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One early autumn day in 2015, Chief Information Officer Jakob Kern sat in a reassuringly beige New York conference room, explaining how the aid world's tech teams are turning to data to help feed people.

The Korean government's donation amounts to about 339 metric tons of Immediate Response Rations (IRRs), which can be distributed to 112,000 Ukrainian residents for four months. IRR includes corned beef, kidney beans, vegetable oil and either instant buckwheat, High Energy Biscuits (HEBs) or other components depending on availability lasting for five days.

Thanks to Japan’s generosity, WFP will provide emergency food assistance to nearly 700,000 vulnerable women, children and men affected by the crisis inside Ukraine.

Following a massive scale-up of operations, WFP has provided 330,000 loaves of freshly baked bread to families in the city of Kharkiv, cash assistance to displaced people in Lviv and ready-to-eat food in various parts of the country; WFP emergency food supplies have also made it to the conflict areas of Sumy and Kharkiv through two interagency humanitarian convoys.

“When we saw bombs in our square, the place where I live, where I was born, where I work, it was the minute where I understood what has happened,” says Nina, a university professor who fled Kharkiv for Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, as she struggles to hold back tears. Nina is among 7 million people left internally displaced following the start of the war in Ukraine.

The large-scale, inter-agency event is renowned for its intensity and puts participants in rigorous and realistic emergency scenarios.

It's 7 a.m. in Isaka, northern Tanzania, and everything is bathed in pink gold. To the internally displaced mother in South Sudan, or the Congolese teenager in a refugee camp in southern Tanzania, what's stored in these World Food Programme (WFP) warehouses is more important than any gold. The commodity?

Jakob Kern (pictured above), World Food Programme Country Director in Syria, visited Aleppo where the organization has stepped up support to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians returning to their destroyed homes.