🔸The #SOFI2023 report revealed that nearly 1 in 10 of us faced hunger last year. 🔸With high food prices, conflicts, and climate extremes, failing to act today will deepen the crisis of tomorrow. WFP's Abigail Perry explains⬇️

#Nutrition is core to international development, and core to saving lives -- co-chair Collins of Highbury chaired an insightful discussion today on preventing acute malnutrition with World Food Programme Director of Nutrition Abigail Perry ➡️ Read on to find out more 🧵(1/6)

Today World Food Programme partnered with APPG Nutrition for Development, Save the Children UK, Concern Worldwide UK & International Rescue Committee - UK to convene a crucial discussion with parliamentarians on #malnutrition prevention. 🚨The UK can drive forward action to tackle acute malnutrition by enhancing its investments in prevention🚨

⚠️The capacity of people to access healthy diets has deteriorated across the world. When food prices rise, families struggling financially often drop nutritious foods first from their diets, impacting children, women and girls the most. New report here🔗wfp.org/news/122-milli…

What policies have the potential to deliver nutritious, sustainable and affordable diets for everyone? Tune in to today's UN UN Food Systems Coordination Hub Summit with WFP's Abigail Perry, Director of Nutrition, to learn more: bit.ly/43GpHtn #UNFSS2023

During her #UNFSS23 leadership dialogue UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, our Executive Committee member Abigail Perry discussed the policies that have the potential to deliver nutritious, sustainable and affordable diets for everyone today. 👉ow.ly/osy450PkoHZ

It’s #WorldBreastfeedingWeek! 🌍🤱🏽💫 Breastfeeding prevents hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, and has greater health benefits for parent and baby. WFP protects, supports and promotes breastfeeding around the world. 👶🏾🤰🏻 🍼

Canada is an important partner for World Food Programme and our #nutrition work. As I am in Ottawa this week, I look forward to meeting with colleagues & partners to strengthen those partnerships and work together to ensure that we can provide nutrition services to those most in need.

⚠️Right now #malnutrition affects at least 1 out of 3 people globally. Today we co-led an event in the UK Parliament to: ❗️Raise the alarm on the global nutrition crisis 💡Share effective solutions ✊Call for leadership Why ❓👇 (1/3)

"Nutrition is a keystone for everything we want ODA to achieve." Today, our chairs David Mundell MP and Collins of Highbury were proud to co-host an event on the UK's role in preventing and treating global #malnutrition. 🧵 (1/6)

📺👇Last week we co-hosted an event in the UK Parliament with UNICEF UK, Save the Children UK & APPG Nutrition for Development. 📢With the Global Food Security Summit taking place 1 week today, we need urgent action to end the hunger and #malnutrition crisis. #GFSS23

🔁Poverty & malnutrition perpetuate each other in cycles repeating across generations. 👇World Food Programme Director of Nutrition Abigail Perry on why the UK-hosted Global Food Security Summit is a crucial opportunity to find ways to do things differently. ✅Progress is possible. #GFSS23

🚨Early action to prevent acute malnutrition is essential. Investments in nutrition catalyse improvements in health, education, poverty reduction and resilience. #GFSS23

Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems are a key solution connecting #climateaction and #nutrition 🌡️🍍 Join this special side event of #COP28 hosted by #EUatCOP28 on Dec 8th!🇪🇺🌍 💻Register here: bit.ly/3sGwxTf

In #SouthSudan Cindy McCain visits our nutrition team where 1000s arrive daily fleeing war in Sudan. 1 in 4 children in Renk transit centre are malnourished. World Food Programme has reached more than 128,600 children & mothers with nutrition services & more than 429,860 people with food assistance