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Food assistance: cash and in-kind

Since the late 2000s, a strategic rethink has seen the World Food Programme (WFP) shift from the concept of food aid to that of food assistance.

News release | 13 February 2024

WFP, Ministry of Education and World Bank unveil preliminary results of impact evaluation for heathy school meals in Jordan

The evaluation comprised two main components. The first examines whether children receiving the healthy meals experience greater benefits than those receiving fortified date bars.

News release | 18 September 2024

100 days of detention: Regional Directors of UN agencies and INGOs call for immediate release of arbitrarily detained staff

Today marks 100 days since the arbitrary detention by de facto authorities in Sana’a of more than 50 personnel from the UN, international and national NGOs, civil society, and diplomatic missions. In addition, four UN staff members have been detained since 2021 and 2023.

News release | 22 October 2024

Senegal and WFP launch fortified rice programme to enhance school meals and boost nutrition

Financially supported by DSM-FIRMENICH - a Swiss-Dutch company specialized in nutrition - the rice fortification initiative targets an initial 236 primary schools supported by WFP in Senegal including 101 schools in the Department of Matam.

News release | 02 February 2024

WFP calls for urgent, safe access to feed millions in Sudan as fighting rages across the country

The situation in Sudan is dire.

Story | 04 December 2023

Zambia cooks up solutions to hunger and climate change

Andrew Zimmern ducked into a greenhouse at Gwembe Primary School in southern Zambia to check out the next harvest.

Publication | 02 April 2024

March 2024 – Informing national school feeding and nutrition policies and strategies in Bhutan

Bhutanese children and the wider public are experiencing the triple burden of malnutrition - undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies.

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Climate risk management, insurance and financing

The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to link its governments and partners’ social protection and disaster risk reduction programmes with a more comprehensive set of innovative tools including disaster risk management, risk transfer, and financial inclusion.

Story | 01 August 2024

Famine in Sudan: WFP calls for unfettered access to hunger hotspots to save lives

Sudan is sliding into catastrophe, with famine conditions recorded in the Zamzam camp for displaced people near the conflict-riven town of El Fasher in North Darfur.

News release | 01 November 2024

WFP calls for cash to frontload South Sudan operations amid warnings of rising hunger

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.