Spotlight innovations

These WFP-supported innovations have proven impact at scale, impacting millions of lives and helping WFP be more efficient and effective in delivering life-saving support for vulnerable communities.

Building Blocks

Blockchain network for humanitarian assistance

SCOUT

Rethinking WFP's global supply chain planning
Paying digitally

plugPAY

Enabling people to receive cash assistance through a one-stop shop
UNHAS plane taxis on grass airstrip with palm trees in the background. I © WFP/Sean Rajman

UN AI Smart Mission Planner

Real-time travel options for humanitarians
Students walking to school.

School Connect

Transforming school meals through digital monitoring
Farmers review SMS received from Ignitia.

Ignitia

AI powered hyper-local weather forecasts for smallholder farmers

Innovation portfolio

Our full portfolio of WFP-supported innovations address a wide range of social impact issues relevant to WFP's core operations in emergency response, supply chain, smallholder farmers and beyond, supporting the world's most vulnerable communities in fragile contexts.  The WFP Innovation Accelerator supports innovators and start-ups on their path to scale by granting business and technical support and grant funding to implement a defined scaling project or sprint.

Photo credit: WFP/Kirstyn Allen

CODA

Simplified solutions for complex programmes

Prisma

HungerMap LIVE

Tracking hunger in near real-time
A young student enjoys a school meal.

Route The Meals

Optimizing delivery networks and routes for efficient humanitarian supply chains
Women drying foods using a solar dryer

Solar 4 Resilience (S4R)

Solar-based technologies for building resilience and livelihoods of female smallholder farmers in India.
GeoTar map

GeoTar

Seeing the unseen. Targeting the overlooked. Granularity that saves lives.
A farmer guides a group of oxen walking in a circle over a pile of harvested grain, threshing it by trampling. The scene is set in a rural Amhara region in Ethopia landscape with traditional thatched-roof huts in the background.

Integrated Risk and Post-Harvest Management

Integrating climate risk management and sustainable business models to increase smallholder farmers' livelihoods.
SKAI

SKAI

Unleashing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize disaster response and humanitarian aid
© WFP/Michael Castofas

Anomaly Detection for Assistance Delivery

AI‑powered anomaly detection for fair, transparent humanitarian operations
Srow and WFP staff member, Yangwasi Sakala, inspect a rain gauge provided by WFP. Photo: WFP/Andy Higgins

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative

Building resilient food systems through R4’s integrated climate risk management approach

AF-PULSE

Anticipating crises, guiding faster humanitarian action in Afghanistan.
Smallholder farmer with phone

Viamo Voice Companion

Gen-AI voice-based assistance for vulnerable communities
AHEAD vehicle entering the water

AHEAD

Advancing last-mile food delivery with tele-operated vehicles
Etherisc at Machakos agricultural training center, Kenya.

Etherisc

A blockchain-based open-source platform to mitigate weather risks
Margret speaks with WFP Communications Associate Tatenda Macheka in her field near her home in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Photo: WFP/Cynthia Matonhodze

WFP Innovation BRIDGE

Catalysing investments to impact businesses disrupting hunger
Screen with coding

AI Sandbox

Enabling a collaborative, efficient and responsible environment to experiment, develop and scale AI solutions for humanitarian needs
Woman showing display of her phone, hand with phone scans displayed qr code

AIDONIC

Enhancing WFP's targeting and management of vulnerable populations
Beneficiaries of cash assistance in Afghanistan

HesabPay

Traceable cash-based transfers in Afghanistan

AI for Country Strategic Planning

AI-based solution to support strategic planning for WFP operational countries
Deploy Tech Tank

Deploy Tech

Concrete, sustainable and repairable temperature-regulating water tanks

Visual Artificial Intelligence Solutions

Empowering smallholder farmers with Sensorless, AI-powered climate-smart agriculture solutions

Responsive Drip Irrigation (RDI)

Innovative irrigation system that helps plants self-regulate their water and nutrients using organic chemistry

Carbon Credits Tanzania

Catalysing e-cooking usage in Tanzania through a co-funding carbon scheme

P-Vita

Upcycling palm waste and providing affordable, natural, high-value fertilizers to smallholder farmers.

Noornation

Transforming Upper Egypt’s traditional flood irrigation into efficient, solar-powered systems with its Solar Irrigation as a Service (SIaaS) model.
A young child has their arm measured as part of a nutrition data collection service.

Enhance

Evidence-based insights for affordable, sustainable and healthy diets
AST

Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies

Microbial Innovation for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
A pilot site close to Anbar, Iraq.

Desert Control

Boosting crop yield, reversing desertification and cutting water usage through Liquid Natural Clay
People Portal in action. Photo: WFP

People Portal

Transforming humanitarian assistance through people-driven, remote self-registration and updates.
Partners with Sun Solar Convection Oven

Partners with Sun

Your trusted clean energy partner

Remer

Using bio-fertilizer to enhance nutrient availability, promote efficient nutrient cycling and stimulate root growth, for increased resistance to environmental stresses
Cows

Greener Herd

Transforming livestock management in the MENA region by offering advanced tools tailored to local needs.
A boy eating lunch at his school desk.

The Green Meal Project

Uniting green solutions for healthy school meals
Displaced Syrian families receiving food assistance in Maskaneih city. | Photo: WFP/Marwa Bana

Displacement Watch

Real-time insights to anticipate and respond to displacement crises

Babban Gona

Putting poultry enterprises in the hands of rural women.
WFP response to the displaced families from Lebanon. Photo: © WFP/Marwa Bana

EWS_Conflict & Displacement

Conflict-sensitive humanitarian action
NimsyAgro Solar

Nimsy Agro Solar Concept

Empowering smallholder farmers with affordable solar irrigation for year-round farming.
Woman fills bag using GrainATM.

Annapurti - GrainATM

Strengthening India’s last-mile access to food

UN System Online Auctions

Transforming end of life cycle asset management into a transparent, global digital marketplace

Weather Walay

Climate intelligence platform

Augmented Building Damage Assessment (ABDA)

Rapid, AI‑driven insights for faster disaster damage assessment

aQysta Nepal

Connecting smallholder farmers to organic inputs and premium markets through a pay-after-harvest digital platform.
Crop Yield Early Estimation supports WFP by blending AI, satellite imagery and advanced crop and climate models to deliver crop forecasts for smallholder farmers. | Photo: WFP

Crop Yield Early Estimation

AI‑powered early warnings for food security threats

Kheti.farm

Delivering inclusive financial and agricultural services to smallholder farmers in Nepal

Alreef-Mushroom

Recycling organic waste, growing organic mushrooms year-round in closed incubators.

PlantSat

Satellite-based weather index insurance solution for smallholder rice and sugarcane farmers in Nepal

Farm2Go

Super Krishak

A digital agriculture solution helping farmers adapt to climate change and improve farm performance in the Himalayas

Green shovel

Smart monitoring systems to help farmers optimize resources, improve efficiency, and boost yields sustainably.

Seyrab Water Systems

IoT-enabled groundwater recharge system making groundwater resources more resilient to climate change and other water scarcity challenges

Zhany

Turning organic waste into nutrient‑rich vermicompost that boosts soil health and sustainable farming.
ADAM+ integrates with the Global Earthquake Model Foundation’s data for faster, more accurate insights. Photo: GEM Foundation

GEM / ADAM+

Enhancing global earthquake risk and impact analysis.

CLIMBS Life

Cooperative-led insurance platform building climate and community resilience through inclusive protection and nature-based solutions

Rebug2Debug

Transforming organic waste into affordable, nutrient‑rich fertilizer that boosts smallholder productivity and strengthens Rwanda’s food systems.

Alumni

Alumni projects have completed their life cycle with the WFP Innovation Accelerator. Some have scaled-up or were rolled into WFP’s operations, while others may have gone their own way. All have had the chance to test their innovations in WFP’s field projects and gained valuable insights that will inform their future paths.

Imara Tech

Ending manual labour on small farms
A brightly-colored storage container converted into a kitchen for delivering healthy school meals in El Salvador.

Kitchen In a Box

Promoting access to safe infrastructure for the preparation and delivery of nutritious school meals

Toothpick Company Ltd. (The Toothpick Project)

Harnessing bio-herbicide technology to combat the most destructive weed infestation in Africa
The AquaPoro team (from left to right: Obeida Mudraj, Husam Almassad, Fouad Rihani, and Suhaib BaniHani) unboxes the first manufactured sample of WaHa.

AquaPoro

Enhancing water access and resilience in refugee and host communities
Women using charcoaled briquettes to cook. Charcoaled briquettes replace harmful wood-based charcoal and mitigate deforestation.

Sustainable Fuel for Cooking

Training communities to produce and market bio-briquettes: an affordable, improved, and safe alternative cooking fuel out of the abundant and invasive water hyacinth
WFP staff Pennias Mulauzi helping farmers weigh crops for the market WFP_Paul MboshyaJR

Farm to Market Alliance

Taking farmers from seed to market
Fortified wheat flour. Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud

Chakki

Engaging small-scale producers to fortify wheat flour for the hardest-to-reach

ECODASH

Giving our supply chain a greener future
Bridgefy

Bridgefy

A free messaging platform that works without access to the internet
Woman in front of maize field

ML4AA

Predicting climate shocks with Artificial Intelligence

SHAPES

Data-driven simulations to enhance humanitarian response
iplant

iPlant

Mobile vertical farming system
Koolhome Solar Freezer team in Nigeria

Koolboks

Learners from Woodlands B Primary School at Hydroponics Garden_WFP_PaulMboshyaJr

H2Grow

Growing food in impossible places

DARTs

Smart assurance for efficient and accurate assistance

Takachar

Turning crop waste into fertilizer
Photo credit: WFP/Khudr Alissa

Optimus

Data-driven insights to save lives

Emerging Cooking Solutions

Chinja malasha, chinja umoyo! (Change your fuel, change your life!)

School Meal Planner (SMP) PLUS

Feeding more children with better meals

EYouth - Empower Me

Learning and training opportunities for refugees and host communities through an AI-based tech learning platform

Electric Pressure Cookers for Schools (EPC4S)

Clean cooking solution for school canteens

Clean Cooking

Saving up to 70 percent of energy needs in WFP school canteens through heat retention bags
Paper records

Meza

Digitising paper records for smart phones

PRISM

Combining remote sensing and vulnerability data for risk and impact analytics
A man speaking to a group of people

Arable

Increasing smallholder farmer resilience through agronomic advising and micro-insurance

Asset Impact Monitoring System (AIMS)

EMPACT

Connecting youth to the digital economy - Graduated Project

Dalili

Maano - Virtual Farmers Market

Payment Instrument Tracking

Digitally verify people's identity and capture the end-to-end process for tracking payment cards, including their last mile delivery.
Hello Tractor

Hello Tractor

Mobile IoT app connecting smallholder farmers with tractor services