WFP is expanding operations to reach 4.6 million people in Ethiopia with emergency food assistance, in response to the government's urgent appeal for food and nutrition assistance to avoid hunger-related deaths in coming months.

Much of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis – the merciless storm that struck Myanmar two months ago – is still visible. Large portions of the country's cultivable land and vital crops have been flooded and rendered useless by the catastrophic tidal surge that drove inland from the Indian Ocean.

Spanish translation of commentary from the March 2008 IFPRI Forum. Link is to PDF file, size 73K.

Spanish translation of commentary from the March 2008 IFPRI Forum. Link is to PDF file, size 73K.

WFP is rapidly expanding operations in Haiti, reaching more hungry people thanks to a US$23 million allocation from funds raised through the organisation's high food price appeal.

Facts, figures and the lastest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

IFPRI proposes a new global institutional arrangement that would consist of a minimum physical grain reserve for humanitarian assistance and a virtual reserve and intervention mechanism to calm markets under speculative situations, backed up by a financial fund.

IFPRI proposes a new global institutional arrangement that would consist of a minimum physical grain reserve for humanitarian assistance and a virtual reserve and intervention mechanism to calm markets under speculative situations, backed up by a financial fund.

Thanks to a fast response by donors, the humanitarian air service which flies aid workers to critical areas in Sudan will continue running until the end of September.

The WFP said that the Ugandan driver of a WFP-contracted truck was killed in an ambush in southern Sudan, bringing to five the number of WFP-contracted drivers or their assistants killed in attacks in South Sudan this year.