WFP is a leader in promoting sovereign insurance products that can offer rapid finance to affected communities in the event of major disaster. By connecting climate and disaster risk financing instruments with social protection systems at regional or local levels, these schemes can better reach and target the needs of vulnerable people in response to climate shocks.
WFP Cuba is promoting inclusive risk financing solutions as part of an integrated approach to reduce the vulnerability of farmers to drought and climate-related risks.
Climate change is altering weather patterns which is negatively impacting rainfed agriculture’s productivity. This factsheet explains the importance of sustainable irrigation and how WFP designs sustainable solar water irrigation interventions.
The research provides strategic insights to understand how gender norms affected food distribution within households and what could be recommended to the Government to address this issue. The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on access to food was also examined.
Every day, poor and vulnerable families must make difficult decisions on how to share the food among the members of their households. This information note summarizes results of intra-household behaviour/patterns of food distribution and consumption and its association with individual food security and nutrition.
Every day, poor and vulnerable families must make difficult decisions on how to share the food among the members of their households. This information note summarizes results of household access to food-based safety nets and the effect of COVID-19 on intra-household access to food.
The World Food Programme (WFP) contributes to reducing extreme poverty and all forms of malnutrition in the poorest communities through cash distributions as part of the Agriculture for Nutrition (AFN) project in the Northern provinces of Lao PDR.
The WFP Lebanon Livelihoods Factsheet provides an overview of WFP’s Livelihoods programme in Lebanon, befitting vulnerable Lebanese and refugees through livelihoods and resilience programming.
The WFP School Meals Programme Factsheet provides an overview of WFP’s School Meals programme in Lebanon, benefitting refugee and Lebanese students in public schools.