Recommendations for "Food Assistance (60 results)"
Investments could combine productivity-enhancing efforts with biofortification and biotechnology initiatives to breed nutritionally fortified varieties of staple food crops that are often grown by smallholder farmers and consumed by poor people in developing countries. Investments such as this can link agriculture to nutrition by creating economic value for producers and traders along with nutritional and health value for consumers.
2013
Strengthen food supply chains under humanitarian conditions. Coordinate action to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and avoid widespread famine, especially for millions of civilians living in conflict situations, including women and children. Expand emergency food assistance and social protection programs to ensure access to nutritious food for the poor and vulnerable, as they have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
2020
Safety nets are a subset of social protection and can be used as direct social assistance instruments for the poor with the aim of responding to and managing climate-related disasters. They include distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities. The choice of an instrument or combination of instruments depends on the context and goal.
2018
Enhance social-protection measures and programs, with a focus on people living in vulnerable situations, of whom large shares depend on the agriculture and food sector for their livelihoods. This includes emergency food assistance and safety nets, cash and in-kind transfer programmes as appropriate, local procurement schemes and school feeding programmes as relevant, mother and child nutrition programmes, food banks, to the extent possible based on locally produced biodiverse food and local food culture, and other interventions focused on informal sector workers, with particular attention to effective action for gender equality, youth, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations, which builds agency and empowerment.
2021
Social protection mechanisms, including national and international food assistance, for the poorest and most vulnerable people during, and in the aftermath of, the COVID-19 pandemic, must incorporate provisions on the right to food, in terms of quantity and nutritional quality.
2020
All relevant UN agencies must urgently develop a rapid response mechanism at global scales for food in order to support poor and vulnerable people.
2020
Initiate and strengthen social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, such as school feeding programmes, that address the quality and quantity of foods and diets to prevent malnutrition in all its forms.
2020
Develop policies that are targeted to helping people living with poverty in rural and urban areas to access nutritious food and healthier food environments.
2020
Provide timely, adequate and nutritious emergency food relief for people affected by conflicts, including displaced people.
2020
Ensure the availability of clean and adequate water and sanitation to facilitate food production, preparation and utilization in conflict and post-conflict situations.
2020
Revitalize development and governance capacity and expertise in areas relevant to sustainable FSN during conflict and in post-conflict situations.
2020
Provide support services and social protection, including in crises and complex emergencies.
2020
Adopting an international agreement on food emergencies.
2021
Strengthen foresight and scenario processes to better understand the longer-term implications of current trends and future uncertainties for different stakeholder interests
2022
Ensure adequate and equitable resources for rapid emergency responses, including local sourcing of food and other supplies.
2022
Early detection and support for the management or treatment of different forms of malnutrition, which is critical in informing food systems transformation, as well as social protection needs in crisis situations.
2021
In conflict-affected areas, maintaining that conflict-sensitive food systems function to the highest extent possible, while also aligning actions for immediate humanitarian assistance to protect lives and livelihoods with development and sustaining peace efforts, is the key to building resilience of the most vulnerable in these areas.
2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that during economic slowdowns and downturns, it is critical to keep food supply chains operational, while providing adequate support to the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, ensuring continued production and access to nutritious foods, including through enhanced social protection programmes.
2021
It is important to recall that the majority of chronically food-insecure individuals, and many of the malnourished, live in countries affected by insecurity and conflict. Therefore, it is imperative that conflict-sensitive policies, investments and actions to reduce immediate food insecurity and malnutrition be implemented simultaneously with those aimed at a reduction in the levels of conflict, and aligned with long-term socio-economic development and peace-building efforts.
2021
The use of micronutrient supplements for vulnerable groups can be an appropriate interim measure until food systems are transformed to provide greater dietary diversity and ensure everyone has access to affordable healthy diets at all times.
2021
The adoption of biofortified crops by smallholder farmers can improve the supply of essential micronutrients not only via own consumption, but also through commercialization in local markets and inclusion in social protection programmes including in-kind food transfers and school meal programmes (the latter in all kinds of settings across the rural–urban continuum).
2023
Allow markets to work by removing distortions and support the most vulnerable countries and households via social safety nets, and where most needed, through humanitarian assistance.
2022
Countries should target social protection and food subsidies towards the most vulnerable households. Accurate targeting is crucial to ensure that subsidies go to the truly needy and not to more prosperous households that can absorb increased food costs, or households that can readily switch to lower-cost alternative foods.
2022
To the extent possible, assistance should not be tied to national export interests—organizations like WFP operate most efficiently when they are able to source food from the lowest cost suppliers.
2022
Undertake targeted interventions in food retail environments to mitigate unequal food security and nutrition outcomes, especially for populations at risk of food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, such as children, youth and the urban poor. Depending on the specific context, these interventions may include: restricting the sale of unhealthy food products near educational premises; and promoting public procurement programmes for nutritious foods.
2023
Governments, with the support of intergovernmental organizations and international assistance and cooperation where appropriate, should ensure safe and unhindered access to safe and nutritious food and nutritional support for refugees, internally displaced people, host communities, and asylum seekers in their territory, in accordance with governments’ obligations under relevant international agreed instruments.
2021
Intergovernmental organizations and development partners should, with the consent of governments, where appropriate, involve local non-governmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders, including appropriate safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interests, in the implementation of humanitarian food assistance and livelihood programmes to support economic recovery and development, strengthen sustainable local food systems and foster the ability of smallholders and/or family farmers to access resources to bolster production and markets.
2021
Governments should have, in accordance with national priorities and capacities, emergency preparedness plans in place to ensure food security and nutrition of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups as well as emergency nutrition surveillance with appropriate indicators during crises such as epidemics and pandemics, conflicts and disasters including those induced by climate change.
2021
Governments, all parties involved in conflicts, disasters including those induced by climate change, epidemics and pandemics, and food assistance, including intergovernmental organizations, should underline and support that food security and nutrition assessments and analyses include appropriate safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interests, are undertaken throughout a crisis to inform food assistance and nutrition response as well as any components of the local food system requiring rehabilitation or improvement.
2021
Governments should acknowledge nutrition as an essential need and humanitarian assistance should aim to meet and monitor nutritional requirements of the affected population, particularly the most vulnerable to malnutrition. Any food items provided should be fit for purpose, of appropriate nutritional quality and quantity, be safe and acceptable. Food should conform to the food standards of the host country’s government.
2021
Governments, with the support of intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, should strengthen public procurement systems by ensuring healthy diets are available, accessible, affordable and convenient in public settings and institutions, including kindergartens and other childcare facilities, schools, hospitals, foodbanks, government offices and workplaces, military bases andprisons, nursing homes, and care settings, in line with national food-based dietary guidelines, and engaging with, where available, smallholders and family farmers and vulnerable local food producers.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should support social protection mechanisms and programmes to prevent and manage wasting, that include safe, nutritious and, where possible, locally produced food, and that achieve adequate coverage during times of crisis.
2021
Governments should link the provision of healthy school meals through sustainable food systems with clear nutritional objectives, aligned with national food-based dietary guidelines and adapted to the needs of different age groups, with special attention to those most affected by hunger and malnutrition.
2021
Food fortification can play a complementary role in humanitarian contexts and should be evidence-based, and context-specific.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should pay particular attention, to protection issues, and ensure safe and unhindered access to safe, nutritious food and nutritional support to the most vulnerable groups and implement community based nutrition education activities to address malnutrition in humanitarian contexts and should foster access to productive resources and to markets that are remunerative and beneficial to smallholders.
2021
Social protection mechanisms should be in support of local markets and accessibility of nutritious food in the longer term.
2021
Governments, parties involved in conflicts, international humanitarian organizations and other relevant stakeholders should, where appropriate, ensure safe and unhindered access of all members of affected and at-risk populations to food security and nutrition assistance, in both acute and protracted crises, consistent with internationally recognized humanitarian principles, as anchored in Geneva Convention of1949 and other UNGA Resolutions after 1949.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should support, when implementing cash and voucher assistance, that the minimum expenditure basket and transfer value promotes, nutritious and safe food, if possible, sustainably produced, that is preferably locally, or regionally procured and sufficient to provide a healthy diet for all stages of the lifecycle consulting existing guidance from WFP and other UN relevant intergovernmental organizations.
2021
Support innovative public procurement of food from small-scale producers and local small and medium enterprises and micro-enterprises in public policies regarding, among others, school feeding programmes, other safety nets, food assistance and public preparedness mechanisms, prioritizing low-income and food insecure people. Preference should be given to sustainably produced food that contributes to healthy diets while supporting local and rural development objectives.
2019
Improve or change school food and nutrition programmes and other public procurement processes associated with food distribution to ensure that meals are consistent with updated food-based dietary guidelines and lead to healthy diets.
2023
Change food taxes and subsidies to provide consumers with an economic and rational decision-making justification for change; food subsidies to promote healthy diets targeting low-income households are beneficial for increasing the affordability of healthy diets.
2023
Promote production and consumption of biofortified or fortified staple foods as complementary nutrition strategies where needed. These foods can be an equitable and affordable means of delivering nutrients to especially vulnerable populations, including women and children.
2024
Provide cash and/or food vouchers to improve maternal diets while monitoring gestational weight gain to detect inadequate weight gain as well as excess weight gain.
2024
Provide daily iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation for pregnant women during routine antenatal care. In settings where the prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women is less than 20 percent, or daily iron is not acceptable due to side effects, provide intermittent IFA supplementation. In settings with a high prevalence of nutritional deficiencies, multiple micronutrient supplements that contain IFA may be considered.
2024
Increase nutrition-sensitivity of social protection programmes for all age groups or targeted ones (e.g. for pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children, or the elderly) through modalities of adequate size and potential for improving nutrition – e.g. subsidies or food vouchers linked to retailers serving nutritious foods, while excluding foods, snacks and beverages high in energy, sugars, fats and salt; introducing rewards for transfers or vouchers spent on nutritious foods; implementing behaviour change communication strategies focused on healthy diets, physical activity, and the preventive use of health services (early detection of overweight, obesity and non-communicable diseases).
2024
Ensure adequate prevention and management of moderate and severe wasting – including with ready-to-use therapeutic foods, food supplements and improved fortified blended foods – depending on the condition and the context.
2024
In settings where the prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant women is 20 percent or higher, provide intermittent iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation for menstruating, non-pregnant adolescent girls. If the prevalence is 40 percent or higher, provide daily iron supplementation.
2024
Monitor targeted protein and energy supplements to prevent unintended excess weight gain during pregnancy.
2024
Include food‑system support in disaster‑response funding plans at all levels, from national to local.
2024
Invest in nutrition‑oriented public procurement programmes, specifically targeted at vulnerable populations within urban and peri-urban populations.
2024
Prioritize local, agroecological and small‑scale farmers in public procurement programmes, particularly within school feeding programmes and programming aimed at nutrition in the first 1 000 days.
2024
Develop local bylaws that support the decentralized development of food banks and community kitchens, as well as deferral of surplus food to food banks, community kitchens and other food distribution programmes, informed by principles of dignity and agency.
2024
Strengthen the role of civil society organizations in providing food aid in times of crisis, harnessing their capacity to reach vulnerable populations.
2024
Food coupons to vulnerable groups for fresh produce markets
2019
Shock-responsive social protection (including social safety nets such as distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities) risk transfers (e.g., climate risk insurance) and forecast-based financing
2018
Redesign food production and access programmes with a nutrition focus
2020
Design food assistance programmes that offer adequate access to healthy food, not just sufficient calories
2020
Whenever possible, provide alternatives to school lunch programmes when schools are closed.
2020
Provide adequate emergency food aid, wherever possible with local and regional purchase of foods for food assistance
2020