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Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 🇺🇳🌾🍛 The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency working towards #ZeroHunger.
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This year has been full of unprecedented moments, and the emergence of a global #FoodCrisis. From Ukraine to Pakistan, WFP has been on the ground responding to emergencies around the world. 🧵This thread is our 2022 in 📸 pictures...
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Nearly everyone is feeling the impact of high food prices.📈 But what happens when harvests deplete and prices peak? This summer in #BurkinaFaso, the number of people facing acute hunger increased by more than 80% compared to last year.
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Planning your holiday meals? Here's a little reminder about how you can keep #FoodWaste to a minimum. 🍞Buy only what you need 🍲Eat leftovers 🥧Share the food you won’t be able to use with others We can ALL #StopTheWaste!
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Global food prices remain significantly high. The Black Sea Grain Initiative is a crucial part of the global response to the #FoodCrisis. Since its signing, WFP has moved over 380,000 MT of wheat from Ukraine to our operations in #Ethiopia, #Yemen, #Afghanistan and #Somalia.
WFP loads its first vessel "Brave Commander" in Pivdennyi port, Odesa, in August 2022. The WFP-chartered vessel "Brave Commander" is the first humanitarian cargo vessel to arrive in Ukraine's Black Sea Ports since the start of the war, under the recent Black Sea Grain initiative.
WFP grain is offloaded as it arrives at Hodeidah port coming from Ukraine for humanitarian response in Yemen. The first ship, the “MV Brave Commander” berthed in Hodeidah port on 15 October carrying 14,000 MT of Ukrainian wheat flour milled in Turkey. The total amount of grain arriving will support nearly 4 million people in Yemen for one cycle and help WFP address immediate gaps in assistance.
WFP grain vessel arrives at Hodeidah port coming from Ukraine for humanitarian response in Yemen. The first ship, the “MV Brave Commander” berthed in Hodeidah port on 15 October carrying 14,000 MT of Ukrainian wheat flour milled in Turkey. The total amount of grain arriving will support nearly 4 million people in Yemen for one cycle and help WFP address immediate gaps in assistance.
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1 in 3 people in #SriLanka is food insecure amid an economic crisis. Skyrocketing prices, shortages, and income losses pushed nutritious food out of reach for many, like Minabige and her daughter. WFP is working to reach 3.4 million people with food and nutrition support.
Minabige, 49, feed her daughter Darhika, 9, on the steps of their home in Sri Lanka. With her husband and two daughters, the family of four live in a cramped one room shack. Amid the economic crisis, women and children from poor rural and urban households who rely on national social safety net programmes have been left without help.
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What did 2022 bring for you? For our teams, the year brought new and, at times, unprecedented challenges. How did we respond?👇
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One-year-old Zamira is getting closer to green 💚 In the face of record climate extremes, WFP nutrition assistance has been critical to keep Zamira - and 50,000 other children like her - on the right track in #Pakistan.
The arm of one-year-old Zamira is measured using a mid-upper arm circumference tape. She is enrolled in a WFP-supported nutrition programme for young children and mothers in Pakistan.
One-year-old Zamira leans on her mother while waiting to be checked at a WFP-supported nutrition clinic in Pakistan. WFP has supported 50,000 children under 5 in Pakistan this year, and 49,000 pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
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Tomson Phiri
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Wondering what role youth can play in food and nutrition security? Check out this twitter chat between
@WFP_Ghana
boss
@BarbaraTClemens
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@AmeyawDebrah
and step into 2023 inspired!
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YES!!! We'd have a Twitter chat with @BarbaraTClemens, the Representative & Country Director of @WFP_Ghana, and @AmeyawDebrah, a blogger and social media Influencer. See flyer for more details. Apply now, and let's get interactive! bit.ly/3HtgMEh #WFPGhana
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Conflict and climate change! Ever wanted to know why women are more vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition during food crises? Listen to
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deputy regional director in East Africa and Pakistan midwife
@Nehamanks
explain. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3 #WFPVoices
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The Conversation - How we help women in hunger crises - BBC Sounds
Women in Somalia and Pakistan are starving. What is being done to help them?
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Meet ⭐️ student Ouy in #Cambodia👇 Her parents saved for months to buy her a bike she rides to school every day. Ouy receives WFP school meals, which don't just fuel bodies and brains; they also provide relief for parents who make sacrifices to keep their children in school.
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WFP's Gabriel Ekaale started out as a high school teacher, but soon realized his work could impact the whole 🌍 community. Today, he's WFP's Head of Programme in Lodwar, #Kenya, where he's working with communities impacted by climate extremes. Learn more ⬇️💛
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Food is a key ingredient for hope🕊️, health⚕️, home🏡 and so much more. For the millions of people WFP reaches every year, it's the foundation for a full and dignified life. What does food mean to you? 💭👇
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Ever wonder how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence can improve emergency response? Meet DEEP - a cutting-edge #AI tool we use with drones that revolutionizes how we respond to emergencies like this year's Hurricane Fiona.🚁💪
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In just a few weeks, 2022 will be over — and we’ll be closing the year with 345 million people facing starvation. Will the world allow more people to go hungry in 2023, or will we step up together in unprecedented ways?
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You may be seeing headlines about #famine. What is it? And when is it declared? Famine is the most disastrous form of prolonged, widespread hunger. Famine means it's too late.
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🆕 Famine in #Somalia is being kept at bay according to new assessments. WFP has assisted more people in Somalia than ever before, but the situation remains critical. Immediate assistance must be sustained while investments in recovery and sustainable resilience are needed.
Nuuriya, 30, feeds her 2-year-old baby Mohammed a packet of nutrition supplement at a WFP-supported clinic in Somalia. Nuuriya travelled to Baidoa after all of her livestock died due to the drought. She has ten children, but was only able to bring the four youngest with her while the oldest stayed behind with their father. The drought in Somalia has forced 1 million people to leave their homes in search of support.
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Multiple crises have collided in 2022 to create a rising tide of hunger. As such, WFP has aimed to reach 160 million people this year - a record. As the global #FoodCrisis takes hold, 2023 could be worse. Follow us all year round and learn more below.
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Rising food and fuel prices led to growing unrest this year that's plunged #Haiti into chaos. In October, for the first time ever, catastrophe-level hunger was reported in the country. Amid multiple security challenges, WFP continues to support vulnerable Haitians.
A WFP helicopter is seen transporting essential supplies and humanitarian passengers in Haiti. The highly volatile security situation puts critical humanitarian operations at risk. WFP uses vessels and maritime routes as an alternative to sending aid to the south and north by sea, while WFP-led UNHAS provides safe passage by air for humanitarian responders.
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In November, WFP resumed delivery of food and other lifesaving supplies into Tigray for the first time since the signing of the peace agreement. Fighting had created a three-month break in assistance. 13.6 million people across northern #Ethiopia need urgent support.
A woman measures rice at a distribution at Qoloji displacement camp in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. The rice, a contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea, was distributed to families in the Somali region as well as to refugees in the Afar, Somali and Tigray regions.
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#Somalia is being ravaged by the longest drought in four decades, which forced over 1 million people to flee their homes this year. WFP has reached more people in Somalia than ever before, but as the drought continues, famine remains an imminent threat.
18-month-old Mohammed Aden sits for his mid-upper arm measurement at a WFP-supported nutrition clinic in Somalia. He and his mom came from Baidoa, one of the most drought-affected regions in the country contributing to some of the highest rates of malnutrition. The drought wiped out the family’s crops and they were forced to leave their home to find assistance.
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Devastating floods also wreaked havoc across West and Central Africa, affecting 5 million people, like Amina in #Nigeria, pictured. The disaster came during a record year of hunger in the region, where 35 million people are unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs.
Amina, 45, points to damage as she looks out over flooded lands in Yobe State, Nigeria. The floods impacted a staggering five million people in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, and is one of the deadliest disasters the region has seen in years. WFP teams on the ground supported national governments to help flood-hit families with immediate food and cash assistance.
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The floods in #Pakistan this year triggered a cascade of crises. The number of people facing severe food insecurity more than doubled. WFP has assisted over 2.4 million people with lifesaving assistance. But long-term investments are badly needed to help communities rebuild.
A man collects WFP food assistance in the remote village of Haji Elahi Buksh in Pakistan. Because of the flooding, the village is only accessible by boat.
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A ceasefire was brokered for the first time in #Yemen in June, where prolonged conflict has created a seismic hunger crisis. WFP touches the lives of more than half of Yemen’s population, but massive funding shortfalls have forced us to suspend or reduce assistance this year.
Samir, 36, sits on the floor of his home in Yemen surrounded by four of his children as they share a meal. Samir’s family has been greatly affected by the war in Yemen and high food prices. He depends on monthly WFP food assistance.
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Skyrocketing prices and broken supply chains crippled #SriLanka's economy this year and led to cuts in national safety nets like school meals and nutrition for pregnant women like Keshala, pictured. WFP supports 3.4 million of the most vulnerable people impacted.
Keshala, 26, stands in the doorway of her home, that she shares with her husband, child, and in-laws. She was six-months pregnant with her second child when the crisis in Sri Lanka hit its peak in June. Keshala became extremely anemic, making her pregnancy especially dangerous, at a time when rising inflation made it hard to afford healthy food and the national nutrition programme was disrupted by the crisis.
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