50% of food assistance funds goes to nutrition ( nutrition-specific or sensitive interventions in food crises contexts, with a focus on undernutrition and in particular in the first thousand days of life).

Half of food assistance funds goes to nutrition

To tackle food crises, France implements food assistance in line with the provisions of the Food Assistance Convention and France's international strategy for food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture for the 2019–2024 period. According to this strategy, France aims each year to devote half of its food assistance funding to nutrition. The amount of this funding is decided one year ahead and changes each year depending on the Parliament’s vote on the budget. The amount of food assistance funding has been increasing regularly (it was €39 million in 2019 and €90 million in 2021). Each French food assistance project is scored using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nutrition policy marker (0 to 2).

Actions for nutrition should be centred on pregnant and lactating women and children before the age of 2 years according to the key 1000 days period. As much as possible, actions should address different causes of malnutrition.