January 2022-June 2022

Afghanistan Hunger Crisis

2014-2022

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace and prosperity. In 2022, WFP reached 160 million people in over 120 countries and territories. We funded WFP’s School Meals Programme across Africa and the Middle East from 2014 until 2021. We’ve also supported WFP in Mozambique since 2014, initially focusing on setting up a nationally owned school meals programme for all pre-primary and primary schools across the country. Since 2017, we’ve been funding WFP’s work to provide post-harvest-loss solutions for smallholder farmers. In 2022, we funded the organisation’s food and nutrition assistance operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today, we’re helping WFP reach vulnerable communities affected by hunger, conflict, and climate shocks across the Horn of Africa.

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CHALLENGE

Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis. Almost half of the country’s population of 40 million now faces acute food insecurity, the highest number the humanitarian community has ever seen in the country.

ACTION

Through a network of dozens of warehouses and cooperating partners linked by its fleet of trucks and other vehicles – including the WFP-led UN Humanitarian Air Service, which also supports the broader humanitarian community – WFP delivered food and nutrition assistance across all the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.

This support included:

emergency food assistance,
the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition, including in some of the most remote areas of the country,
school feeding programmes, including school meals or take-home rations for primary school children and cash transfers for secondary school girls,
food or cash assistance to empower families in need to make their own purchasing decisions and build or boost productive assets.