For the Cost of Your Thanksgiving Dinner, You Can Feed a Hungry Child With School Meals for a Year

These seven food and hunger facts will make you do a double take the next time you tune into the Macy’s parade or push through the Black Friday crowds.  

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How to Find the Best Charities to Donate This Giving Tuesday

Here are six tips to help you find a charity to give to this season. And to no surprise, we’ll let you know exactly how World Food Program USA meets all the qualifications for the kind of organization you can trust with your hard-earned money.  

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3 Things You May Not Know About Famine — and How to Prevent it

A staggering 45 million people in 43 countries are teetering on the brink of famine, with immediate action needed to avert huge loss of life. 

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How Food Waste Affects World Hunger

Humans - and our food systems - waste a staggering amount of food. It’s a global mess, and one we need to face head on if we’re going to win the fight against hunger.

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The Ruins of Roda’s Teashop: “Violence Destroyed My Hometown, My Shop… And Now There Is No Water”

When violence broke out in Roda's hometown of Gumuruk, the local market was stripped down with her teashop in tow. In one day, Roda lost all the investment that she had worked so hard to build over a year.

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Why the U.N.’s ‘Code Red’ Climate Change Warning Is Already a Reality for Many

"People affected by the climate crisis do not have the luxury to wait until the world’s changed course on greenhouse gas emissions."

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WFP in South Sudan Reaches Communities Battered by Third Year of Floods; Build Roads and Dykes to Help People Recover

WFP is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan.

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WFP Warns of Countdown to Catastrophe as Severe Hunger Reaches New Peak

WFP warns today hat the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as severe hunger spikes around the world.

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$6.6 Billion Dollars Won’t End World Hunger, but It Could Save the 42 Million People Knocking on Famine’s Door

$6.6 billion would reel 42 million people back from the precipice, by providing a meal a day for the next year. Without immediate emergency food assistance, they will face starvation.

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How WFP Demonstrates Accountability and Transparency

Trust among donors, partners and supporters is key to the success of WFP's work - being an open book is how we maintain it. 

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COP26: “To Fix the Climate Crisis We Must Address Broken Food Systems”

WFP's Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Chief Gernot Laganda on the common solution to two great problems: the climate crisis and global hunger.

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What Is COP26? What You Need to Know About the United Nations Climate Change Summit, and How It Connects to Hunger

The climate crisis impacts all parts of the global food system – from production to consumption. COP26 is a critical moment for global powers to meet and urgently tackle the impacts of climate change.

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