Special Interest: Food Security
Nutrition is one of the greatest investments we can make. Here's why.
The United Nations World Food Programme’s emergency response to the Syria crisis is its largest and most complex operation to date.
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.
In order to adequately nourish today’s 795 million hungry people as well as the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050, we will need to profoundly change our global food system so everyone has a seat at the table.
Hunger exists not because there isn’t enough food to go around—the problem is a lack of access. Without the means to grow or purchase food, people in communities across the globe are stuck in a cycle of poverty and hunger.
This is what it takes to achieve a hunger-free world.
In the past 25 years, the number of undernourished people has dropped by 216 million. Yet there is still a huge opportunity to reach more hungry families.