Location: Africa
Lovebirds Poonam Kaushal and Nishkaam Mehta are getting hitched this Valentine’s Day. They’ve teamed up with friends, family and people like you to create the most unconventional wedding gift—with the help of the world’s first hunger-fighting smartphone app.
One in nine people around the world goes to bed hungry every night. And unfortunately, hunger tends to impact the most vulnerable people on the planet—poor communities, small-scale farmers, women and children.
Many children in northeast Nigeria are suffering from malnutrition after losing access to food since fleeing the violent campaign of Boko Haram. Watch this Facebook live stream from an internally displaced persons camp outside Maiduguri to see how the World Food Programme (WFP) is screening and tackling malnutrition.
Season 1 of Hacking Hunger was an experiment that uncovered moments of joy, heartache and the unexpected. M.J. takes a look back at a few of her favorite interviews from Season 1 and shares what’s in store for Season 2 -- and what you can do to help her find hidden, human stories about food on the front lines of hunger.
A three-year drought intensified by El Niño has pushed millions of families across southern Africa—including Madagascar—into hunger.
As the Paris Climate Agreement goes into effect today, climate-smart villages in Senegal are giving small-scale farmers the chance to take action now to adapt to a changing climate.
This World Food Day, Think About A Changing Climate
The WFP school meals Peter Mumo received as a child in Kenya changed his life.
For Peter Mumo, escaping a childhood of hunger and poverty in Kenya began with an empty bowl, a nervous excitement, and the delivery of his very first school meal. These simple meals and the encouragement of his parents would change the trajectory of his life.
One family's move from South Sudan to Darfur in search of food has been told in a video that will be shared during this week's U.N. General Assembly High Level Week, when world leaders come together to discuss migration and refugees. WFP's Jonathan Dumont describes the day he met Apu Riang and his family as they made the long, desperate journey.
When violence or natural disaster strikes vulnerable communities, good data on the hunger that often results can be hard to come by. Learn how mobile phones in the most remote and dangerous corners of our world are changing how we understand and fight hunger.
El Niño has brought devastating drought to southern Africa and caused a second failed harvest that has left many farming families reeling in Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly stepping up life-saving operations for people like Roseby.