Innovation is critical to enable the United Nations World Food Programme to deliver on its mandate to reach Zero Hunger. 

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WFP is deploying bold new tools and approaches across its global operations to help solve hunger. Explore the disruptive innovations, technologies and business models driving change.

EMPACT

Connecting youth to the future of work
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CODA (Conditional On-Demand Assistance)

Simplified solutions for complex programmes

H2Grow

Growing food in impossible places
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Innovation

accelerator

The WFP Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales high-potential solutions to end hunger worldwide. We provide WFP staff, entrepreneurs, start-ups, companies and non-governmental organizations with access to funding, mentorship, hands-on support and WFP operations. 

Innovation Bootcamps
Sprint Programme
Scale-up Enablement
Frontier Innovation
Innovation Services
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News

WFP awarded 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

9 October 2020

World Food Programme chief lauds front line staff and partners after Nobel Peace Prize win.

WFP Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
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Blog

User Research: Why you should keep people front and centre in the innovation process

26 November 2020

The global pandemic has created the need and opportunity for all sorts of smart innovations to flourish. One example is an app that monitors people’s compliance with their quarantines. I…

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News

Annapurti GrainATM dispenses food in Bengaluru slum

14 November 2020

Karnataka’s pilot Annapurti rice ATM will be installed in a slum in Bengaluru, to facilitate the poor to avail of rice on tap. Under the central scheme, the automatic grain dispensers will be…

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