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

We put intention into innovation

Our goal is to reach Zero Hunger. To achieve this, we pilot and scale promising ideas by leveraging advances in digital innovation. We also provide Innovation Consulting Services to share knowledge with other agencies and organizations working towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

WFP Acceleration.
SDG Acceleration.
Frontiers Innovation.
Innovative Finance and Venture Launchpad

Our path to scale

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 challenges
Innovation Bootcamps
Sprint Programme
Scale-up Enablement
Discover

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.

CODA

Simplified solutions for complex programmes

H2Grow

Growing food in impossible places

SheCan

Empowering women through inclusive finance

2024: Fostering innovation across WFP

With colleagues, partners and supporters, the WFP Innovation Accelerator achieved significant results in 2024 in deploying innovative solutions worldwide. 

Read our 2024 year in review

News

Explore how the World Food Programme is transforming the fight against hunger through bold, people-centred solutions and powerful stories of impact.

When a crisis hits, ensuring humanitarian assistance reaches those in need is critical. However, numerous factors — particularly conflict — often impede this. But what if we could anticipate these…

Blog

“We can’t produce when the sun is too strong, it kills the plants,” notes Yao Passi Gênea, a farmer in Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire. With the help of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa, Amini…