Abigail Perry

In #SouthSudan @WFPChief visits our nutrition team where 1000s arrive daily fleeing war in Sudan. 1 in 4 children in Renk transit centre are malnourished. @WFP has reached more than 128,600 children & mothers with nutrition services & more than 429,860 people with food assistance

Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems are a key solution connecting #climateaction and #nutrition 🌡️🍍
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🔁Poverty & malnutrition perpetuate each other in cycles repeating across generations. 👇@WFP Director of Nutrition @_AbigailPerry on why the UK-hosted Global Food Security Summit is a crucial opportunity to find ways to do things differently. ✅Progress is possible. #GFSS23

🚨Early action to prevent acute malnutrition is essential. Investments in nutrition catalyse improvements in health, education, poverty reduction and resilience. #GFSS23

📺👇Last week we co-hosted an event in the UK Parliament with @UNICEF_uk, @savechildrenuk & @APPGNutrition. 📢With the Global Food Security Summit taking place 1 week today, we need urgent action to end the hunger and #malnutrition crisis. #GFSS23

⚠️Right now #malnutrition affects at least 1 out of 3 people globally. Today we co-led an event in the UK Parliament to: ❗️Raise the alarm on the global nutrition crisis 💡Share effective solutions ✊Call for leadership Why ❓👇 (1/3)

"Nutrition is a keystone for everything we want ODA to achieve." Today, our chairs @DavidMundellDCT and @Lord_Collins were proud to co-host an event on the UK's role in preventing and treating global #malnutrition. 🧵 (1/6)

Canada is an important partner for @WFP and our #nutrition work. As I am in Ottawa this week, I look forward to meeting with colleagues & partners to strengthen those partnerships and work together to ensure that we can provide nutrition services to those most in need.

It’s #WorldBreastfeedingWeek! 🌍🤱🏽💫 Breastfeeding prevents hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, and has greater health benefits for parent and baby. WFP protects, supports and promotes breastfeeding around the world. 👶🏾🤰🏻 🍼

During the #UNFSS2023 Leadership Dialogue on "Food Systems for People", @Karima_AlHadaa highlighted the importance of localizing #FoodSystems in conflict and fragile settings to prioritize #nutrition, build resilience, ensure affordability and diversity of diets. (2/2)

Great to meet @Karima_AlHadaa, Yemen Shadow National Convener and @SUN_Movement ExCom member, here at #UNFSS2023. (1/2)

While thought leaders & non-state actors spotlighted policy changes needed to ensure access to healthy diets for all, esp vulnerable groups. These included discussions on fiscal tools, ESG investing, localizing food systems, school meals, multi-sectoral legislations etc.(3/3)

The #UNFSS2023 leadership dialogue provided a pivotal platform for government representatives to discuss successful country-led policy actions and programmes that improved the availability and affordability of healthy foods in their respective countries. (2/3)

Honored to moderate the UN @FoodSystems Summit Leadership Dialogue today with @Branca59 and @vaguayounicef on "Food Systems for People" and hearing why healthy diets need to be at the center of policies and programs (1/3) #UNFSS2023 #FoodSystems

During her #UNFSS23 leadership dialogue @FoodSystems, our Executive Committee member @_AbigailPerry discussed the policies that have the potential to deliver nutritious, sustainable and affordable diets for everyone today. 👉ow.ly/osy450PkoHZ

What policies have the potential to deliver nutritious, sustainable and affordable diets for everyone? Tune in to today's UN @FoodSystems Summit with WFP's Abigail Perry, Director of Nutrition, to learn more: bit.ly/43GpHtn #UNFSS2023

⚠️The capacity of people to access healthy diets has deteriorated across the world. When food prices rise, families struggling financially often drop nutritious foods first from their diets, impacting children, women and girls the most. New report here🔗wfp.org/news/122-milli…

#Nutrition is core to international development, and core to saving lives -- co-chair @Lord_Collins chaired an insightful discussion today on preventing acute malnutrition with @WFP Director of Nutrition @_AbigailPerry ➡️ Read on to find out more 🧵(1/6)

Today @WFP partnered with @APPGNutrition, @savechildrenuk, @ConcernUK & @RESCUE_UK to convene a crucial discussion with parliamentarians on #malnutrition prevention. 🚨The UK can drive forward action to tackle acute malnutrition by enhancing its investments in prevention🚨

🔸The #SOFI2023 report revealed that nearly 1 in 10 of us faced hunger last year. 🔸With high food prices, conflicts, and climate extremes, failing to act today will deepen the crisis of tomorrow. WFP's @_AbigailPerry explains⬇️