News releases | World Food Programme
ACCRA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a £500,000 (US$ 628,000) contribution from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support a food fortification programme targeting smallholder farmers, rice millers, and school children in Ghana. School feeding Ghana. 18 September 2024.
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Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 | World Food Programme
Apr 23, 2024 · The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 confirms the enormity of the challenge of achieving the goal of ending hunger by 2030. In 2023, nearly 282 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population in 59 countries/territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) …
Jul 24, 2024 · Reports Nutrition Rome-based agencies. The 2024 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report presents updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. The report also looks at ways in which governments can ...
World Food Programme: Nobel Peace Prize lecture
Dec 10, 2021 · The good news is that we have proven systems in place at the World Food Programme to feed them. Last year we reached 115 million children, women and men and we averted famine. But the bad news now is with COVID recycling, with devastating ripple effects, we are over US$6 billion short of the funds we need to reach everyone who is knocking on ...
India | World Food Programme
Transforming the targeted public distribution system. WFP is working to improve the efficiency, accountability and transparency of India’s own subsidized food distribution system, which brings supplies of wheat, rice, sugar and kerosene oil to around 800 million poor people across the country. WFP ensures that food reaches those who need it ...
Who we are | World Food Programme
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COVID-19 will double number of people facing food crises unless …
Apr 21, 2020 · Full 2020 Global Report on Food Crises available here. # # # The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies, building prosperity and supporting a sustainable future for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. Follow us on Twitter @wfp ...
World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador, The Weeknd, to …
Apr 29, 2024 · As young people search for ways to help Gazans, The Weeknd calls on fans to join him in supporting WFP’s humanitarian efforts Washington, DC (April 29, 2024)—United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador and multi-platinum global recording artist Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye is allocating another $2 million from his XO Humanitarian Fund toward WFP’s humanitarian response ...
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