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Thank you for sharing this story and for showing response to the complex emergency in Haiti 🇭🇹.
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Haiti
is currently facing a complex emergency, with cholera.
This report by @GuillermoGaldos shows how my colleagues at @WFP are supporting the response.
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Have you seen our latest publication on 's anticipatory action to reduce climate impacts on food security in #LatinAmerica + the #Caribbean 🍃♻️🏞️💚🌱?
Read: bit.ly/3B1A7rO
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Joint UN , and action is improving food security, nutrition & resilience in Lao PDR🇱🇦
“The work of the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies is essential to address food insecurity in Lao PDR,” says
Details👉 bit.ly/3FiD363
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We're sailing! The 1st shipment of fertilizer is now en route to Malawi—as part of a donation of 260k tons from Russian producers.
To avert massive crop losses and food shortages next year, we must ALL work together to move food & fertilizers from every nation in the world.
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"I feel deeply privileged to be able to use my voice🔊 my power💪to advocate for people affected by hunger, particularly women and girls. Gender equality and women’s empowerment play a key role in achieving a world without hunger,” says founder
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, star of Chefs Table, is appointed Chef Advocate. Asma will draw attention to the⤵️
🟢🌍global hunger crisis
🟢role of👭🏽👭🏾Womens' empowerment in ending hunger.
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Thank you for the HeadsUp. This will be a good resource for #Journalists covering food systems, nutrition, and hunger to learn about countries' progress toward the World Health Assembly's global nutrition targets.
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The 2022 Global Nutrition Report: stronger commitments for greater action, is out on 6 December. Sign up to receive the report and the launch pack, and translations and PDF versions when available: lnutritionreport.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=15
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The and UNHCR warns of an imminent cut to food assistance to crisis-affected refugees in #Chad unless urgent funding to bridge major funding shortfalls is received.
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“We have received reports of an increase of malnourished children admitted in health centers, and have witnessed less children than usual attending school when compared to last year," said @UNHCRChad Representative
📻Learn more 📍bit.ly/3XIbTwI
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"Refugees count on us for what is sometimes the only meal they eat in a day food is a vital lifeline. Cutting this lifeline now will have devastating consequences on the most vulnerable, especially women, girls + children" –
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Today, a record 349 million people across 79 countries are facing acute food insecurity, with 49 million on the edge of famine in 49 countries.
Learn more about The Weeknd’s work with the wfp.org/TheWeeknd.
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📢#NewsRelease
WFP Goodwill Ambassador raises US💲5M to fight global hunger.
↪️ “On stage and off stage, The Weeknd is bringing hope and happiness to millions of people across the globe,” said
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“Money for families means they can afford food and medicines – this is critical when you are uprooted by conflict, and you have lost your homes and income,’’ says Country Director in #RDCongo 🇨🇩
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#PressRelease👉With US$ 17.5 million cash assistance from EU Humanitarian Aid department has been able to reach some 1.2 million vulnerable people in Eastern #RDCongo 🇨🇩
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Across Ethiopia, 22 million people need food assistance which includes 9.8 million people in the drought-affected southern & southeastern parts of the country, where 4 consecutive failed rainy seasons have caused crop failures, livestock deaths and malnutrition.
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The has delivered over 2,400 metric tons of
food, medical, nutrition + other lifesaving supplies to Ethiopia’s Tigray region following the signing of a peace agreement earlier this month & the reopening of all four road corridors.
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“Food security is a major global challenge. The French contribution to in Sri Lanka will bolster the resilience of the most vulnerable populations," says , France Ambassador to Sri Lanka.
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The French Government has donated EUR 500,000 to Sri Lanka. This means nearly 9,000 families experiencing severe food insecurity receive nutritious foods to help them feed their under-five children.
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📢#PRESSRELEASE⤵️
The has launched a new project for school children funded by to supplement the lunches of approximately 1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣students in 1,400 primary schools across Lao PDR.
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“People in Araya told me that our school meals program has made a big difference in their lives. They can stretch their incomes further to cover other daily essentials knowing that their children are guaranteed a healthy meal each day in school," says
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📢PRESS RELEASE
Fiji, the & partners deploy medical personnel and supplies in solidarity with Tuvalu's #COVID19 response effort. Find out more ☞ wfp.org/news/fiji-un-a
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Inga Dóra Pétursdóttir, head of Mission Embassy of Iceland in Malawi says🖡
“Increasing risk of climatic shocks worsens a vicious cycle of food insecurity, which is why Iceland partnered with to help vulnerable families to mitigate & manage the impacts of these shocks.”
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“As world leaders and experts meet at COP27 in Egypt, we must highlight the urgent need to help communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and invest in durable solutions," says Paul Turnbull, Country Director in Malawi.
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📢PRESS RELEASE
🟢 US$ 4.1 million contribution from the Governments of Iceland and Norway to support 270,000 people facing severe hunger at the peak of the lean season in Malawi.
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🇬🇧 is a committed partner on disaster risk finance. Pleased that this grant will enable to protect communities in the Sahel, Madagascar, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Haiti. This will build climate resilience and address acute food insecurity, helping WFP to save lives
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The @WFP and the @WorldBank have signed an agreement to increase disaster risk protection. WFP will receive US$20 million from Germany + UK to help expand WFP's climate & disaster risk financing coverage in 23 countries around the world.
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The and the have signed an agreement to increase disaster risk protection. WFP will receive US$20 million from Germany + UK to help expand WFP's climate & disaster risk financing coverage in 23 countries around the world.
Press Release👉bit.ly/3Ah2mCM
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We are fast running out of time to stop this global food crisis from spinning out of control. The Bali Summit is a critical opportunity to act before it is too late for the millions starving today. We cannot let it go to waste.
My Op-Ed: globalgovernanceproject.org/a-tsunami-of-h
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#Mozambique
🛑Violence has intensified in recent months in northern Mozambique.
🛑Over half the people displaced are children.
🛑WFP urgently needs support to continue life-saving food and nutrition assistance beyond February.
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News alert: First shipment of Russian fertilizer marks breakthrough in global supply crunch
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#SouthSudan is in a climate emergency.
Large swaths of land have been engulfed by flood waters.
Extreme climate is driving hunger.
At #COP27 WFP is calling for urgent climate financing for fragile nations before it's too late.
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📢 Attention media 📢
#COP27
Today, WFP is hosting a press conference on the urgent need for investment in climate action in fragile contexts.
Today from 11.30 – 12.00 (local time)
Venue: Press conference room – Cairo, Nefertiti Area
Follow online: unfccc.int/virtual
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📢 Attention media 📢
#COP27
WFP is hosting a press conference on the urgent need for investment in climate action in fragile contexts.
Saturday, 12th November | 11.30 – 12.00
Venue: Press conference room – Cairo, Nefertiti Area
Follow online: unfccc.int/virtual
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Funds dry up as hunger looms in northern #Mozambique
WFP is warning that it will be forced to suspend its life-saving assistance to one million people - at the peak of the hunger season in February - unless additional funding is urgently received.
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