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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nicaragua have signed a financial agreement to boost sustainable agricultural production in the Dry Corridor, the area of the country most affected by droughts and climate change.

Over a hundred thousand families in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria have been reached so-far with food and nutrition support in a US$20 million (£16.1m) multi-year joint project funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

On 8 March 2016, a boy lifts the plastic sheeting off his makeshift tent to look out.

UNICEF Ambassador Tom Hiddleston meets brothers Buom, 12 (right) and Jal, 9, who have been separated from their mother since the conflict began in 2013, at the Protection of Civilians camp in Bentiu, South Sudan, on 25 November 2016.

These children became homeless in late March 2016 when Israeli authorities destroyed 53 structures in the Palestinian community of Khirbet Tana, located in Area C of the occupied West Bank.

On 20 November 2016, a group of children push a cart trying to sell some radish in Al-Sha’ar neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. Food and other basic commodities are running out at one of East Aleppo’s once busiest markets.

In Laos, WFP provides school meals to 1,500 schools contributing to the government’s aims to provide good nutrition, promote cognitive and physical development, and improve the health of school children.

WHO delivers trauma medicines and supplies to reinforce trauma care services in areas of east Mosul, Iraq.

Refugee children living in Chad.

In Morroco, people wait to board the tram providing service between Rabat and Salé cities.