Country: Lebanon Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file. KEY MESSAGES• WFP leverages its technical expertise, data analytics, and evidence-based programming to foster inclusive, sustainable and resilient food systems.• WFP preserves food system functionality and protects food consumption by providing cash or food assistance to crisis affected people, sustaining markets and limiting negative coping mechanisms.• WFP supports recovery and long-term solutions by strengthening the capacities of SMEs to scale local alternatives to imports and enhance community resilience to climate shocks.• WFP advances government-led efforts by scaling up social protection and school feeding, linking consumption to local production and strengthening national capacities for handover.CONTEXTLebanon is facing a deepening food insecurity crisis. Recent hostilities disrupted livelihoods, displaced families, and strained already overstretched communities. Vital agricultural areas like the Bekaa and South regions suffered from production losses due to land contamination caused by military activities. This crisis is intensified by ongoing economic instability, heavy reliance on food imports, widespread poverty, and soaring food prices.Inefficient value chains, limited market access for smallholder farmers, and environmental degradation, exacerbated by climate change, further weaken Lebanon’s fragile food system.The Government of Lebanon prioritizes food systems transformation, as outlined in the National Pathway for Food Systems Transformation, which focuses on boosting local production of nutritious foods, restoring ecosystems, expanding school feeding, and enhancing nutrition-sensitive social protection. Urgent, multi-sector solutions are needed to tackle the root causes of food insecurity and build a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food system.