World Food Programme

WFP welcomes a new @‌WFPChief today. Executive Director Luke J. Lindberg assumed office today with a call for action to donors, partners and supporters across the world to help sustain WFP's life-saving work. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dZKUXe

📍 In #Sudan, El Niño is making rainfall increasingly unpredictable. WFP is helping farmers access the information they need to plan ahead, protect their crops and prepare for the season.

WFP’s #Ebola response in DR Congo continues. Since operations began, WFP-managed UNHAS has: 🔵 Operated 1,255 flights 🔵 Transported 10,200+ passengers 🔵 Delivered 483 metric tons of critical cargo Keeping health and humanitarian partners connected to affected communities when it matters most.

🚨 Nearly 3.5 million people in Ebola-affected areas of #DRC face Crisis-level hunger or worse. WFP is providing food and nutrition assistance so patients and families can remain in treatment or isolation while meeting their basic needs. Learn more from Country Director David Stevenson ⤵️

🚨 #DRCongo: Ebola has spread to an eighth province. WFP is delivering food, supporting treatment centres and keeping critical supplies and responders moving as the outbreak expands. 🔗 Read the latest https://bit.ly/3UjQVr5

🔴 Life in #Gaza remains extremely difficult, and recent food security gains remain fragile. Acting WFP Executive Director Carl Skau explains why urgent funding is needed to keep critical assistance reaching families in Gaza 👇

💡 Smarter tools. Greater impact. From AI-powered supply chains to digital school meals and blockchain, WFP is scaling practical innovations to reach more people, more efficiently, while making limited resources go further. Discover 5 innovations transforming food assistance https://bit.ly/4Bj3T9i

🔴 Funding shortages are forcing WFP to reduce life-saving assistance in Gaza as winter approaches. Urgent support is needed to keep reaching the most vulnerable. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k5tQ5L

How do you deliver food at the scale of WFP? New digital tools are helping WFP forecast needs, optimize supply chains and coordinate operations across the world's largest humanitarian network, making it easier to get food where it's needed, when it's needed. #WorldFoodDay

This #WorldFoodDay, let’s turn solutions into action. The solutions to get ahead of hunger already exist. With innovation, partnerships and resources, we can reach people faster and help communities prepare for the shocks ahead. Hear from WFP Acting Executive Director Carl Skau 👇

What does innovation look like in a humanitarian emergency? Sometimes, it's as simple as a card. WFP's Rescue Card helps deliver assistance in as little as 72 hours, helping families access food and essentials faster when crises strike. #WorldFoodDay

🚨 #Yemen: Escalating conflict has cut WFP’s access to 800,000 people. Blocked roads and insecurity are restricting humanitarian access as food supplies run low. WFP is responding wherever possible, but safe access and urgent funding are critical.

All-terrain vehicles can travel through water, mud and flooded terrain to help reach communities cut off by extreme conditions. But vehicles alone aren’t enough. Hear from the people training to operate them safely and effectively 👇

🚨Escalating conflict in Yemen is cutting off life-saving assistance to 800,000 people in Taiz. WFP is providing emergency assistance where it can and stands ready to scale up as access allows, but safe and sustained humanitarian access, together with urgent funding, is critical.

🚨 #Yemen: Escalating conflict is cutting off life-saving assistance in Taiz. Humanitarian access must be protected so assistance can continue reaching people in need. 🔗 Read more: https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-warns-escalating-yemen-conflict-cutting-life-saving-assistance-city-taiz

🍽️ Lunchtime at Boku Primary School in Borena, E#thiopia. School meals help children learn, grow and thrive. In Oromia, WFP is strengthening meals with nutritious foods while supporting local food systems and livelihoods. See school meals in action 👇

📍#Gaza: WFP supports kids in 360 temporary learning spaces, with dates bars, high energy biscuits, fruit and milk, helping them stay healthy, nourished properly, and ready for learning. Last month WFP provided fortified snacks to 200,000 children.

Alongside governments and corporations, support from individuals is becoming an essential engine for driving WFP’s hunger-fighting mandate. The support is all the more crucial at a time when 266 million people worldwide face acute food insecurity. https://bit.ly/3TlAg66

When the world needs it most, WFP delivers. Every day, WFP's supply chain moves food and essential supplies to some of the world's hardest-to-reach places. From trucks and ships to aircraft and boats, teams work around the clock to reach families when it matters most. 🌍🚚📦

Families in #Yemen are fleeing escalating fighting, some surviving on bread and soup made from whatever they can find. WFP’s Matthew Hollingworth explains how teams are scaling up, and why urgent funding is needed before stocks run out. ⬇️

🆘 #Yemen: Escalating fighting has has displaced more than 149,000 people so far. WFP has reached over 70,000 people in major displacement hotspots and is preparing to support up to 1.5 million if needs rise. But food stocks are depleting rapidly. https://bit.ly/4hEJdzi

In #Yemen, escalating conflict is forcing families like Hassan’s to flee with little more than they can carry. WFP is delivering emergency food assistance, but needs are immense. Urgent funding and safe, sustained humanitarian access are critical to reach families in need.

Floods, droughts and storms are a key driver of food insecurity. Anticipatory action uses forecasts and pre-arranged financing to deliver lifesaving support early. In a world of limited resources, early action is smart action.

Food security is no longer just a humanitarian issue. It is increasingly linked to economic stability, resilience, migration, climate adaptation and global security. That reality shaped discussions throughout #UNGA81. Here are 4️⃣ key takeaways from the week. https://bit.ly/4rDHBdP

Hunger is not just a humanitarian issue. It is a threat to stability, prosperity, and peace. If we want a more peaceful and prosperous world, food security must be part of the solution.

📍 #Somalia: Drought, conflict and soaring food costs are pushing families deeper into hunger. At a WFP-supported clinic, 21-month-old Farhiya received vital nutrition support. Yet nearly 2M children face acute malnutrition as funding dries up and warehouses stand empty. https://bit.ly/3Th9nAd

Across #Kenya’s drylands, WFP is working with communities and the Government to capture and store rainwater, restore degraded land, help farmers produce food and connect what they grow to markets. And we are beginning to see those investments pay off. https://bit.ly/4iOiq5Y

📍Families fleeing escalating violence in Yemen are arriving in #Djibouti with urgent humanitarian needs. WFP is supporting the Government-led response with emergency food assistance, while preparing for more arrivals in the days ahead.⤵️

One month after deadly floods in #Nepal, WFP continues to provide a lifeline for families facing displacement, lost livelihoods and damaged farmland. By road, helicopter and cargo drone, we're delivering food assistance to the hardest-to-reach communities. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4yUlYIx

When food assistance is cut, families don't stop needing to eat. At Kyangwali refugee settlement in #Uganda, malnutrition among children under 5 has risen nearly 50% in one year. Urgent, flexible and predictable funding is critical to protect lifesaving assistance for refugee families. #UNGA81

🌀 When a hurricane is approaching, every hour matters. In #Barbados, WFP and partners position relief supplies in advance so assistance can move quickly when an emergency strikes. Investing before disaster is smarter and more effective than waiting for needs to escalate. #UNGA

In #Haiti, UN agencies and partners are responding faster, more efficiently and helping vital assistance reach communities in urgent need. WFP’s Assistant Executive Director Matthew Hollingworth explains what the #UN80 initiative looks like in action 👇 #UNGA

WFP has a long history of pushing the boundaries of humanitarian innovation. From airdrops and cargo drones, AI-enabled supply chains, amphibious vehicles, and next-gen logistics, we find new ways to reach people faster, safer, and more efficiently. Partnerships make that possible. #UNGA

📍#Somalia: Millions of people are struggling to recover from drought, insecurity and high food prices. WFP is preparing for the months ahead, but urgent support is needed to reach communities before conditions deteriorate further. https://bit.ly/4yue4pL

Hunger is not just a humanitarian issue. It is a threat to stability, prosperity, and peace. If we want a more peaceful and prosperous world, food security must be part of the solution. No nation can thrive if its people are hungry. #UNGA

🆘 #Yemen: WFP is scaling up its emergency response, so far reaching over 50,000 newly displaced people in Aden. More support is urgently needed as fighting forces thousands of families from their homes.

No single organization can meet today's humanitarian challenges alone. UN agencies are increasingly planning and delivering supply chains together, reaching more people, faster and more effectively. That's what practical UN80 reform looks like in action. #UNGA81

🌍 Food crises are accelerating in frequency, complexity and scale. At a high-level side #UNGA event, Acting WFP Chief Carl Skau explained why acting early is critical to preventing food crises from becoming catastrophes. #FightFoodCrises

📣The warning signs are impossible to ignore. Hunger is deepening while lifesaving assistance is being pushed to a breaking point. At #UNGA, leaders must act: end conflict, protect humanitarian access and urgently fund humanitarian assistance. Millions of lives depend on it.

📍#Honduras: Dry land and failing crops are already putting families’ food and incomes at risk. As #ElNiño hits families across Central America, WFP is using climate financing, anticipatory action and cash assistance to help them protect food security - before the crisis deepens.

🔴 Conflict, maritime trade disruptions and extreme weather are driving hunger worldwide, while funding and humanitarian access remain under pressure. At #UNGA, Acting WFP Chief Carl Skau is bringing a clear message: we need more support, more access and more political will to save lives👇

Conflict, climate shocks, malnutrition and funding gaps are driving hunger worldwide. Here's what's shaping the discussion at #UNGA81. https://www.wfp.org/stories/5-facts-about-food-security-and-why-they-matter-unga

We don’t need to wait for disaster. In northern #Kenya, forecasts triggered early warnings and cash support for families like Zainab’s - before poor rains deepened hunger. It’s time to make early action the norm wherever crises are predictable. #UNGA81

Every child deserves the chance to learn, grow & thrive. School meals make it possible — fueling minds, reducing hunger & breaking cycles of poverty. Let’s invest in the future, one plate at a time. 🍽️ #UNGA81

The biggest moment on the diplomatic calendar is here. 🤝 WFP is at #UNGA81 with a clear message: investing in food security is not just a humanitarian imperative. It's the foundation for global stability. #UNGA

“The meal I get at school gives me the strength to chase my dreams.” ✨ At #UNGA, WFP is highlighting the power of school meals. In 2025, WFP directly provided school meals to nearly 20 million children and supported programmes reaching around 119 million more. 🍽️🌍

As #UNGA81 begins, WFP calls on leaders, governments, and businesses to protect food security. ➡️ Advance political solutions to end conflict. ➡️ Step up funding for life-saving aid. ➡️ Mobilize private sector investment, technology, and expertise. ➡️ Invest in early action before crises escalate.

Conflict and hunger go hand in hand. We cannot address food security without addressing the root causes of conflict. And we cannot build peace when millions are hungry. #UNGA81

📍 #SouthSudan: Behind the rising needs are families who have lost homes, livelihoods and the stability they once knew. From the ground, WFP’s Matthew Hollingworth explains why South Sudan cannot be forgotten and why urgent support matters.

Luke J. Lindberg of the United States has been appointed WFP’s next Executive Director. He succeeds Cindy McCain, who led WFP from April 2023 to May 2026. Carl Skau has served as Acting @WFPChief since June. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cQXSpA