Global hunger isn’t about a lack of food. There’s enough to feed all of us. Unfortunately, one third of all the food produced for humans never actually gets eaten.
We sat down with Bettina Stix, Amazon’s Director of Right Now Needs and Disaster Relief, to learn more about Amazon’s priorities in their humanitarian work and what inspired their partnership with the U.N. World Food Programme.
It’s been over a decade since the conflict in Syria began, and today families are barely hanging on. Meet Syrian women and girls who are doing whatever it takes to survive.
WFP’s forest management interventions are preserving Lebanon’s greenery. At a WFP site in Lebanon, we take a look at Kassem Jouni’s work with earthworms and how these unsung heroes have a lot to offer.
Somalia is once again on the brink of famine: A severe drought, rising food prices and violence has pushed the country to the edge.
mVAM technology enables the U.N. World Food Programme to monitor and respond to changes in food security worldwide.
Girls and boys, men and women are being starved by conflict, inequality, climate, and COVID-19. But there is no place for famine in the 21st century, and history will judge us all by the actions we take today.
Seven incredible women share their experiences of extreme hardship during Ramadan in war-torn Yemen.
Every month Khamisa, who wants to become a doctor, walks from the family shelter to the U.N. World Food Programme distribution centre in Alagaya Camp, White Nile State to collect food for her parents and four siblings. She is one of the 387,000 refugees across Sudan that WFP supported in the first half of 2019. “Home is close by, but it feels so long ago,” Khamisa says.
Make no mistake: COVID-19 has made the hungry hungrier and the poor poorer. But how? What does the next year hold? Chase Sova, WFP USA senior director of public policy and thought leadership, takes a look back at the impact of COVID-19 on global food security and tells you what you need to know.
