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.
On July 6, 2016 the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 1252, the Global Food Security Act (GFSA), by a vote of 369 to 53. Its passage signals a consequential bipartisan victory in the fight to end global hunger.
As humanitarian crises and climate change raise demands on urban areas, a host of interventions in Africa can help rural producers rise to the challenge
Learn about the different types of food assistance WFP provides to people in need.
Today’s political world can feel completely divided along party lines. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program is a shining example of what can be achieved when we put parties aside.
“When children arrive at school hungry after walking up to three kilometers, they cannot concentrate or assimilate what is being taught,” said Sergio Torres, head of WFP’s Bolivia operations.
Almost four years after fleeing Syria, he and his family struggle to reconcile the life they didn’t ask for with the one they left behind.
For the second year in a row, Central America has suffered a devastating drought that has pushed tens of thousands of people into hunger. Learn how WFP is responding.
Mutinta Hambayi works for WFP in Malawi. Here she talks about her work as a nutritionist, some of the biggest misconceptions about her job and what she finds
