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12 Things You Did Not Know About WFP: October 2020

WFP is the world's largest humanitarian organization assisting 100 million people in 88 countries. In 2019, WFP delivered 4.2 million metric tonnes of food, equivalent to 840,000 Asian elephants. WFP also provided $2.1 billion in cash assistance to 64 countries to increase consumer choice and strengthen local markets. WFP connects smallholder farmers to markets in over 40 countries and bought $37.2 million from them in 2019 to support local economies.

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12 Things You Did Not Know About WFP: October 2020

WFP is the world's largest humanitarian organization assisting 100 million people in 88 countries. In 2019, WFP delivered 4.2 million metric tonnes of food, equivalent to 840,000 Asian elephants. WFP also provided $2.1 billion in cash assistance to 64 countries to increase consumer choice and strengthen local markets. WFP connects smallholder farmers to markets in over 40 countries and bought $37.2 million from them in 2019 to support local economies.

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October 2020

12 things you did


not know about WFP

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WFP is the world’s largest
humanitarian agency, assisting
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Each day we have up to 5,600 trucks,
30 ships and 100 planes on the move,
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WFP is the frontline agency responding
to emergencies caused by conflict, climate
100 million people in delivering food and other assistance in shocks, pandemics and other disasters.
88 countries. some of the most remote and challenging We are tackling ongoing emergencies in
20 countries or regions, the majority

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parts of the world.

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fuelled by conflict.

We provide school meals to


17.3 million children,
improving both their nutrition and
their access to a potentially
Contributions to WFP have increased in
recent years, and in 2019 we reached a
record level of US$8bn – but we still
have a US$ 4.1 billion funding gap.
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WFP connects smallholder farmers to
markets in more than 40 countries. In
life-changing education. Since
Rising needs aligned to the high cost of 2019 we bought US$ 37.2 million worth of
1990 we have built the capacity of
assisting people amidst drawn-out conflicts, food from smallholders, who produce most
national governments, with more
climate-relate disasters and the coronavirus of the world’s food.
than 40 taking over school meal

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pandemic mean we need increased financial
programmes.
support more than ever.

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127,500 hectares of land was
developed and 7,000 hectares
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WFP delivered 4.2 million metric
More than three quarters of the
food we buy comes from developing
countries, saving time and money on
tonnes of food in 2019, the equivalent transport costs and helping sustain and
of forests were planted in 2019 weight of 840,000 Asian elephants. grow local economies.

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under WFP’s Food Assistance for

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Assets initiative, which improves
people’s long-term food security
and resilience to climate change.

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WFP is the largest cash provider in
the humanitarian community.
WFP is helping 15 countries to forecast
extreme climate events and trigger
preventive action before vulnerable
families are hit by disasters. Cash transfers
ahead of floods, droughts and storms allow
More than 50% of the people WFP
women and girls. In 2019,
serves are
60% of the participants in the R4 Rural
Resilience Initiative were women. This
enabled 56,102 women across seven
US$ 2.1bn of assistance was people in harms’ way to evacuate assets and countries to better manage their climate
provided this way in 64 countries in livestock, reinforce homesteads and buy risks with insurance policies that protect
2019. Cash increases consumer food, seeds and emergency items so they from a range of risks to their livelihoods.
choice and strengthens local markets. are better prepared to deal with a food crisis.

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