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...
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WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food insecure populations. In 2021, WFP protected over 2.7 million people in 19 countries with climate...
Levels of hunger in 2021 remain alarmingly high, with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according...
WFP is a leader in promoting sovereign insurance products that can offer rapid finance to affected communities in the event of major disaster. By connecting climate and disaster risk financing...
WFP has extensive experience integrating climate risk insurance solutions as an element of financial and social protection. This factsheet provides a summary of the evidence on how WFP-supported microinsurance...
While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such...
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is WFP’s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource...
Food security deteriorated significantly in 2019 as the drought, Cyclone Idai, and a worsening macroeconomic environment magnified structural deficiencies. Food security remains an issue despite better...
The likely effects of climate change are not fully consistent between each of Zimbabwe’s ten provinces or the crops assessed, however, several general observations can...
The second half of 2020 saw the emergence of a moderate to strong La Niña event that is causing extreme weather in many parts of the world. The meteorological phenomenon that affects temperatures...