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Over 1.35 million Zambians (10% of the analysed population) are experiencing severe food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 - Crisis) between July and September...

Highlights The humanitarian situation, especially in the central Sahel, remained dire and was compounded by rising food and energy prices, as well as climate–related disasters, prompted by heavy rainfall...

WFP launched its remote monitoring system (mVAM) in Bangladesh in July 2022 to provide near real-time analytics on food security and essential needs analysis across...

The world is facing a reckoning when it comes to energy supply. Despite decades of calls to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, countries have persisted on the widespread use...

The ripple effects of the war in Ukraine have disrupted energy and food markets. Among many other factors, supply chain disruptions and price spikes in key commodities...

After two years of fighting COVID-19, the world economy has been left in a fragile state. Today, 60 per cent of workers have lower real incomes...

The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates the increase in acute hunger following the Ukraine conflict. It models the pass-through of price increases on global grain and energy markets...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has major implications for food security across the world as well as the region, given both countries’ major roles in global food markets...

The first half of 2022 has witnessed one of the largest shocks to global food and energy markets that the world has seen in decades. As economies rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic...

Highlights The agricultural, cereal, and export price indices closed at levels similar to those of 2 weeks ago. Domestic food price inflation continues to remain...