Editing World Food Programme (section)

==Activities==

===Emergencies===
[[File:WFP truck. Blokha.jpg|thumb|WFP truck in Dnipro, Ukraine, during Russian invasion in Ukraine.]]
About two-thirds of WFP life-saving food assistance goes to people facing high degrees of food insecurity, predominantly resulting from violence and armed conflict.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hunger, Conflict, and Improving the Prospects for Peace |url=https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000119678/download/ |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2024-06-05 |title=Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: June to October 2024 outlook - occupied Palestinian territory {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/hunger-hotspots-fao-wfp-early-warnings-acute-food-insecurity-june-october-2024-outlook |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}</ref> Over 60% of the people facing hunger globally live in regions experiencing armed violence, which compounds with increased displacement, destruction of food systems, and increased humanitarian access challenges to pose massive risks to food security in the regions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our work {{!}} World Food Programme |url=https://www.wfp.org/our-work |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=www.wfp.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, more than 300 million people faced acute hunger globally.<ref name=":1" /> WFP said it had "reached 152 million people with essential aid" in 2023.<ref name=":1" />

The latest Hunger Hotspots outlook released June 2024 and co-published by WFP and FAO, emphasised that "acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hotspots" between June and October 2024. These countries and country clusters face famine or risk of famine, with population already in or facing [[Integrated Food Security Phase Classification|IPC Phase 5]] (Catastrophe). Of those countries, [[Haiti]], [[Mali]], [[Palestine]], [[South Sudan]], and [[Sudan]] are classified as the most concerning.<ref name=":3" />

WFP is also a first responder to sudden-onset emergencies. When floods struck [[Sudan]] in July 2020, it provided emergency food assistance to nearly 160,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=WFP expands assistance to families struggling in flood-devastated regions of Sudan |url=https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-expands-assistance-families-struggling-flood-devastated-regions-sudan |access-date=8 January 2021 |publisher=World Food Programme |date=17 September 2020}}</ref> WFP provided food as well as vouchers for people to buy vital supplies, while also planning recovery, reconstruction, and resilience-building activities, after [[Cyclone Idai]] struck Mozambique and floods washed an estimated 400,000 hectares of crops on early 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=All you need to know about 2020 Nobel Peace Prize winner Word Food Programme |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/all-you-need-to-know-about-nobel-peace-prize-winner-world-food-programme/articleshow/78573291.cms |access-date=6 January 2021 |publisher=Times of India |date=9 October 2020}}</ref>

WFP's emergency support is also preemptive in offsetting the potential impact of disasters. In the Sahel region of Africa, amidst economic challenges, climate change, and armed militancy, WFP's activities included working with communities and partners to harvest water for irrigation, restore degraded land, and support livelihoods through skills training.<ref>{{cite news |title=World Food Programme Reinforces the Resilience of the Population in the Sahel |url=https://unowas.unmissions.org/world-food-programme-reinforces-resilience-population-sahel |access-date=7 January 2021 |publisher=United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel |date=2 March 2020}}</ref> It uses early-warning systems to help communities prepare for disasters. In Bangladesh, weather forecasting led to the distribution of cash to vulnerable farmers to pay for measures such as reinforcing their homes or stockpiling food ahead of heavy flooding.<ref>{{cite news |title=WFP provides assistance to communities at risk of monsoon flooding |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/07/02/wfp-provides-assistance-to-communities-at-risk-of-monsoon-flooding |access-date=9 January 2021 |publisher=World Food Programme |date=2 July 2020}}</ref>
[[File:World Food Programme in Liberia 002.jpg|alt=A couple of Liberian citizens (wearing blue vests that read World Food Program) unload weights of food to other citizens.|thumb|The World Food Program hands off high-energy biscuits to civilians at a Liberian port during the Second Civil War.]]
WFP is the lead agency of the [[Logistics Cluster]], a coordination mechanism established by the [[Inter-Agency Standing Committee]] (IASC).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etcluster.org/|title=Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC)|website=www.etcluster.org}}</ref>  It also co-leads the Food Security Cluster.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fscluster.org/|title=Food Security Cluster|website=fscluster.org}}</ref> The WFP-managed [[United Nations Humanitarian Air Service]] (UNHAS) serves over 300 destinations globally. WFP also manages the [[United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot]] (UNHRD), a global network of hubs that procure, store and transport emergency supplies for the organization and the wider humanitarian community. WFP logistical support, including its air service and hubs, has enabled staff and supplies from WFP and partner organizations to reach areas where commercial flights have not been available during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chan |first1=Selina |title=The chain that coronavirus cannot break |url=https://www.wfp.org/stories/chain-coronavirus-cannot-break |access-date=9 January 2021 |publisher=World Food Programme |date=31 March 2020}}</ref>

===Climate change===
[[File:Bangladesh WFP Sayed Asif Mahmud.jpg|thumb|WFP took pre-emptive action to reduce the impact of floods in Bangladesh. Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud]]
WFP provided cash to vulnerable groups ahead of torrential rains in Bangladesh in July 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rowling |first1=Megan |title=Analysis: As disaster train gathers speed, efforts gear up to clear the track |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-aid-climatechange-disaster-ana-idUSKBN2781IJ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023235121/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-aid-climatechange-disaster-ana-idUSKBN2781IJ |url-status=live |archive-date=23 October 2020 |access-date=7 January 2021 |publisher=Reuters |date=23 October 2020}}</ref> Its response to [[Hurricane Dorian]] in the Bahamas in September 2019 was assisted by a regional office in Barbados, which had been set up the previous year to enable better disaster preparedness and response. In advance of Dorian, WFP deployed technical experts in food security, logistics and emergency telecommunication to support a rapid needs assessment. Assessment teams also conducted an initial aerial reconnaissance mission with the aim to put teams on the ground as soon as possible.<ref>{{cite news |title=WFP lends expertise before and after Hurricane Dorian |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/bahamas/wfp-lends-expertise-and-after-hurricane-dorian |access-date=11 January 2021 |publisher=ReliefWeb |date=8 September 2019}}</ref>

===Nutrition===
[[File:Nutrition_Issa-Al-Raghi.jpg|thumb|A child holds a WFP supplementary, specialized food to treat malnutrition among children, at a WFP-supported nutrition clinic in Yemen. Photo: WFP/Issa-Al-Raghi.]]WFP works with governments, other UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector, increasing food security, supporting nutrition interventions, policies and programmes, that include school meals and food fortification.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahmad |first1=Reaz |title=Bangladesh introduces micronutrient-enriched fortified rice first time in OMS |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/08/10/bangladesh-introduces-micronutrient-enriched-fortified-rice-first-time-in-oms |access-date=7 January 2021 |publisher=Dhaka Tribune |date=10 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=WFP launches seasonal support for 1 million people in Mali |url=https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/25919/wfp-launches-seasonal-support-for-1-million-people-in-mali |access-date=11 January 2021 |publisher=infomigrants.net |date=9 July 2020}}</ref>

===School meals===
[[File:School meals WFP.jpg|thumb|A child eats a WFP school meal in Lao. Photo: WFP/Vilakhone Sipaseuth]]
School meals encourage parents in vulnerable families to send their children to school, rather than work. They have proved highly beneficial in areas including education and gender equality, health and nutrition, social protection, local economies and agriculture.<ref>{{cite web |title=The impact of school feeding programmes |url=https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000102338/download/?_ga=2.168978918.694102881.1604921119-1516168960.1603989980 |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> WFP works with partners to ensure school feeding is part of integrated school health and nutrition programmes, which include services such as malaria control, menstrual hygiene and guidance on sanitation and hygiene.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joint Advocacy Brief - Stepping up effective school health and nutrition |url=https://www.wfp.org/publications/joint-advocacy-brief-stepping-effective-school-health-and-nutrition |website=wfp.org |date=19 May 2020 |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref>

===Smallholder farmers===
WFP is a member of a global consortium that forms the {{visible anchor|Farm to Market Alliance}}, which helps smallholder farmers receive information, investment and support, so they can produce and sell marketable surplus and increase their income.<ref>{{cite web |title=Changing lives for smallholder farmers |url=https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000110345/download/ |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Farm to Market Alliance secures additional public funding from Norway |url=https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/world-food-day-wfp-urges-further-strengthening-food-systems |access-date=11 January 2021 |publisher=World Food Programme |date=28 December 2020}}</ref> WFP connects smallholder farmers to markets in more than 40 countries.

In 2008, WFP coordinated the five-year Purchase for Progress (P4P) pilot project. P4P assists [[smallholding]] farmers by offering them opportunities to access agricultural markets and become competitive players in the marketplace. The project spanned across 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and trained 800,000 farmers in improved agricultural production, post-harvest handling, quality assurance, group marketing, agricultural finance, and contracting with WFP. The project resulted in 366,000 metric tons of food produced and generated more than US$148&nbsp;million in income for its smallholder farmers.<ref>[http://www.wfp.org/sites/default/files/P4P%20-%20Reflections%20on%20the%20pilot%2C%20February%202015.pdf Purchase for Progress: Reflections on the pilot, February 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311083131/http://www.wfp.org/sites/default/files/P4P%20-%20Reflections%20on%20the%20pilot,%20February%202015.pdf |date=11 March 2016 }}. WFP.org. Retrieved 8 April 2015.</ref>

===Asset creation===
WFP's Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programme provides cash or food-based transfers to address recipients' immediate food needs, while they build or boost assets, such as repairing irrigation systems, bridges, and land and water management activities.<ref>{{cite news |title=How Asset Creation & Livelihood Diversification Brings Resilience to Kenya's Arid Counties |url=https://www.agrilinks.org/post/how-asset-creation-livelihood-diversification-brings-resilience-kenyas-arid-counties |access-date=9 January 2021 |publisher=Agrilinks |date=13 July 2020}}</ref>

FFA reflects WFP's drive towards food assistance and development rather than food aid and dependency. It does this by focusing on the assets and their impact on people and communities rather than on the work to realize them, a shift away from previous approaches such as Food or Cash for Work programmes and large public works programmes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lele |first1=Uma |last2=Agarwal |first2=Manmohan |last3=Baldwin |first3=Brian C. |last4=Goswami |first4=Sambuddha |title=Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture |date=18 November 2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, United Kingdom |isbn=9780191816536 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/39139 |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>

===Cash assistance===
[[File:Cash Simon Pierre Diouf.jpg|thumb|A beneficiary shows the humanitarian assistance card she used to receive money at a WFP cash transfer point in Niger. Photo: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf]]
WFP uses [[cash transfer]]s such as physical banknotes, a [[debit card]] or vouchers, aiming to give more choices to aid recipients and encourage the funds to be invested back into local economies. During the first half of 2022, WFP delivered US$1.6 billion in cash to 37 million people in 70 countries to alleviate hunger.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Edward |date=September 15, 2022 |title=Global Food Crisis: Cash Offers Hope to the World's Most Vulnerable |url=https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/food-security-nutrition-sustainable-agriculture/5596-global-food-crisis-cash-offers-hope-to-the-world-s-most-vulnerable |website=InDepth News}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}</ref> A 2022 study by the [[Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative]] concluded that the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) cash programme "significantly reduced the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty" among the people receiving cash transfers.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Robson|first1=Matthew|last2=Vollmer|first2=Frank|last3=Berçin Do˘gan|first3=Stevis-Gridneff|last4=Grede|first4=Nils|date=August 2022|title=Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey|language=en|work=The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative|url=https://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OPHIWP142.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010151602/https://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OPHIWP142.pdf|archive-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>

===Capacity building===
In the most climate disaster-prone provinces of the Philippines, WFP is providing emergency response training and equipment to local government units, and helping set up automated weather stations.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Food Programme: Emergency response and preparedness |url=https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000108994/download/?_ga=2.106464576.2123531880.1575880347-1264218027.1561107831 |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>

===Digital innovation===
WFP's digital transformation centres on deploying the latest technologies and data to help achieve zero hunger. The WFP Innovation Accelerator has sourced and supported more than 60 projects spanning 45 countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=WFP Innovation Accelerator |url=https://www.solutions-summit.org/programs/wfp-innovation-accelerator/info |website=solutions-summit.org |publisher=Solutions Summit |access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref> In 2017, WFP launched the Building Blocks programme. It aims to distribute money-for-food assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan. The project uses blockchain technology to digitize identities and allow refugees to receive food by eye scanning.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Juskalian |first1=Russ |title=Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/04/12/143410/inside-the-jordan-refugee-camp-that-runs-on-blockchain/ |access-date=25 November 2021 |publisher=MIT Technology Review |date=12 April 2018}}</ref> WFP's low-tech hydroponics kits allow refugees to grow barley that feed livestock in the Sahara desert.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vetter |first1=David |title=Iris Scans, Hydroponics And Blockchain: How Innovation Is Helping Fight Global Hunger |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/09/22/iris-scans-hydroponics-and-blockchain-how-innovation-is-helping-fight-global-hunger/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |work=Forbes |date=22 September 2020}}</ref> The SMP PLUS software is an AI-powered menu creation tool for school meals programmes worldwide <ref>{{cite news|title=SMP PLUS, Feeding more children with better meals |url=https://innovation.wfp.org/project/smp-plus |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=WFP}}</ref>

===Partnerships===

WFP works with governments, the private sector, UN agencies, international finance groups, academia, and more than 1,000 [[non-governmental organisation]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Partner with us |url=https://www.wfp.org/partner-with-us |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> The WFP, the UN [[Food and Agriculture Organization]], and the [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]] reaffirmed their joint efforts to end global hunger, particularly amid the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], during a joint meeting of their governing bodies in October 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=FAO, IFAD and WFP pledge to strengthen collaboration against hunger |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/world/fao-ifad-and-wfp-pledge-strengthen-collaboration-against-hunger |agency=FAO |access-date=7 January 2021 |publisher=ReliefWeb |date=12 October 2020}}</ref> In the United States, [[Washington, D.C.]]–based [[501(c)(3) organization]] World Food Program USA supports the WFP. The American organisation frequently donates to the WFP, though the two are separate entities for taxation purposes.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Funke|first1=Daniel |date=October 21, 2020 |title=Fact-checking claims about charities linked to Hunter Biden and the Trump children|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/21/left-action/fact-checking-claims-about-charities-linked-hunter/|access-date=2020-10-23|website=PolitiFact|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Aid transparency ===
WFP joined the [[International Aid Transparency Initiative]] (IATI) in 2013 as its 150th member<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wfp.org/stories/how-wfp-demonstrates-accountability-and-transparency |title=How WFP demonstrates accountability and transparency |website=World Food Programme |access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref> and has regularly published data since then using the identifier XM-DAC-41140.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/wfp |title=Publishers / United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) |website=IATI Registry |access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref> The organisation was assessed by [[Publish What You Fund]] and included in the 2024 Aid Transparency Index<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/the-index/2024/ |title=2024 Index - Publish What You Fund |website=2024 Aid Transparency Index |access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref> with an overall score of 84.5, which is categorised as a "very good" score.