World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Through the Gender Innovation Project, WFP Guinea-Bissau is supporting women farming associations in the regions of Bafata and Oio. In exchange for part of their fresh produce, which goes towards WFP school meals in 16 schools, WFP gives farming equipment to the women.

The International Committee of the Red Cross might seem out of place running agricultural diversification projects in northern Guinea-Bissau, given its mandate to help people in times of conflict and violence. (..) Guinea-Bissau ranks 173rd of 182 countries in the UN human development index. Roughly one-fifth of the northern provinces’ inhabitants are moderately malnourished, according to 2006 government statistics, confirmed by the World Food Programme (WFP).