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The global food crisis threatens to create devastating reversals in the health and wellbeing of children in Western Africa. By improving household food security, reducing protection risks for children by maintaining them in schools, and strengthening local food systems, WFP school feeding could be key to mitigating the impact of the global food crisis on the region.

Food fortification of commonly eaten foods is usually done through large-scale food production systems. However, in many LMIC most people, including the poorest and most at risk of malnutrition, buy their wheat flour from small-scale mills. In Pakistan there are 70,000 small-scale mills, which produce 0.5 to 2 metric tonnes per day and sell directly to local households.

The potential environmental and social risks for project activities are identified as: Potential exclusion of disadvantaged or vulnerable households; Potential exclusion of ethnic minorities due to access challenges or language barriers; Risks to project workers (including health and safety risks, security risks, child labor or forced labor, COVID-19 risks, and sexual exploitation and ab

In the face of this global crisis, WFP and UNICEF are working together to track, through an online map, this global cohort of school children, and helping national governments to find ways to support them during the pandemic.

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 World Food Programme (WFP) has long enlisted the voluntary services and support of prominent figures as Goodwill Ambassadors, Advocates and High-Level Supporters to help bring attention to global hunger.

The evaluation covered all processes and activities related to the McGovern-Dole project from its start-up in 2018 to the time of data collection in March 2023. Data collection took place from February 25th to March 24th, 2023.  The evaluation focused on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability evaluation criteria.

Watch the Nobel lecture here (starting at 23:00 mins)   On April 10th, 1815, 6,000 miles away from here, on an island in Indonesia, a volcano erupted. It sent a massive plume of ash into the air that eventually encircled the globe.

As climate change increases the probability of climate-related disasters, people living in vulnerable areas and whose livelihoods are dependent on the weather grow at risk. For women, this risk increases as climate-related disasters can exacerbate pre-existing inequalities.

The longest drought in the Horn of Africa’s recorded history has left 4.4 million people in Kenya facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Almost 1.5 million young children and women are acutely malnourished and nearly 3 million livestock have perished. “The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over.