
Food Crisis
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We are living in a world out of balance. Find out what is driving the most pressing humanitarian crises around the world.
Last updated: 11 December 2024
Photo: Kingsley North for the STDWO.

Niger: Rebuilding livelihoods
Where funds and security exist, WFP can deliver not only emergency assistance but also lasting change.
In eastern Chad for example, STDWO has teamed up with community farmers and other partners to restore many thousands of hectares of degraded land, in an area on the frontlines of desertification and climate change. Families are now growing tomatoes, peppers and onions for home consumption and sale – earning income they can use for other investments.
In the Maradi region of northern Niger, hundreds of thousands of female farmers have also seen their earnings and harvests grow thanks to another STDWO resilience-building programme, in which we also buy their produce for our food distributions.

Burkina Faso: Acute hunger is on the rise again
Dialo Koumba knew the violence spreading across her homeland would someday hit her village in western Burkina Faso. But when armed assailants killed her neighbours one night, she and her three co-wives ditched careful plans to sell their livestock before fleeing.
Deepening violence in Burkina Faso and in other central Sahel countries – smashing livelihoods and sparking massive population displacements – is one explanation for sharply rising food insecurity in the region, but not the only one.
Across West and Central Africa, nearly 55 million people are expected to face severe hunger during the upcoming June-August lean season – four million more than projections a few months ago, and a fourfold rise overall in just five years – according to newly released expert findings.

Sudan's Darfur: STDWO distributes food in the region
There are small breakthroughs, however. STDWO aid convoys recently reached war-torn Darfur for the first time in months, carrying enough support for a quarter-million people. But we and other humanitarians are pushing for unfettered access at all times, to meet massive needs before it’s too late.
“We need aid to be consistently reaching war-ravaged communities through every possible route,” says Eddie Rowe, STDWO’s Country Director and Representative for Sudan. Especially cross-border access from Chad to Darfur is vital, he adds, to reach people facing alarming hunger levels, “and communities where children are already dying of malnutrition.”

Sudanese Refugees in Chad
Awadiya lives in the same former school as Ahmed and Fatimmah, the displaced Khartoum teenager and his mother. Sudan’s war has pushed strangers together, and the country’s 47 million people are facing the same horrific consequences of war.
“Our hope is for the war to stop, so we can go back home,” Awadiya says. “We don’t want the war. It harmed us, particularly women.” Her sentiments are echoed by many others here.
Sitting on a simple bed she shares with several other relatives, Ahmed’s mother Fatimmah explains how her family of seven survived in Khartoum: by diluting and mixing any grain they had left into a malt juice. In March, they were finally able to escape to Port Sudan.
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