The key to ending malnutrition isn’t a mystery, nor does it require any high-tech innovation. It starts with the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. And it starts with the mother.
The WFP chief voiced fears about famine looming in several countries at the same time as COVID-19 is ravaging communities around the globe.
School meals, often the one nutritious daily meal that children get, must be prioritized in school reopening plans.
WFP never abandons hope. We’re applying it in spades to roll back one of the most severe hunger catastrophes in our six decades of existence.
With malnutrition rates spiraling and children forced to beg to help their families eat, urgent action is needed to prevent a crisis.
Most of us would have to strain to imagine what life would be like if 80 percent of all the people around us were in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. For the people of Yemen, that is the relentless reality.
Conflict, floods and COVID-19 are pushing more people into extreme hunger.
As we move into the next decade, we need to re-imagine how we do our work. What technologies and approaches could we develop in the future to solve humanitarian crises?
Conflict-ridden Burkina Faso is one of four nations teetering on the brink of famine. The Hilton Foundation’s contribution is critical in addressing urgent hunger here.
This Nobel Peace Prize is more than a thank you. It is a call to action as 270 million people march toward starvation.Â
