From hurricanes pounding islands to drought destroying crops across Central America, and erratic rain patterns affecting the livelihoods of indigenous communities living on Andean slopes, climate-related challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean are as diverse as are the region’s landscapes. Climate change is exacerbating many of these, with higher temperatures, delayed rainy seasons, rainfall irregularity, and increasingly frequent and extreme weather events. The is implementing an array of measures to face up to the region’s challenges.
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Eating Insects and Praying for Rain
How the World Food Programme — and make a Christmas feast.
How can you change the world with just US $ 0.50? With a tap on your smartphone you can "share the meal" with a child in need. It costs only US $ 0.50 to feed one child for a day.
Annual Children’s Design Competition
Find out , from this interview with Carole Manceau (WFP’s packaging expert).
5 Climate-Driven Disasters in 2019 and how WFP Responded
In his role as , Gianluigi Buffon will have the opportunity to travel to some of the 83 countries where WFP helps communities rebuild shattered lives and livelihoods.Â
Enrica Porcari, head of the Technology division of (WFP), reflects on how the private sector and tech community must help ensure the 2030 Development Agenda stays on track in an age of receding multilateralism.