Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 🇺🇳🌾🍛 The United Nations World Food Programme delivers food assistance to millions of people affected by crises.
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When every meal counts, speed and accuracy matter. WFP AI-powered tools are helping teams work faster in emergencies — so food assistance reaches the right people, in the right amounts, when it matters most. https://www.wfp.org/stories/every-meal-counts-how-wfp-using-ai-reach-more-people-faster
World Food Programme
🚚✈️🚢 5,000 trucks, 80 planes, 190 ships — on the move every single day.
That’s how we deliver life-saving food to the world’s toughest places.
💙 Help us reach families who need aid most.
🔗 http://wfp.org/supply-chain
⚠️Three months after warning that the Middle East crisis could push millions more people into hunger, new analysis shows that the fallout is already having deep and long-lasting effects.
Vulnerable families far from the center of the crisis are being hit the hardest.
🔗 https://ow.ly/P1WT50Z9YyF
The Ebola outbreak in #DRCongo has quickly spread from four to 25 health zones.
WFP-managed UNHAS is supporting the response:
✈️ 90+ flights so far
👥 680+ frontline responders transported
📦 ~10 metric tons of critical supplies delivered
This frontline service is essential to contain the outbreak.
⚠️ A new report shows the global fallout from the Middle East crisis is pushing millions more people deeper into hunger - and expected to intensify in the coming months, even if the crisis de-escalates.
🔴 +2.5M in Somalia
🔴 +2.3M in Afghanistan
🔴 +1.3M in Sri Lanka
🔗 https://ow.ly/13hi50Z7UW8
A new analysis shows millions more people struggling to meet basic food needs and, in some cases, being pushed into acute hunger due to the fallout of the Middle East crisis, in:
🔺 Afghanistan
🔺 SriLanka
🔺 Somalia
🆘 Worldwide, up to 45 million more people are at risk.
📣 The time to act is now.
#SouthSudan’s hunger crisis is worsening.
Conflict, floods and violence are pushing millions to the edge.
Nyatut fled her home to survive. Today, she’s doing everything she can to rebuild her life. ⤵️
Hunger doesn't wait for routes to re-open.
And neither do we.
After a 15,000 km journey across 9 countries, these fortified biscuits finally arrived in #Afghanistan.
As instability spread across the Middle East, WFP teams created an entirely new logistics corridor - spanning 15,000 km - to reach Afghan schoolchildren who rely on WFP meals. https://ow.ly/UbNq50Z9g0U
"I have never seen anything like it."
After visits to Afghanistan, Sudan and beyond, WFP’s Acting Executive Director Carl Skau reflects on a worsening hunger crisis — and what funding cuts mean for families on the frontlines.
Read his first‑person account ⤵️ https://ow.ly/jX1650Z8ICB
Speed and accuracy save lives in humanitarian settings. WFP is deploying artificial intelligence to help ensure food assistance reaches the right people and in the right amounts.
From Indonesia to Afghanistan, fortified biscuits travel 15,000 km across closed borders and conflict zones to reach Afghan schoolchildren who rely on WFP meals.
In his new role as WFP’s Acting Executive Director, Carl Skau gives his take on a global hunger crisis where conflict, rising costs and funding cuts are pushing food insecurity higher while aid struggles to keep pace.
