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In recent years, the ongoing conflict in Iraq has resulted in the displacement of more than three million people from their homes and jobs.
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Every year the World Food Programme (WFP) assists some 80 million people in over 80 countries — making sure, they have access to the food and nutrition they need to live their lives at their fulles
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To help the newbie social entrepreneur cut through the noise, we’ve put together a list of our favourite online sources, from the most tech-oriented websites to outlets that provide useful skills or free innovation design resources.
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We're marking the first anniversary of WFP’s Innovation Accelerator officially opening its doors in Munich, Germany by taking a look back at an action packed year of ideas, projects and frontier thinking.
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Earlier this month, WFP Iraq teamed up with the Innovation Accelerator to discover how user a user-centered approach to programming could build long-term skills and livelihoods.
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A new citizen journalism project is giving a voice to young Sudanese refugees in Chad.
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MUNICH – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is deploying cutting-edge blockchain technology to make cash-based transfers faster, cheaper and more secure.
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Vegetables previously thrown away purely for their looks are being transformed into nutritious school meals in Kenya.
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Deep in the Jordanian desert you might be surprised to find a team of academics, computer scientists and humanitarians buzzing around washing-machine sized boxes, punching code into nearby laptops. In a country where a mere 10 percent of the land is suitable for cultivation, that’s exactly what you’ll find.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is fast approaching the peak of the hype cycle for emerging tech, but can it help improve the lives of the bottom billion?
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Smallholder farmers in Zambia have gone digital, advertising and coordinating sales, making payments and transporting crops with the help of a Virtual Farmers’ Market, a
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Watch again as eleven finalists pitch their ideas in the final stage of the Global Impact Challenge (GIC).
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Eleven up-and-coming start-ups will attend a week-long boot camp at the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich, Germany in a bid to secure the support needed to scale their idea.
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By Brandi DeCarli, Founding Partner of Farm from a Box.
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WFP Algeria was the big winner at last week’s WFP Innovation Pitch Night, with ‘Hydro-Sahrawi’ nabbing the Jury’s Choice award in an evening of high tension and bold thinking.
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As the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development takes place in Bonn, Germany, this week (1-3 March), read about one of the innovative projects the World Food Programme (WFP) is show
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WFP’s Innovation Accelerator hosted its first innovation meet-up in Nairobi, Kenya, earlier this week.
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Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programmes respond to both the short-term and long-term fo
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Last week we were proud to be included in Fast Company’s ‘The Most Innovative Companies of 2017 by Sector’,
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In early 2017, WFP took the first steps of harnessing a bold technology that can transform the fight against hunger.
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WFP is excited to announce its first ever external call for moonshot solutions to hunger.
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The WFP Innovation Accelerator was launched by the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme in 2015 to source new ideas, sprint pilot projects, and scale h
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On Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) launched the 2016 edition of its internal Innovation Challenge to find the best, brightest and boldest ideas for ending hunger.