Director of Nutrition @WFP Working to address #malnutrition and achieve a world with #ZeroHunger.
Rome, Italy
Joined April 2023
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Abigail Perry retweeted
Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems are a key solution connecting #climateaction and #nutrition 🌡️🍍
Join this special side event of #COP28 hosted by #EUatCOP28 on Dec 8th!🇪🇺🌍
💻Register here: bit.ly/3sGwxTf
Abigail Perry retweeted
🔁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
Abigail Perry retweeted
📺👇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
Abigail Perry retweeted
⚠️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 ❓👇
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Abigail Perry retweeted
"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)
Abigail Perry retweeted
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. 👶🏾🤰🏻 🍼
Abigail Perry retweeted
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
Abigail Perry retweeted
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
Abigail Perry retweeted
⚠️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-million-mor…
Abigail Perry retweeted
#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)
Abigail Perry retweeted
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🚨
Abigail Perry retweeted
🔸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⬇️
Abigail Perry retweeted
Honoured to be speaking on behalf of @WFP at the launch of The State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World 2023. It shows many countries are confronting hunger and malnutrition crises at levels not seen for decades.
Full @UN report 👉 bit.ly/43mgndS
#SOFI2023 #HLPF
