The World Food Programme (WFP) contributes to reducing extreme poverty and all forms of malnutrition in the poorest communities through cash distributions as part of the Agriculture for Nutrition (AFN) project in the Northern provinces of Lao PDR.
This case study presents insights and lessons learnt from India’s successful ‘pilot-to-scale’ approach for rice fortification in order to address micronutrient deficiencies
The research provides strategic insights to understand how gender norms affected food distribution within households and what could be recommended to the Government to address this issue. The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on access to food was also examined.
Every day, poor and vulnerable families must make difficult decisions on how to share the food among the members of their households. This information note summarizes results of intra-household behaviour/patterns of food distribution and consumption and its association with individual food security and nutrition.
Every day, poor and vulnerable families must make difficult decisions on how to share the food among the members of their households. This information note summarizes results of household access to food-based safety nets and the effect of COVID-19 on intra-household access to food.
Building community resilience and people’s livelihoods is crucial to end the vicious cycle of poverty and vulnerability in Syria. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) - jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – completed the rehabilitation of Sector 5 irrigation system in Deir-ez-Zor, northeast Syria. Learn what that meant for the communities in terms of resilience and food security.
School Nutrition Education Material for Teachers, Parents, and School-Aged Children is a set of nutrition education materials developed by the World Food Programme with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology and UNICEF
UNHAS is a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations. This brief provides an overview of their operations in Cameroon.
The 2022 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report presents updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support to agriculture to reduce the cost of healthy diets, mindful of the limited public resources available in many parts of the world.
As global levels of hunger rise to record highs, WFP and the European Union continue to work closely together. This report details our partnership in 2021.
Over 15 million people are now acutely food insecure across the Horn of Africa because of drought, up from 12-13 million at the beginning of the year. Should the ongoing rains fail and increased relief assistance not take place, this number of acutely food insecure could rise to 20 million people by the end of the year.
This report outlines WFP’s response to support the increased humanitarian needs across this region.