Global food crisis: Switzerland pledges an additional 14.5 million Swiss francs to United Nations World Food Programme
Around 350 million people worldwide are currently affected by acute hunger and dependent on food aid. In response to the worsening food crisis, President of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis has approved additional funding of 14.5 million Swiss francs for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). This increases Switzerland’s 2022 contribution to the WFP to over 100 million.
Switzerland has committed additional funds to the WFP. 13 million Swiss francs will go to the Immediate Response Account (IRA), the WFP’s emergency relief fund. The IRA can rapidly deliver needs-based assistance to the most vulnerable communities where it is most urgently needed in countries such as Afghanistan, Mozambique and Nigeria. A further 1.5 million is earmarked for the Ukrainian government’s “Grain f...