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Fighting Hunger Worldwide
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Experience has shown that in the hands of women, food is most likely to
reach the mouths of children in need.
The majority of WFP’s beneficiaries are women and children. In many parts
of the world, such as Asia and South America, more women than men are
chronically hungry.
But women are also the secret weapon to beat hunger. In some
countries there are more women farmers than men. And they are most
often the ones who prepare food for the whole family.
Women are the key to improving household food security and
nutritional wellbeing.
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Providing the Right Food at the Right TimeWFP puts women – mothers, girls and adolescents –
at the front and centre of efforts to fight malnutrition,
especially in the critical first 1,000 days.
We now know that malnutrition in the first two years
of life, starting in the mother’s womb, can lead to
irreversible damage to children’s minds and bodies.
WFP nourishes children and adults through the
whole life cycle. It’s an investment in the next
generation.
Malnourished mothers are more likely to die in
childbirth. And mothers who were undernourished
as girls are 40 percent more likely to give birth to
children who do not survive to age five. This is called
inter-generational undernutrition.
Undernourished children are more likely to get sick,
have trouble concentrating in school, and when they
grow up, they often earn less money. So WFP targets
its food interventions to reach pregnant women and
mothers of small children to make sure they get the
right food at the right time.
Using Special Products
We have scaled up the use of special products
specially designed to boost nutrition in the
under-twos. We use vitamin-packed peanut pastes,
for example, and Wawa Mum, a locally-produced
chickpea product developed by WFP, to fight and
prevent malnutrition.
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The Power of School Meals
An extra year of primary school boosts girls’
eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. An extra year
of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent.
WFP’s school meals and take-home rations provide
an incentive to families to send their girls to school
and to nourish them while there. A hungry girl finds
it difficult to concentrate, is unable to learn or
may not even be able to go to school because she has
to stay at home to do housework. She may have to
work to help her family eat.
School meals and take-home rations help keep
girls in schools, and lower dropout rates. Keeping
adolescent girls in schools gives them a better
education and contributes to raising the age at
which they marry or have children.
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Women are responsible for almost half of the
world’s food production and in some developing
countries they make up 60 percent of the agricultural
labour force.
Yet women receive only a fraction of the credit
made available to the agricultural sector. They get
fewer tools and less training.
Adding Value
Working with partners, WFP supports women
farmers by providing seeds, fertilizer, access to
finance, markets and support for processing X which
gives products added value.
WFP encourages women to cultivate kitchen gardens
to increase the range of foods their families eat, or
vegetable gardens to increase their income and grow
food for use in school meals programmes.
WFP Helps Women Farmers
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Purchase for Progress (P4P)
Purchase for Progress is an innovative initiative that
supports smallholder farmers – particularly women
– by helping them become competitive players in the
market place.
Under P4P, WFP buys agricultural produce from
farmers at a fair price and encourages smallholders
to increase and improve the quality of production.
As the largest humanitarian agency in the world,
WFP purchases food for distribution in its assistance
programmes and increasingly it is buying from small
farmers. The P4P pilot in 21 countries seeks to turn
WFP’s local food procurement into a tool for working
on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
WFP programmes and initiatives, like P4P, are
designed with women in mind, to make sure they are
involved and have a voice.
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WFP’s Gender Policy
An evaluation of WFP’s Gender Policy found that:
“Unlike many United Nations and donor agencies,
WFP [has gone] beyond rhetoric to require specific,
strategic actions at the operational level. This
resulted in increased visibility and inclusion of
women, and laid strong foundations for gender
mainstreaming.”
Gender equality is not merely socially desirable: it is
critical to the reduction of poverty and hunger and it
is linked to the achievement of WFP’s strategic
objectives. WFP seeks to promote gender equality
and the empowerment of women.
The Gender Policy commits WFP to:
• Continue providing food assistance for pregnant
women, nursing mothers, children under five and
adolescent girls
• Continue making women the food entitlement
holders
• Continue facilitating the participation of women in
food distribution committees
• Continue improving access to education and
reducing the gender gap in schools.
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EmpoweringWomen
WFP is dedicated to lifting women out of food
insecurity. Beyond emergency food assistance, where
WFP is saving the lives of women every day, there
are many programmes, worldwide, that empower
and protect women and girls.
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Photo credits: Front cover: WFP/Rein Skullerud/Kenya Back cover: WFP/Micah Albert/Yemen Graphic, page 2, clockwise from top: WFP/Rein Skullerud/Haiti, WFP/AK Kimoto/Cambodia, WFP/Mike Bloem/Kenya, WFP/Rein Skullerud/Kenya
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