The Gambia

WFP Gambia Country Director Vitoria Ginja, Programme Assistant Lindsay Roe and WFP Ambassador Against Hunger Howard Buffett.

WFP Ambassador Against Hunger Howard Buffett Visits The Gambia

WFP Ambassador Howard Buffett recently visited The Gambia, where he met with high-level officials and saw WFP school meals in action. During his visit, Buffett made a financial commitment to support a local procurement feasibility study. The aim of the study is to highlight the role of local markets in school feeding programmes, thereby contributing to the establishment of a national school feeding programme owned and managed by The Gambian Government.

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The Gambia has a predominantly subsistence agrarian economy and remains a least developed and low-income, food-deficit country, with a total population of 1.7 million. It is ranked 151st out of 169 countries in the 2010 United Nations Human Development Index, with a per capita GDP of US$329 (2008) and has 63 percent of the population living below the poverty line. 

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