Proudly concluding a 3-day visit with French & German Ambassadors in Salavan and Sekong provinces, heart of food insecurity in 🇱🇦. Thanks 🇩🇪🇫🇷, your support making a difference for school kids, women & farmers. More nutritious school meals, empowered women & better food security!

WFP & Winrock International are taking hydroponics to 14 schools in Oudomxay and Phongsaly provinces, Laos! 🇱🇦 Partnership for innovation, boosting crop quality, save water, and make year-round production a reality—nourishing more bellies together through the incredible support of Dept. of Agriculture

#HappeningNow : Proud to deliver keynote speech at joint ASEAN-Midori cooperation consortium meeting, invited by 農林水産省. Encouraging Japanese companies to invest in sustainable agriculture in #Laos . 🇯🇵➡️🇱🇦 #ZeroHunger 🌱🌿🌾🍚

🗾🗼🎎Happy to have met 国連WFP colleagues in their Tokyo office this morning! Interesting discussions on strengthening ties between 🇯🇵 and 🇱🇦. Thank you🙏 to Deputy Director Masae Shimomura for hosting us!
#Laos #ZeroHunger #DreamTeam

🥘🌏World Food Programme's planet-friendly #schoolmeals are transforming food systems through clean cooking, educating the youth & supporting a resilient society.

🌱In the Asia-Pacific, we're advancing energy efficient practices & climate-smart agriculture in 🇱🇦Laos, 🇳🇵Nepal, & 🇱🇰Sri Lanka.

From beans to bright futures! 🫘🌱☕️300 coffee farmers in #Laos to receive knowledge and resources to boost production&nutrition. A great partnership for incorporating nutrition into the coffee value chain! Saffron Coffee MOFA of Japan WFP Asia Pacific➡️🔗shorturl.at/gO036

Hydroponics - what an exciting technique! 🌱🫛🥬Planting without soil saves up to 90% water 🫧, which is a scarce resource in most of our target villages. Here, we are learning from Winrock International so that we can pilot this method in school gardens, for #schoolmeals . US Embassy Vientiane

Throwback: Visit to Houayloungsoung village, where we enlist a public-private partnership w/ #Laos authorities & private sector 🇯🇵SakanoTochu and 🇱🇦Saffron Coffee. Better income, better #nutrition for ethnic Hmong coffee farmers. 国連WFP WFP Asia Pacific UN in Lao PDR

#HappeningNow : Launch of new intervention with #Laos gov in LuangPrabang prov, empowering coffee farmers☕️🌱 with better income through enhanced production&marketing to 🇯🇵Japan, coupled with knowledge&access to better nutrition, partnering w/ Saffron Coffee. 🙏to MOFA of Japan

A warm welcome to the WFP family to 🎾 Ons Jabeur!

In her role as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for WFP, Ons will lend her voice to raise awareness in support of WFP's mission to end hunger for all.

Honored to represent World Food Programme @ #RTIMLaoPDR . My statement on behalf of UN in Lao PDR around importance of #foodsecurity and #nutrition as central to human development. Calling for concerted efforts to strengthen existing support programs, while ensuring strong, local food systems. #SDG2

Great to meet 🇮🇳Amb.Agrawal India in Laos today to discuss food fortification & the trailblazing example of India in reducing micronutrient deficiencies through fortifying staple foods. Looking forward to working together for the benefit of Lao PDR 🇱🇦! shorturl.at/fgPSW

An engaging conversation between ESCAP Executive Secretary Armida Alisjahbana and 🇺🇳 Country Team in #Vientiane 🇱🇦 this morning: United Nations ESCAP’s technical expertise and regional convening role dovetail into UN in Lao PDR Cooperation Framework 2022-2026

Motivated by the mischievous smile 😍of Champa&King, sisters eating their #schoolmeal 🥣🍲🥗in #Laos ' Oudomxay prov. Managed by the gov't since 2019 with technical assistance from World Food Programme, the girls enjoy a hot, nutritious lunch each day, helping them stay in school and develop well.

Glutinoues rice-so important to the culture&people of #Laos .Proud2take steps to locally produced fortified rice,w/Health&Education authorities,supported by Foreign Ag Service. We will pilot in Laos' largest social safety net: the school meal programme.Fighting malnutrition on scale!

Access to water 🫧 & food 🥘 for school children in rural #Laos - a gift that keeps giving! Proud of my Exec.Ass. Manivanh and her colleagues from WFP Asia Pacific region for raising money for a water tank and dining hall roof in two schools in northern Laos. #MerryChristmas

Merci La France au Laos 🙏! Depuis 2019, 🇫🇷 Aide Alimentaire nous aide à atteindre les plus vulnérables. Grace à ce nouveau financement 10,000 pers dans le sud du #Laos vont pouvoir subvenir a leurs besoins alimentaires & nut à long terme.
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Good discussion w/H.E. Assoc.Prof.Dr.Phout Simmalavong, Min of Edu& Sports, about future of #schoolmeals 🥣in #Laos 🇱🇦. Economic challenges ➡️ increasing school drop outs ➡️school meals more essential than ever to keep kids in school&improve #nutrition . CIDCA

Honored to participate in the celebrations around Lao PDR's 48th National Day. Best wishes for success in #Laos ASEAN chairmanship and a prosperous Visit Laos year for 2024! We maintain our World Food Programme commitment in support of 🇱🇦! 🥂🛕🌼🕊️
UN in Lao PDR Lao PDR at the UN Bakhodir Burkhanov

Thank you to UNV Asia Pacific for this initiative:
#DonateBlood to #SaveLives and fill up Lao Red Cross🩸banks in #Laos .
Join my wife Hayet and I, and donate!
UN in Lao PDR Bakhodir Burkhanov #internationalvolunteerday