The path for innovation in 2025 remains bright.

Around the globe, WFP colleagues are saving and changing lives through innovation. To many, innovation is about solving problems and fostering an environment for change.

From embedding innovation throughout the organization to finding new collaborations to catalyse innovation beyond WFP, our 2024 marked great strides amidst great challenges.

To reflect on this year of change, our team came together to ideate and plan what comes next. Our focus remains on improving lives through impactful innovation. We are excited to put our plans into action with all of our collaborators and innovators.

What does innovation mean to you in 2025?

Innovation updates

• Artificial Intelligence was a dominating topic at the World Economic Forum in January, where WFP was present. Head of the WFP Innovation Accelerator, Bernhard Kowatsch, joined a panel of thought leaders to discuss the topic 'Can AI end hunger?'. Bernhard also joined the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) to explore how blockchain can tackle global challenges.

• Displacement Watch is an advanced analytics platform offering real-time insights into global displacement and crises, helping WFP better understand needs and deliver aid more effectively.

• Thousands of farmers in Kenya are fighting back against striga, a parasitic plant devastating farmland in sub-Saharan Africa, with an environmentally friendly fungal bioherbicide produced by Toothpick, supported by the WFP Innovation Accelerator and Farm to Market Alliance.

• Discover how water is made from air, how to scale off-grid refrigeration, how to harness sunlight for optimal food production and how to use data to improve anticipatory action in conflict settings in the Stability-and-Peace Accelerator pitch event.

• For the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, we showed how INITIATE demonstrates how strong collaboration can build new emergency health response solutions.

• The UN Advisory Alliance is helping the Farm to Market Alliance, an alumnus of our Scale-Up Enablement programme, develop a rice pilot in Tanzania and a project road map to scale.

• Jangala was selected as part of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster's Global Partner Network.

Join us live on 13 February for the WFP Innovation Forum, where eight visionary startups and social entrepreneurs, backed by WFP, will present their groundbreaking solutions to tackle food insecurity. Register here.

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The WFP Innovation Accelerator team