In January 2016, WFP Nigeria started remote phone-based data collection and food security monitoring using the mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) approach to conduct household surveys and key informant/trader surveys.
In 2014 WFP partnered with a local government to prevent and reduce anemia in children between the ages of two and five years. Seven months after the start of the programme, blood samples showed that iron deficiency in targeted children was halved in 61,000 children; from 25.5 percent to 11.2 percent.
Four UN agencies (FAO,UNICEF,WHO, WFP) have teamed up regionally to analyse the impact of global hunger data for the battle against undernutrition in the Asia and Pacific region. The 2018 report shows that progress is stalling in the region that is home to the highest number of undernourished in the world.
In Lao PDR, 44 percent of children under 5 years of age are stunted as a result of a poor diet, often lacking in essential micronutrients, fats and proteins as well as experiencing recurrent illness.
This assessment, published jointly by WFP and the UK Met Office, outlines how climate risks impact household food security and livelihoods in Sudan. The aim of this assessment is to inform climate change adaptation policies and programs.
Based on data from buyers in 17 countries, this paper confirms that in the majority of P4P pilot countries, in addition to the local procurement of WFP, there are private and public markets for the quality crops produced by smallholder farmers. More research is recommended to fully understand buyers' quality and premium requirements and therefore the level of demand in each country.
Recent advances in Earth Observation (EO)-related technologies and products have made data increasingly more accessible and enables the development of near real-time flood monitoring applications. WFP have commissioned this report by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to explore how it can take advantage of the technologies for flood early warning and monitoring.
The main focus of this assessment was to estimate and update the food security situation in districts within the Savanna Agro-ecological Zone of the country where the operations of WFP are concentrated. Data was collected from 6,118 households across 49 districts in five regions between February and early March 2016.