Ugly Veggies Destined for the Dump Now Feed Thousands of Students

Vegetables that were previously thrown away purely for their looks are being transformed into nutritious school meals in Kenya.

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How You Can Fight Famine and Share a Meal With a Child in Yemen

How You Can Fight Famine for Children in Yemen

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How A Smartphone App Can Help Us Fight Famine

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.

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Hacking Hunger – Episode 11: Pinpointing Hunger with Mobile Phones

In this episode, we talk to the founder of WFP's mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) unit about how mobile phones in the most remote and dangerous corners of our world are changing how we understand and fight hunger.

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Pinpointing Hunger with Mobile Phones

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.

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Hacking Hunger – Episode 8: 7 Million Meals and Counting

At a time when smartphone users outnumber the world’s hungry children by 20 to 1, humanitarian organizations are crowdsourcing creative ideas to harness technology in the fight against global hunger.

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Marouf’s Home Is Not In Jordan

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.

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How Cell Phones Can Help End World Hunger

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 […]

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Why Clean Water Is Crucial for Solving Hunger

Allan Jury, VP of public policy at WFP USA, explains why food and water are inseparably linked in the fight to end global hunger.

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9 Things To Know About WFP’s E-Cards

For 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, WFP's e-cards are a vital source of food — and hope — so far from home.

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