Annual Country Report 2020: China. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Annual Country Report 2020: China. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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In response to the COVID-19 crisis around the world, WFP worked extensively with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chinese private sector to launch a temporary logistics hub in China to support the global supply chain for medical and other critical items. This work, led by the Supply Chain Division in WFP's Rome Headquarters, enabled more than 80 percent of the global cargo of the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot system to be processed in China, making a major contribution to the COVID-19 response in dozens of countries. In support of the Chinese Government's commitment to reducing malnutrition among children, WFP worked to expand its pre-school nutrition programme to include kindergartens and pre-schools in Gansu, while continuing the previously-established work in Hunan and Guangxi, which reached more than 4,000 children with school meals and generated 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, with a focus on women, reaching key milestones in the projects on zinc-rich potatoes and on support to kiwi farmers. The WFP China Centre of Excellence worked to enhance South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) with China through 2020.

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