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The coronavirus is threatening millions of people already vulnerable due to food insecurity, malnutrition and the effects of conflict, climate change and other disasters. The World Food Programme (WFP) is working around the clock to maintain food-assistance programmes which offer a lifeline to 87 million people.

By Lena Savelli Morning's barely broken when women start arriving at the primary school in Saré Bidji, an arrondissement in the southern region of Kolda in Senegal — plastic jerry cans, filled to the brim with water, balanced on their heads.

By Tatenda Macheka I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, where more than half of the population— 7.7 million people — are currently struggling to feed themselves because of the ongoing drought. The country's culture and history are part of me. When Zimbabwe experienced the El Niño-effect drought in 2016, I was working for WFP as a communications assistant.

Seven-year-old Peter Mabor has seen the same plane so many times that he has built his own toy version from mud, and mimics the aircraft's movements as it flies low and begins to drop its load. Here in Ganyiel they call the aircraft gwad, meaning "large wings". "It is white.

The first time you meet Jenna Lusaka and start chatting about work, it doesn't take long to figure out one thing: for Jenna, logistics is more than just a job. "Anyone can be a logistician but not everyone can do the job well. Being a good logistician comes from having a love of it.

This article is part of a series to mark the World Food Programme (WFP) receiving the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize in Rome on 10 December. Click here to watch 'The People's Prize' event on Facebook  The Training and Reincorporation Centre may sound forbidding but it’s a place where former combatants in Colombia’s conflicts can learn poultry and fish farming with the suppo

Everyone in Gaza is hungry and each day is a desperate search for food. People often go the entire day and night without eating. Adults go hungry so children can eat. According to the latest data, the risk of famine increases each day as the conflict limits the delivery of life saving humanitarian assistance to people in need.

Three consecutive years of drought coupled with a sharp recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a third of the population in Southern Madagascar struggling to put food on the table. With severe malnutrition rates continuing to spiral and many children forced to beg in order to help their families eat, urgent action is required to prevent a humanitarian crisis.

For more than nine years, families in Aleppo have struggled under the weight of intense conflict, uncertain futures and the knowledge that the road to rebuilding their lives will be a long one. In February, the skies above Aleppo fell silent at last — peace had finally arrived after years of conflict devastated the city. Then in March, coronavirus struck.

Hunger is cruel to everyone, but it's not completely blind. Women — especially in times of war — are more at risk from the suffering it creates. Women eat last and they eat least.