Special Interest: Food Security
Hunger claims the lives of more than 3 million children each year. 45 percent of deaths among children under age 5 are caused by malnutrition. Nutrition during the first 1,000 days determines the course of a child's life, and in time, shapes the fate of our planet.
More than half of the world’s hungry people are farmers in rural areas who tend fields of five acres or less. Giving female farmers equal access to resources could reduce the number of people living in hunger and poverty by 100-150 million.
Africa’s small-scale farmers lose up to 40% of all the food they harvest. Today, 320,000 farmers across Africa, over half of which are women, participate in WFP’s Zero Food Loss Initiative.
We need “a systemwide transformation” in the way we live, work, govern and grow our food. It's no small task.
Africa’s smallholder families lose up to 40 percent of their harvest to insects, rodents and mould. But a simple solution can virtually eliminate such losses and improve families’ incomes, food availability, health and nutrition.
There's been a lot of news about migrant flows from Central America to the United States. Here's a look at how communities in the Dry Corridor are forced to choose: adapt to a changing climate, or leave.
Chase Sova, WFP USA sr. director of public policy, gives a brief history of the fight against global hunger.
#RecipeForDisaster: Join the Movement!
The monsoon season sets new challenges for people living in camps on the Bangladesh border.
Since 2013, 400,000 people have been trapped in a besieged area of Syria without reliable access to food and medicine.
One of the most overlooked drivers of today’s unprecedented global refugee crisis is one we can all relate to: Food.
By clicking on the large yellow button, users can give from a day’s worth of meals—just 50 cents—to a year’s worth of food assistance.