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.
@WFP has reached more than 128,600 children & mothers with nutrition services & more than 429,860 people with food assistance

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

🔁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

📺👇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

⚠️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 ❓👇

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'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, World Food Programme’s director of Nutrition Abigail Perry Perry engaged with key 🇨🇦 stakeholders such as Global Affairs Canada & nutrition organizations to help advance strategies to prevent malnutrition & mobilize support for the vulnerable.

Hear more from Abigail here ⬇️

Great conversation from our Canadian office 🇨🇦 with Abigail Perry & Dr. Stanley Zlotkin from SickKids Global Child Health, the inventor of “Sprinkles” micronutrient powder.

His work has greatly shaped how World Food Programme reaches the most nutritionally at risk over the years.

'This problem is bigger than all of us & we need everyone to solve it'🫱🏾‍🫲🏽🌍

Yesterday, World Food Programme's Nutrition Director Abigail Perry welcomed nutrition organizations at our Canadian Global Office 🇨🇦 to engage in key dialogue on malnutrition prevention, especially on women & girls.

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.

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. 👶🏾🤰🏻 🍼

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

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

⚠️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…