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The Bhutan Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan (2020–2025) seeks to improve the nutritional status of schoolchildren and adolescents, including those in monastic institutions, through improved nutrition knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices.

SANTIAGO, Chile. The new United Nations report Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022 finds that 22.5% of the Latin America and the Caribbean population cannot afford a healthy diet. In the Caribbean this figure reaches 52%; in Mesoamerica, 27.8%; and in South America, 18.4%. The publication reports that 131.3 million people in the region could not afford a healthy diet in 2020.

“I want to work in finance and ensure that my family has a good life,” says 14-year-old Niyibizi, a student at a primary school in Muyinga province in northern Burundi. Niyibizi is one of over 500,000 children in more than 700 schools who receive daily school meals which include rice, maize flour, beans, and leafy greens through what is called homegrown school feeding. This is a form of

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 action points to achieve peace and prosperity agreed by the United Nations Member States in 2015. WFP's main focus is SDG 2: Zero Hunger.

The complementarity of social protection and disaster risk management (DRM) is increasingly acknowledged by ASEAN.

Bhutan is currently experiencing a transition in nutrition and food consumption patterns among its populations, especially school children and adolescents. WFP partners with the Ministry of Education is currently in the process of developing a social behaviour change strategy for nutrition in Bhutan

Vulnerable populations in urban areas globally have been among the worst hit by the global COVID-19 crisis. In South and South-East Asia, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased levels of vulnerability and food insecurity in cities through disruptions to food supply chains, increased food prices and loss of income.

Stressing that food is a basic human right, in his opening remarks, QU Dongyu the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), described this year’s World Food Day theme “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future” as a timely reminder that all people have the right to adequate foods.

Cambodia has gone through a ravishing development over the last 30 years. GDP has grown significantly with an average annual growth of over 7 percent a year. The economic development has meant that Cambodia went from being one of the world’s poorest countries to achieving lower-middle income status in 2014. Unfortunately, nutrition indicators did not follow this positive trend.