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ROME: Waking up this morning in this beautiful city of Rome, it is hard to imagine that in about 400 AD this city experienced a massive famine, it ended up killing almost 90% of its population.  Now students of history associate something else with that ancient date:  the beginning of the Fall of the Roman Empire.  Now, did the famine cause the fall?  Or did the f

The African Day of School Feeding was instituted in January 2016 through Decision Assembly /AU/Dec. 589 (XXVI) by African Union Heads of State and Government in recognition of the immense value of home-grown school feeding (HGSF).

While one of the lesser-known cuisines of South Asia, Pakistani food is rich in variety and tradition.

International Women's Day on Sunday 8 March provides an opportunity to highlight the vital role of women in helping achieve zero hunger. For related stories visit Insight.wfp.org. By the Logistics Cluster #Generation Equality in Humanitarian Logistics This year's theme for International Women's Day is I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights.

by Elizabeth Bryant BANGUI, Central African Republic — Cradling her 2-week-old son in one arm, Adeline Ngoungoudro, 35, scoops up the mosquito net offered as part of a child vaccination drive.

Since the start of the conflict in Yemen five years ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) has gone from feeding 1 million people a month to over 12 million. The threat of famine, so far averted by the huge humanitarian response, still looms over the country.

Every day through my work with WFP I meet women from different parts of Egypt. They have different backgrounds but they all share one thing: a determination to defy the circumstances they were born in and to make tomorrow a better day for themselves and their children.