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The Global Alliance aims to better align domestic and international support to help countries build and implement programmes and policy instruments that reduce hunger and poverty.WFP was invited by the Brazilian G20 Presidency to take part in the G20 Task Force which created the founding documents of the Global Alliance.

Timor-Leste is facing high acute food insecurity due to inflated food costs, reduced purchasing  power and the persistent impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and successive climate shocks. Every day households are finding it increasingly difficult to afford nutritious meals.

Nutrition is fundamental for sustainable development: it is the fuel that empowers children to learn, adults to work, and communities to thrive. In humanitarian emergencies, nutrition is the difference between life and death.

Moayad Hameidi died shortly after being transferred to hospital. Hameidi had recently arrived in Yemen to assume his new role as the head of WFP’s office in Taiz.

As part of a strategic partnership with WFP, UNDCF will provide a local currency loan to the food services company Nilus, that will catalyse more than 2X in additional impact-aligned capital from private investors.

Led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the two-day high-level conference is entitled, “Investing in homegrown school meals to strengthen human capital, women's economic empowerment and contribute to economic development”.

As the chilly winter sun rises, their red cheeks burned by the frozen air, Hamida and her friends skip merrily on the way to school against the majestic backdrop of mountains and a vast lake – the Nurek reservoir. The dawn mist slowly clears in the village of Chashma, perched high up a valley in southeast Tajikistan, as the laughter and bickering of children is heard in the schoolyard.&nbsp

It is midday in Halbul, in northern South Sudan, and farmer Nyandeng Noon Agany is visibly exhausted as she walks home in the harsh dry season heat, after spending hours harvesting rice.

Bhutan is currently experiencing a transition in nutrition and food consumption patterns, especially among schoolchildren and adolescents. One in three adolescent girls are anaemic and one in ten schoolchildren are overweight, a problem that is rapidly increasing.

Social protection systems are vital for supporting vulnerable populations but often overlook their nutritional needs, missing opportunities to advance SDG 2 amid rising hunger since 2015. Amid such challenges, the Mind the Gap report explores the role of social protection systems in addressing affordability gaps of nutritious diets, structured around the FNG analytical approach.