Rome: From a smartphone app delivering market prices to Guatemalan farmers to online nutrition tips in rural Colombia, the push to end hunger has entered a new era with the U.N. food agency deploying the latest technology to fight it.
The World Food Programme's (WFP) new innovation hub, launched in Munich this week with the support of the German government, will seek out new technologies to help reach the goal of zero hunger faster.
In September the United Nations adopted an ambitious new set of global goals, called the Sustainable Development Goals, to end hunger, poverty advance equality and protect the environment by 2030.
Although the number of people going to bed hungry has fallen by 167 million over the last decade, almost 800 million people worldwide are not getting enough to eat, according to the United Nations figures.
The launch of WFP's 'Innovation Accelerator' is one element in the drive to end hunger, said Opp.
Among the ideas Opp's team is already developing is AgriUp, a low bandwidth application for smallholder farmers in Guatemala, which provides location-specific information including farming tips, market prices and weather forecasts.
For now WFP is mainly relying on ideas generated within the organisation, but in future may look at crowdsourcing new innovations to help end hunger, Opp said.
The World Food Programme's (WFP) new innovation hub, launched in Munich this week with the support of the German government, will seek out new technologies to help reach the goal of zero hunger faster.
In September the United Nations adopted an ambitious new set of global goals, called the Sustainable Development Goals, to end hunger, poverty advance equality and protect the environment by 2030.
Although the number of people going to bed hungry has fallen by 167 million over the last decade, almost 800 million people worldwide are not getting enough to eat, according to the United Nations figures.
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The launch of WFP's 'Innovation Accelerator' is one element in the drive to end hunger, said Opp.
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Among the ideas Opp's team is already developing is AgriUp, a low bandwidth application for smallholder farmers in Guatemala, which provides location-specific information including farming tips, market prices and weather forecasts.
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For now WFP is mainly relying on ideas generated within the organisation, but in future may look at crowdsourcing new innovations to help end hunger, Opp said.
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