Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 🇺🇳🌾🍛 The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency working towards
#ZeroHunger
.
1️⃣ year of brutal conflict in
#Sudan
has brought the country to its knees.
Now, it's impact on the region risks triggering the world's largest hunger crisis.
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Conflict is driving displacement & hunger to record levels in eastern DRC. GBV is rampant. Humanitarian needs outstrip resources, forcing dire choices on women and girls.
@iascc
is calling on the world’s leaders to step up. The people of DRC deserve better.
#𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 | Intensifying clashes in 𝗘𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 are hindering efforts to deliver vital food assistance.
The situation is exacerbating critical humanitarian needs in
#Darfur
, where at least 1.7 million people are already experiencing emergency levels of hunger.
WFP Innovation Day brought together global innovators to drive forward progress and partnership for innovation.
At WFP Innovation Day, we learned 4 steps that any organization can follow to integrate more innovation into its work culture.
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Over the last decade, the number of refugees in
#Uganda
has increased 4X as people seek safety amid conflicts and crises.
WFP supports refugees like Patience with immediate food assistance and pathways to self-reliance.
Peace 🕊️ and food security 🌽 go hand-in-hand.
I was just in Dar’a Al-Balad
#Syria
, where many people told me
@WFP
's assistance was a lifeline and a source of hope - now for many it's gone. A lack of funds forced WFP to reduce assistance from 6m to 3m to 1m people across Syria. We urgently need funds to restore the lifeline.
No child should go to school hungry.
In
#Afghanistan
, WFP reaches over 700,000 girls and boys every morning with highly nutritious snacks that help them stay active and learn better.
📍FLOODS IN EASTERN AFRICA
🔺So far, WFP plans to reach 214,000 people with food and nutrition support
🔺WFP cash grants are ensuring families in
#Somalia
can act before flooding occurs
🔺WFP is working with governments and providing critical logistics services
WFP works to promote STRONGER and more INCLUSIVE food systems by:
🟢Investing locally
🟢Supporting smallholder harvest management
🟢And bolstering community resilience to shocks
We cannot reach
#ZeroHunger
without strong
#FoodSystems
🚜🌱👩🌾🥦🚚🛒🥗
After months of restricted access to northern
#Gaza
,
@WFP
reached Beit Hanoun, to set up storage space for aid.
WFP Supply Chain ensures that lifesaving assistance reaches those in need around the clock, reversing months of starvation.
📣 Access needs to be sustained.
🍍✨ From its collection on the farm, to its packaging and shipping to school, follow this pineapple's journey ⤵️
The WFP-supported school meals programme in
#Guatemala
connects farmers to opportunities while providing children with locally-sourced good nutrition.
#FoodSystems
WFP teams are on the ground supporting communities around the world to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster.
Because a world without hunger is a dream we all share.
#ZeroHunger
From the heart of an
@UNRWA
school in central
#Gaza
, where children & their families shelter from the raging war.
This is what the humanitarian community, when given access, can do for the people of
#Gaza
.
This has to be sustained.
@WFP
@WCKitchen
@IHHen
Every step from farm to fork makes up our
#FoodSystems
. Today, these systems are failing to deliver food security, good nutrition and equitable livelihoods for millions of people.
🔁 We need stronger, more resilient & inclusive food systems 🔁
Once again,
#ClimateChange
is striking the Greater
#HornOfAfrica
. Heavy rainfall and flooding are threatening the region.
Working with governments,
@WFP
is already deploying food assistance and logistics support in
#Burundi
&
#Kenya
.
While we must meet today’s urgent humanitarian needs, the global community can't overlook the need to empower individuals and communities to achieve their own food security.
It is time to transform our
#FoodSystems
- for people, for the planet, and for our future. 👏
📍In 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮,
🔵We need to get volumes up,
🔵We need consistency,
🔵We need to make this more predictable and sustainable.
"Yes, there has been an uptick in terms of the assistance we are able to bring to the strip but this is far from enough," says WFP's
@CarlSkau
.
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Learn how social protection can help improve diet, quality &
#nutrition
status of groups in vulnerable situations
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With some improvement in the movement of convoys into
#Gaza
, WFP is working to get desperately needed food to more than 1 million people and get collapsed food systems up and running again.
Gazans need a sustained and consistent flow of nutritious food, every day, every week.
Chitra is planning big things for her 🐣🥒 business in
#Nepal
.
Where women rely largely on subsistence farming to get by,
@WFP_Nepal
supports access to the tools and knowledge they need to turn their labour into livelihoods. 💪✨