Special Interest: Policy
Senator Bob Dole challenges the international community to take action against the famines threatening multiple countries.
Graduate students participated in a global competition designed to simulate the challenges and competing interests that confront policymakers every day.
Ash Koseiwicz, WFP USA sr. communications manager, explains America's incredible legacy of fighting global hunger.
The WFP school meals Peter Mumo received as a child in Kenya changed his life.
On July 6, 2016 the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 1252, the Global Food Security Act (GFSA), by a vote of 369 to 53. Its passage signals a consequential bipartisan victory in the fight to end global hunger.
This Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating how the Greatest Generation tackled global hunger in the autumn of 1947. That year, concerned citizens across the U.S. started the tradition of setting aside a plate at their Thanksgiving tables for a “silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.
We're joined today by Roger Thurow, an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled across the globe reporting on food security, agriculture and humanitarian issues.
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.
Safety nets protect poor and vulnerable people during times of sudden crisis. Heather Hanson, WFP USA VP of public policy, and David Lauck, AVP for hunger and livelihoods at Save the Children, discuss.
For young children, good nutrition enables the body to grow and develop to its full potential. Studies show that well-nourished children are more likely to succeed in the classroom and earn higher wages as adults than their malnourished peers.