When Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti last month, the storm ravaged its southern coast and left hundreds of thousands of families without food, shelter and clean water. But its devastation only tells part of the story.
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.
In hard-to-reach areas of the war-torn state, children are suffering from a level of malnutrition that has left almost half of all children countrywide “irreversibly stunted.”
This World Food Day, Think About A Changing Climate
We must create a world where people have better access to a safe, plentiful and nutritious food supply and less food is wasted.
WFP Successfully Reached The “Four Towns” In Syria This
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.
Achieving a lasting peace agreement and making life-saving gains in nutrition among women and children make these two countries promising areas for new collaboration and investment.
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.
