Projects
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Grant to the World Food Programme (WFP) to reduce food and income insecurity in Malawi (2017)
Project: Reducing food and income insecurity among vulnerable households in Malawi through climate services and integrated risk management Beneficiary: World Food Programme Amount: 2.500.000 euro Duration: 2017-2019 Flanders supports the World Food Programme (WFP) in protecting farmers in Malawi against the increasing climate challenges. Recent months WFP has paid food and / or cash transfers to 5.8 million Malawians who can not meet their food needs as a result of the drought by the weather phenomenon El Niño. Now, El Niño is over, La Niña will be introduced.
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Project ‘Strengthening Farmer Organisations and Rural Structured Trade Mechanisms in Malawi’ (2014)
Project: ‘Strengthening Farmer Organisations and Rural Structured Trade Mechanisms in Malawi’ Beneficiary: World Food Programme Duration: 2014-2018 Budget: 2.999.140,62€ The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) join forces to implement this project. In 2009 the WFP launched the Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme to help smallholder farmers and their organisations gain access to the WFP market by linking WFP’s demand for basic food to the supply of smallholder farmers.
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Cooperation agreement between Flanders and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 2012 - 2014
Duration: 2012-2014 Budget: 3.000.000 In 2011, the Government of Flanders decided to extend the aid to the World Food Programme (WFP) structurally. Since 2008, the Government of Flanders has already granted specific support to the country programmes of WFP in Malawi and Mozambique. The current aid covers the period from 2012 to 2014. Duration and budget The contribution for the period 2012 to 2014 amounts to three million euros. Problem definition Between 2007 and 2009, the number of undernourished people rose sharply, reaching the sad peak of more than one billion people in 2009.
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Grant for emergency aid to monitor food shortage in Malawi (2015)
Project: emergency aid for food crisis in Malawi Beneficiary: World Food Programme Amount: 208.149 euro Duration: 2015 - 2016 In Malawi an estimated 2.8 million people are threated by a food shortage will be through the combination of floods and severe drought caused by a severe El Niño, a climate phenomenon that is caused by an abnormal warming of the seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific. Together with the international community, the Malawian government addresses this situation with a national action plan.