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Energy for food security

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Energy for food security

Most of the food that the World Food Programme (WFP) distributes to people-in-need requires cooking, while drinking water often needs to be disinfected by boiling. Not only is energy necessary to consume food but also to produce, process, preserve and transport it, making it key to achieving Zero Hunger.

WFP Lebanon 2021 Annual Country Report Highlights

Publication | 31 March 2022

WFP Lebanon 2021 Annual Country Report Highlights

In 2021, WFP expanded its assistance to support one in three people living in Lebanon to put food on the table and make ends meet in a time of severe crisis. WFP adapted its response in a complex, changing environment to take-home rations and ATM redemption in local currency or USD, increased transfer values of cash assistance, and capacity strengthening for national institutions.

News release | 30 May 2022

Funding from the European Union helps WFP provide sustained and life-saving food assistance in Burkina Faso

The EU’s contribution, received through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), is helping WFP avoid an interruption in its operations providing vital food assistance to populations affected by food insecurity in isolated or hard-to-reach areas of the country. With frequent reports of people fleeing their villages to escape violence, humanitarian needs i
Centre of Excellence in China

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Centre of Excellence in China

Established in 2016, the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence in China aims to leverage China’s successful experience in reducing poverty and hunger.  Before 2015, China met its Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger, and in so doing it reduced the number of hungry people globally by two thirds.

News release | 21 May 2024

Despite modest improvements, three million people in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean still face food insecurity – new study

The Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey, carried out jointly by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) found that 43 percent of the population - or three million people - are estimated to be food insecure in 22 countries and territories. These Small Island Developing States (SIDS) continue to grapple with high costs of food and inputs for prod

News release | 06 January 2021

Switzerland helps WFP roll out critical assistance to vulnerable families in Gaza

The contribution, from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), will help WFP provide cash-based assistance to around 1,150 non-refugee families living across Gaza until 2022. Under the scheme named Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance programme, each family receives a monthly credit on a magnetic card affording them the choice to spend it on the basic commodities they need the most at
Malawi: A boot camp maps the way for climate resilience amid hunger in southern Africa

Story | 08 January 2024

Malawi: A boot camp maps the way for climate resilience amid hunger in southern Africa

A group of women armed with empty juice cartons, plastic bottles, stones, sticks and weeds draw a giant map in the sand of their village, Chituwi, in Malawi's Chikwawa district.  They meticulously mark roads, schools, houses, bridges, orchards, crops, trees, cemeteries and all the wells from which they fetch water. Nearby, a group of men attempt a similar feat, yet their map pales i

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