Annual Country Report 2019: China. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Annual Country Report 2019: China. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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In 2019, WFP China expanded the implementation of its Country Strategic Plan for 2017-2021 (CSP) and made significant progress in partnership-building, south-south cooperation, and domestic pilot programming. In pursuit of reduced malnutrition among children in selected poverty counties, WFP expanded its pre-school nutrition programme to include kindergartens and pre-schools in both Hunan and Guangxi, reaching more than 4,500 children with school meals and generating evidence for the positive outcomes of well-designed pre-school nutrition programmes. WFP also continued work to enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in rural areas, launching a project on zinc-rich potatoes in addition to the previously-launched project in support of kiwi farmers; 6,600 poor small householder farmers benefit directly from these interventions. The WFP China Centre of Excellence worked to enhance South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) with China through 2019. WFP’s work to enhance partnerships and leverage resources for food security and nutrition also progressed during 2019. WFP was able to raise USD 22.9 million in contributions from the China International Development Cooperation Agency for food assistance in many countries. WFP and Alibaba together launched the “Hunger Map LIVE” , a ground-breaking global hunger monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to predict and track the magnitude and severity of hunger in over 90 countries in close to real-time.

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