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The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...

In 2021, WFP distributed 1,478,081 MT of fortified foods – the equivalent of more than 3 billion rations, or enough for 17 million people to have their daily...

This study is one of a set of country scoping studies commissioned by WFP’s Regional Bureau Bangkok exploring the use of social protection to enhance WFP’s work on improving food...

This synthesis report presents an updated analysis of the social protection landscape in Asia and the Pacific and identifies priorities for enhancing both food security and nutrition and improving responses to risks...

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

This report contains an analysis of food prices and commodity prices in Sri Lanka in April 2022, including price trends, inflation and key issues within the current economic...

MAIN FINDINGS Type of humanitarian assistance intervention: Unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) are the most common type of humanitarian assistance intervention, followed by food transfers...

Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters...

Acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 20 countries during the outlook period from June to September 2022. Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain...