Programs: Small-scale Farmers
One of the cruelest ironies of hunger is its disproportionate impact on small-scale farmers. The United Nations World Food Programme provides them with training and tools to grow their businesses.
Cooking Ancestral Quinoa in Colombia
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.
If women farmers had the same access to resources - like capital, markets and training - as their male counterparts, the number of hungry people worldwide could drop by nearly 20 percent.
On this episode, WFP USA's vice president of public policy, debunks some of the pernicious myths about global hunger and explains how WFP is making progress in the fight to end hunger.
WPF USA Board Member Dan Glickman urges farmers and policymakers to acknowledge climate change so we can be better equipped for its effects in the future.
On a recent trip to Tanzania, I met a group of women who farmed vegetables for a living near the village of Mlandizi on the country’s east coast. As they were telling me about their operation, the unexpected ring of a cell phone interrupted us. In a village where most people live below the poverty […]
We're equipping women like this hard working matriarch with the most basic tool of survival and success: Good nutrition.
This World Food Day, WFP USA editorial director MJ Altman is toasting the farmers who her food while remembering the 800 million hungry people worldwide.
Comfort Kissiwaa is a Ghanaian mother of five, wife, farmer—and now the manager of a community bank and champion of her community’s development—thanks to her participation in The Hunger Project’s local ownership initiatives. With a small loan and women’s empowerment training, Comfort was able to expand her farming business and increase her annual income from […]