Climate change: a humanitarian challenge for the 21st Century

This paper gives an insight into the World Food Programme's work in addressing weather-related hunger by helping communities prepare for and recover from major climate- and weather-related natural disasters, especially those that are already vulnerable and suffering from hunger, undernutrition and food insecurity. It describes actions that can be taken now to help affected communities adapt to increased flooding, frequent droughts, intense tropical storms and desertification and illustrates WFP's services with two case studies in Ethiopia and El Salvador.