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A woman holds a small child, while others who have fled their homes amid the ongoing refugee and migrant crisis stand behind her, on a rainy day near the town of Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece.

Some countries are developing laws on food donations and ways to minimize food losses and waste.

People are less likely to sell assets, go into debt or resort to skipping meals when their lives are disrupted by the effects of climate change, if they have received a simple package of training and cash grants, a new study has shown.

The World Food Programme (WFP) received this month a generous donation of US$500,000 from the People’s Republic of China to support WFP to provide food assistance for some 15,700 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in January.

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) with Peter Thomson, President of the General Assembly, at the high-level dialogue on building sustainable peace for all.

On 23 January, students go to class at a school in eastern Mosul. Schools are starting to re-open as part of the Ninewa Directorate of Education’s efforts to bring back regular classroom learning to children in the city.

United Nations agencies and NGO partners on January 24, appealed for US$4.63 billion in new funding to continue vital work in addressing the growing needs of refugees from Syria and communities hosting them in neighbouring countries.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €700,000 contribution from the Government of Spain to support the health and nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women in warn-torn Syria on Jan 23.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of USD 20 million from the Government of the United States of America for emergency food assistance for some 550,000 returnees and displaced people in Afghanistan. This emergency operation has already been running for five months and WFP has reached 200,000 people so far.