Guinea

Where Women Go Hungry

Although rich in natural resources, Guinea faces major socioeconomic challenges. The poverty rate is alarming, and women especially are going hungry. Meanwhile, devastating natural disasters make things worse – but we’re on the ground helping build more sustainable food systems for the people who need them most.
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Rural Farmers Need Food

Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to hunger, and among those affected by severe food insecurity, more than 70 percent are small farmers. These farmers make up a majority of the country’s poor and have poor access to seeds and fertilizers, production and processing equipment, storage facilities, basic infrastructure and affordable financial services. Although women play a crucial role in agriculture, particularly in food production, they have difficulties in accessing land and productive resources, education, formal employment and income-generating activities. Their work is often unpaid and undervalued. Women make up 60 percent of people suffering from chronic hunger, and the majority of rural people living in poverty.

Guinea also suffers from recurring, devastating natural disasters like flooding and bush fires, making people even hungrier.

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WFP’S Work in GUINEA

We’ve been in Guinea since 1964, feeding people during and in the aftermath of crises. WFP works with the Government to improve children’s access to education, enhance nutrition, build sustainable food systems and community resilience to shocks whilst improving farmers’ access and livelihoods. Here’s how:
School children eating nutritious hot meals in Koundara School Feeding
School Feeding
To improve attendance and retention rates and encourage parents to send children—especially girls—to school, we provides nutritious school meals to 2,119 and 150,000 children in 37 pre-primary and 1,216 primary schools respectively. 8,000 girls in sixth grade (the last year of primary) receive take-home rations. The program integrates the home-grown school feeding model, promoting local production for nutritious school meals.
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Distribution of specialised nutritious food to children aged 6-24 months and pregnant and lactating women Nutrition assistance through the European Union funded project, RESIGUI in Siguiri (Kankan)
Emergency Response
During crises, WFP provides timely and adequate food assistance to meet the immediate food needs of those affected. In August 2019, following flooding in the prefecture of forest region Guéckédou, which caused great difficulty for already vulnerable families, devastating crops and livestock, WFP provided 58.5 metric tons of rice, worth $21,486, to 3,000 affected people.
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Food ingredients accessible and affordable by communities for cooking Tôh soup during harvest periods and before or after are presented in the left and right winnower respectively. Tôh is a traditional food made of cassava flour and mostly consumed by vulnerable families who cannot afford to by rice. As communities have limited access to vegetables and fresh foods during non-harvest periods decreases the amount of their nutritious food intake. The WFP project RESIGUI, funded by the European Union in Guinea supports 20,000 food insecure and vulnerable households (100,000 people) across the four (4) regions of the country with food and nutrition assistance through unconditional cash transfers, plumpy d’oz, super cereal and fortified oil rich in vitamin A distribution to improve their food security and nutritional status. The project also includes a resilient component by equipping smallholder farmers and communities with seeds, farming tools, storage facilities, access to water, cash for work and trainings on good agricultural practices, governance, and simplified fund management. This aims to improve their local food (rice and vegetable) production systems and access to market.
Nutrition
We provide life-saving nutritious food to vulnerable people, including children aged under 5, pregnant and breastfeeding women, people living with HIV/AIDS and TB and their more. Improved food security and nutrition prevents and reduces maternal malnutrition, mortality risk, low birth weight rates and malnutrition in children under 5. It also contributes to improving the health status of HIV and TB clients under treatment. WFP also supports the Government’s nutrition-sensitive programs and activities.
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Fadima keita, member of the market gardening group transporting harvested vegetables on her head in the farm Market gardening activities through the European Union funded project, RESIGUI in Siguiri (Kankan)
Farmers
We’re supporting small farmers and vulnerable communities through our integrated Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) and Smallholder Agricultural Market Support (SAMS) programs, working to improve farmer productivity and revenues, build their resilience to shocks including climate change, and increase their access to profitable and stable agricultural markets by linking them to the school feeding programs. And WFP works closely with the Government, UN sister agencies and national NGOs to build sustainable food systems and further strengthen national resilience capacities.
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WFP staff on the filed for visit and content gathering Market gardening activities through the European Union funded project, RESIGUI in Siguiri (Kankan)
Capacity Strengthening
To help strengthen Government capacities in the design and implementation of sustainable programs and ensure national ownership before an eventual handover, WFP provides institutional technical and financial support through formal partnership with various Ministries including the Ministry of Education, Health, Agriculture, Commerce, Decentralization and Cooperation.
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