Ghana: United Kingdom Joins Hands With WFP to Support Food Fortification and School Feeding in Ghana

Accra — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a £500,000 (US$ 628,000) contribution from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support a food fortification programme targeting smallholder farmers, rice millers, and school children in Ghana. With the FCDO funding, WFP will strengthen the capacity of millers to invest in rice fortification in Ghana. The fortified rice will be used to improve the quality of school meals for 55,300 children in 59 primary…