Amid COVID job losses, ‘high food prices are hunger’s new best friend’, WFP warns

Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to eat, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.

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Soaring food prices, conflicts driving hunger, rise across West and Central Africa: WFP

16 Apr 2021

More than 31 million people across West and Central Africa may not have enough to eat in the coming months as hunger rises due to an “explosive mix” of skyrocketing food prices, conflict and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine

21 Oct 2021

More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

One in three Venezuelans not getting enough to eat, UN study finds

25 Feb 2020

Hyperinflation in Venezuela means that roughly one-third of the population – more than nine million people – do not get enough to eat and are in need of assistance, according to estimates published on Tuesday by the World Food Programme (WFP).