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 food assistance funds for nutrition

To tackle food crises, France implements food assistance in line with the provisions of the London 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 at devoting half of its food assistance funding to nutrition. The amount of this funding changes each year, and is decided one year ahead depending on Parliament voting the budget. The amount of food assistance funding has been regularly increasing (39 million EUR in 2019, 90 million EUR in 2021). Each French food assistance project is scored using the OECD nutrition policy marker (0 to 2). This objective to devote 50% of food assistance funds to nutrition was set in the strategy launched in 2019, which will end in 2024.

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