The number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be...
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The recurrent, protracted and complex nature of many crises re-enforces the importance of developing longer-term interventions that address humanitarian needs as well as development and peacebuilding challenges. Resilience is the ability...
Food assistance is provided in anticipation of, during, and in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Its objective is to save lives and livelihoods to avert emergency rates of acute malnutrition or detrimental...
The 2nd Sustainable Development Goal (SDG2) aims at ending hunger in the world by 2030 and ensuring everyone has access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food all year...
Undernutrition, acute or chronic, is a medical condition that mostly affects women and children under 5 years of age. Wasting, stunting and micronutrient deficiency are features of undernutrition...
The three pandemics—obesity, undernutrition, and climate change—represent The Global Syndemic that affects most people in every country and region worldwide. They constitute a syndemic, or synergy of epidemics, because...
Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems...
Cooking school meals requires energy. In some countries, families are asked to contribute to fuel expenses or to provide firewood, failing which, children may be...
Following the release of the WFP COVID-19 Medium-term programme framework (MTPF), the Nutrition Division has developed a number of guidance tools and documents related to the MTPF pillars of work...
Re-Imagining School Feeding: A High-Return Investment in Human Capital and Local Economies was developed by the World Food Programme and the editorial team of Disease Control Priorities and published...