciding with regeneration of rangeland and planting, enables the new wave of locusts to breed and spread.
It will be vastly more cost-effective to support the prevention and control efforts of Governments and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to tackle locusts now than to help people after their crops had been ruined.
