India’s Food System Transformation Drives Global Hunger Solutions as WFP Faces Funding Drop

India has gone from being a food-deficient nation to being a major international provider, therefore becoming a vital ally for the World Food Programme (WFP) at a period when Western donor money has dropped precipitously. India's policies and ability are currently perceived as conflict, climate crises, and a 40% reduction in significant UN food aid budget push up world hunger. as necessary to support global humanitarian demands. 
 
 The United Nations WFP has highlighted that India’s innovations in food distribution, including grain ATMs and large-scale rice fortification, are being rolled out in humanitarian crises from Africa to the Middle East. The WFP is signing an agreement to make India a predictable supplier of fortified rice for rapid response in emergencies, using India’s surplus production and logistics efficiency. With its National Food Security Act and school meal schemes, India’s model is already inspiring replication by other developing countries. 
 
 Working with the WFP, India is sharing expertise in digital food supply chains and smart warehousing that has delivered tens of millions of US dollars in savings and improved aid quality in countries like Ethiopia and Sudan. As traditional aid sources from OECD countries decline, the WFP is also looking to India’s growing international influence to open diplomatic access for humanitarian deliveries in conflict zones like Gaza, Yemen, and Afghanistan. 
 
 Yet the global outlook is worsening: assistance in some countries has been reduced to famine-prevention only, and climate disruption and war threaten millions more with hunger. The WFP stresses that partnership with India and similar rising powers is now essential for tackling the scale of need and warns that global zero hunger targets are at risk without new approaches and resources. With India’s private sector and citizens also called on to help, its food transformation is now central to the fight against global hunger.