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With this contribution, WFP will provide nutritious, safe, and diverse meals to pre and primary school children in 115 schools from 2024 to 2028, using locally produced foods to be sourced from 8,000 smallholder farmers.

The contribution, provided through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), comes at a critical time in Zimbabwe.

Their faces smeared with a traditional mussiro mask to enhance their skin, the women stoop to pluck shellfish from the mudflats of Ibo Island, off northern Mozambique.

With the FCDO funding, WFP will strengthen the capacity of millers to invest in rice fortification in Ghana.

Extreme weather caused by climate change is affecting farmers’ livelihoods in Rwanda. The Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities Project (SZHC) aims to improve food security, reduce poverty levels among vulnerable populations, and increase living standards in Rwanda’s poorest districts by increasing access to livelihood assets.

1 in 3 Afghans – 14 million people – are hungry today while 2 million children are malnourished. With drought, pandemic, and conflict, the food security situation will continue to worsen; and a great tide of hunger is soon arriving.

In Zimbabwe, erratic weather cause by climate change and the economic meltdown, have pushed half the population into hunger and poverty, in Mwenezi district in the south of the country, farmers have struggled to meet their basic needs.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is stockpiling 310 metric tons of food at the Gaza border ready for dispatch to people in desperate need – as soon as humanitarian access is granted.   WFP’s supplies in Al Arish, Egypt, could feed 244,000 people for a week if unhindered access and safe passage were provided to our teams on the ground.

Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the agreement was signed in Islamabad between Rathi Palakrishnan, WFP Country Director a.i in Pakistan and Rehmat Dashti, Project Director, P&D Department of the Government of Balochistan. “I am confident that the partnership between the Government of Balochistan and WFP will help us achieve our joint nutrition targets.

This publication provides an overview of the 2023 South-South and Triangular Cooperation Innovation Challenge, details about its four winners and way forward.