Latin America and the Caribbean

Nilus is helping WFP transform home-grown school feeding. By connecting local food producers with public institutions through a digital marketplace, Nilus ensures affordable, nutritious meals for students—while strengthening food systems and boosting local economies. Farmers benefit by growing more diverse crops and adopting regenerative practices. Nilus technology is scaling as a regional solution that empowers governments to modernize supply chains and deliver impact at scale.

Farm2Go empowers small-scale food producers by improving market access, promoting gender equity, and encouraging sustainable agriculture. Through the platform, farmers can list their produce digitally, reaching broader markets and securing better prices. Women benefit from anonymous listings that reduce bias and ensure fair pay. By supporting climate-resilient practices and sustainable food systems, Farm2Go boosts productivity, strengthens livelihoods, and builds a more inclusive and resilient agricultural future.

Identi is a voice-based biometric solution to enable secure, anonymous beneficiary verification in diverse assistance programmes. Built on blockchain, it ensures repeated aid delivery without collecting personal data—protecting privacy while boosting efficiency. Identi is accurate, cost-effective, and aligned with WFP’s protection, gender, and inclusion standards. With a vision for interoperability across agencies, it lays the groundwork for a shared, secure digital identity ecosystem in humanitarian response.

Kunka is WFP’s individual donation platform in Peru, designed to unlock food access for vulnerable communities. With just three clicks, users can contribute to solving hunger through transparent, culturally rooted, and impactful giving. Kunka bridges social investment with immediate food recovery and distribution, empowering citizens to drive sustainable change and collective action.

Kitchen in a Box builds smart kitchens for schools with a holistic approach. It offers durable and low-cost infrastructure, equips kitchens with context-specific technology and storage, and builds capacity in the community for safe and hygienic food preparation and nutrition. Additionally, it integrates planet-friendly components such as renewable energy and school gardens. The school garden produces food for school meals, serves as a learning space to promote local food production and uses drip irrigation systems to save water.

“Pilotas Resilientes” trains rural and indigenous women in the use of drones for economic empowerment and generation of context-specific information for monitoring of productive and conservation activities, climate diagnostics and prognostics for anticipatory actions. Through the association of women in networks of female drone pilots, they can offer their services to other institutions, companies and organizations as a B2B model.

Papa 4.0 is an innovation initiative aimed at transforming potato farming in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. It addresses low productivity and resource inefficiencies through precision agriculture. The project introduces short-cycle varieties, climate sensors, monocultors, drones, and solar-powered drip irrigation. By enabling off-season cultivation and targeted pest control, it seeks to boost yields, reduce costs, and access high-value market windows, ultimately improving livelihoods in mountainous rural areas.

SheCan is a WFP initiative that enhances the organization's current livelihoods and resilience efforts by tackling the issue of limited access to formal finance. It specifically targets gender-inclusive, productive loans for smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs. By leveraging a blended finance model and WFP's extensive global network, SheCan seeks to establish a sustainable pathway for equal economic participation among women. With a strong emphasis on individuals who identify as women, the initiative addresses the systemic barriers that hinder their access to the financing and resources essential for their success.

I-NOVA Bolivia is the first innovation contest launched by the World Food Programme in Bolivia to support local innovators tackling food insecurity, climate vulnerability, and economic exclusion. It targets Indigenous communities and women-led initiatives, promoting sustainable solutions that integrate food, water, and energy. The programme fosters digital inclusion, resilience, and scalable impact through a structured call for proposals, technical evaluation, and strategic partnerships.