Resilience Building

WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua

WFP builds resilience among the world’s most vulnerable people, who are often at the mercy of powers beyond their control.

Farmers Struggle with Development

Around the world, 8 in 10 food-insecure people live in degraded, fragile or shock-prone environments that are the most exposed to the effects of climate change.

Farmers on small patches of land are barely able to grow enough food to eat. Their livelihoods are so fragile that they can’t afford to risk experimenting with new agricultural techniques.

People who live in poverty-stricken communities hit by flooding or drought are too busy looking for food to rebuild the infrastructure that’s so vital for redevelopment.

WFP/Guido Dingemans
WFP/Eulalia Berlanga

With Food for Assets, WFP provides lifesaving food in exchange for work on community assets like roads, dams and irrigation systems. The community-centered approach has extra benefits like promoting nutrition, gender equality and social protection.

Benefits to Rural Farmers Around the World

WFP/Guido Dingemans

Mozambique

Women farmers in Mozambique tend to their cassava crops as part of a seed multiplication project. The project was implemented to build their harvest’s resilience to climate change.

A woman places a pile of dirt and mud from a basket onto the embankment that she and other participants are raising WFP USA/D. Johnson for HUMAN

Bangladesh

Villagers in Bangladesh build and raise an embankment to protect their land and homes from intense monsoon floods. The participants receive food and cash assistance from WFP in return for their work.

You can help people build resilience by equipping them with tools they need to be successful and self-reliant, year after year.

Drivable roads facilitate commerce and strengthen local livelihoods. Clean water and sanitation systems cut rates of disease and allow people to safely prepare meals. Harvesting rainwater, terracing crops, and other sustainable practices reduce the negative impact of future natural disasters. Together, this work helps people build resilience and reduces the likelihood they’ll need humanitarian assistance if catastrophe strikes again.

Food for Assets will be more essential than ever in the years to come as climate change intensifies the effects of natural disasters.

South Sudan. Deng Angui working on a road WFP/Eulalia Berlanga/2021

Stories of Community Change

Through WFP’s Food For Assets program:

all-terrain vehicle in grassy field WFP/Hugh Rutherford

10 Quick Facts on Global Hunger and the United Nations World Food Programme’s Life-Changing Work

WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua

Top 12 Things You Didn’t Know About the World Food Programme

WFP/Mohammad Hasib Hazinyar/2024

Spring Impact: An Update on WFP’s Response to the Global Hunger Crisis

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