World Food Programme

🌍 Three shipping routes. Global consequences. 🔴 Conflict is disrupting some of the world's most important trade routes for food, fuel and fertilizer, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea and Black Sea. The consequences are being felt far beyond the front lines: higher food prices, rising shipping costs, more expensive humanitarian operations, and greater risks of hunger for vulnerable communities. Read more to learn what's at stake👇

📊 What does it take to end hunger? Without understanding where hunger is growing, who is most affected, and why, humanitarian responses can miss the mark. 🔵 At WFP, food security analysis brings together: 📈 Food prices and market trends 🏠 Household surveys and community data 🛰️ Satellite imagery and forecasting 🤝 Collaboration with governments and partners This evidence helps turn complex information into clear decisions — ensuring assistance reaches the right people, at the right time, in the right place. From conflict‑affected areas to communities facing weather extremes, WFP's role is the same: to bridge evidence and action. WFP’s Moctar Aboubacar explains why evidence isn't optional — it's essential 👇

📍When roads are blocked, WFP finds another way. For the first time in an emergency operation in #Nepal, WFP is deploying humanitarian cargo drones to carry food to communities cut off by devastating floods. After the 2015 earthquake, WFP reached remote mountain communities using yaks, mules and porters carrying food for days. Today, innovation allows us to cover that last mile in minutes.

🔵 Preparedness doesn't start when an emergency happens. It starts long before. WFP operates the world's largest humanitarian fleet of SHERPs, specialized amphibious vehicles designed for extreme conditions. But the vehicles are only part of the story. Training skilled operators is essential to ensure teams are ready to deploy safely and effectively wherever they are needed. Hear from trainees about the experience of becoming a SHERP operator 👇

In the mountains of Nepal, humanitarian cargo drones are helping deliver food assistance across the last mile. Recent flash floods damaged roads and bridges, leaving many communities cut off from support. To help reach isolated areas, WFP is testing humanitarian cargo drones in Rasuwa district in northern Nepal, complementing road and helicopter deliveries. Trucks and helicopters carry food as far as roads and conditions allow. Beyond that, humanitarian cargo drones help cover the final stretch, serving as an aerial bridge to communities isolated by disasters. By combining trucks, helicopters and humanitarian drone technology, WFP is expanding the reach of its flood response and finding new ways to reach families in remote locations.

📍 #Haiti: In communities already facing hunger and instability, extreme weather events can wipe out local food sources. WFP is working alongside the Government and communities to strengthen local food systems — improving infrastructure and helping families produce and access the food they need. Hear from WFP's Matthew Hollingworth👇

🌍 How can a conflict thousands of miles away affect what's on our plates? Food, fuel and fertilizer move across oceans and borders before reaching farms, markets and families. When major shipping routes are disrupted, the effects can be felt worldwide. Today, three critical food corridors are under pressure: the Strait of Hormuz, Bab‑el‑Mandeb, and the Black Sea. Together, they play a vital role in moving energy, food and agricultural inputs around the world. When these routes are disrupted, costs rise, supplies are delayed and food can become more expensive. The impact is felt most acutely in countries already facing conflict, displacement and climate shocks. 🔵 Keeping food moving is essential to global food security and to ensuring people facing hunger receive the assistance they need. WFP's Susanna Sandström tells us how global supply chains, food prices and hunger are connected 👇

🌍 Three shipping routes. Global consequences. The Strait of Hormuz, Bab‑el‑Mandeb and the Black Sea are critical corridors for food, fuel and fertilizer. When conflict disrupts these routes, supply chains slow down, prices rise and food security comes under pressure — especially in countries already struggling with hunger. What's happening on these trade routes today could shape tomorrow's food crisis. Swipe to learn how disruptions thousands of miles away can affect food systems around the world 👇

💡 Building resilient food systems starts with strengthening farmers and supply chains. For WFP in Zambia, this work is focused on helping farmers strengthen their capacity and build more resilient sorghum value chains, contributing to food systems that can better withstand shocks and meet the needs of the most vulnerable. Through WFP's partnership with AB InBev and the AB InBev Foundation, and with the support of AB InBev subsidiaries like Zambian Breweries Plc, we are working across the continent — from Zambia to Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania — to help smallholder farmers build more resilient, inclusive and sustainable livelihoods and supply chains. Since 2023, the partnership has helped nearly 10,000 smallholder farmers strengthen their skills in areas including post‑harvest loss management, procurement practices and market access, creating greater opportunities to connect farmers to markets and reduce losses along the way. Our shared vision is clear: resilience, equity and sustainability must be intentionally designed into supply chains if we are to transform food systems, both locally and globally. Learn more about the partnership and see our work in Zambia 👇