This landmark collaboration brings together the expertise and resources of two leading institutions to address the complex food security, nutrition and resilience challenges faced by millions of people, and will inform and guide the work of the WFP.
“By joining forces with J-PAL and MIT, we are harnessing the power of innovation and knowledge to tackle the pressing challenges of resilience syst
Hundreds of truckloads of World Food Programme assistance are speeding this month to the hungriest parts of Sudan, as part of a massively scaled-up response after famine was confirmed at a camp for displaced people in the country’s Darfur region.Targeting an initial 3 million people this month, the WFP food-and-cash support aims to prevent more people from falling into catastrophic hunger, o
Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, has recently graduated to low-middle-income country status. Despite recent economic growth, poverty rates stand at 79 percent, with 42 percent of the population living in extreme poverty.
On a cold and gloomy day in Veselianka village, in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, a few dozen people gather at a food distribution point where the World Food Programme (WFP) provides monthly food assistance.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s conflict-ravaged northeast, 27-year-old Florence Mapendo faces an agonizing daily choice: hunger or violence.
“Finding food is the hardest part,” she says of the risk-filled quest to ensure her four children can eat at the Bweremana camp for conflict-displaced people, in DRC’s North Kivu province.
In this stunningly beautiful but deadly reg
In Latin America and the Caribbean, social protection programmes, including school-based programmes, represent a powerful entry point for transformative programming. Across the region, national school feeding programmes reach 85 million people. Formative research has been essential in informing these programmes.
The Stampriet project, supported by the Government of Namibia and Republic of Brazil, has yielded remarkable outcomes since its establishment. The school now produces approximately 5 000 chicken eggs monthly, a variety of nutritious vegetables and fully funds the salaries of two gardeners from the sale of fresh produce and poultry products.
“It’s precisely in emergency contexts, where it is most crucial, that breastfeeding can be most challenging,” says Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as the organization marks World Breastfeeding Week.
“Women may be constantly on the move, on physically exhausting journeys. Conditions may be overcrowded, or traumatic.
The centre, designed by internationally renowned architect Marina Tabassum, uses an innovative bamboo structure and integrates sustainable design elements, including passive cooling, energy efficient design and the use of renewable materials.