"HUNGER"

The Government of the Netherlands dramatically increases its financial commitment to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development to help the agency support small-scale farmers adapt to climate change. IFAD

Six months after Somalia emerged from a historic drought that pushed the country to the brink of widespread famine, another climate shock has struck as heavy rains and floods batter several areas of the country. OCHA

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) delivered desperately needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza during the initial pause in fighting but reiterated that the supplies it was able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger seen by staff in the UN shelters and communities. WFP

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) express grave concern over the humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government uproots over 450,000 people from their homes. UNHCR

Thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan are crossing back into Afghanistan after the Government of Pakistan’s announcement that all undocumented Afghans must leave the country by 1 November. WFP

Chad is host to more than one million refugees - one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. The recent conflict in neighbouring Sudan has driven hundreds of thousands more across the border. WFP

Today marks the admission of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) bonds on the LSE’s Sustainable Bond Market and the first time a United Nations Fund and specialized agency has listed its sustainable bond on the LSE market since the World Bank Group. IFAD

Transforming the way we produce, distribute and consume food offers a unique opportunity to curb greenhouse emissions, but investments are urgent to scale up the solutions available, says Kaveh Zahedi, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations climate division, ahead of the most important climate summit of the year, the forthcoming 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28). FAO

A World Food Program spokesperson said that nearly the entire population of Gaza now needs food assistance. UNIFEED

With only ten percent of necessary food supplies entering Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, people now face a massive food gap and widespread hunger as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. WFP