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COVID-19 has now reached every country, with nearly 3,596,000 confirmed cases and over 247,650 deaths worldwide. The peak of the disease in the world’s poorest countries is not expected until some point over the next three to six months.

A former member of the US Navy, Lucas Alamprese became a nutritionist as he wanted to do something that would make a difference in people's lives.

In New York in 1997 Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer, made headlines after beating the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov — to whom it had lost a year earlier. The computer's victory fuelled heated debates about ethics and human limits, but also inspired futuristic imaginings of robots taking over the world. Human components — such as labour, regulation and development — are bot

Huda Abouh Mohamed Ali joined WFP in 2004 in West Darfur, where she is currently Field Monitor and Gender Focal Point.

If the World Food Programme were a neighbourhood, the agency's drone pioneers would be the teenage kids.Their speech is nothing like their elders'. No talk of leveraging this, strategizing that. They don't actually sit together: their voices come to me from Thailand, Germany and Panama.

So much of our humanity revolves around food. We make friends over meals, nurture our families, break bread with colleagues.

"Conflict is moving forward and moving fast," says Margot van der Velden, Director of the World Food Programme's (WFP) Emergencies division. She is describing the Central Sahel, a region in Africa including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, where it is estimated 20 million people are living in areas affected by conflict and 2.4 million people are in need of food assistance — a figure that could

The nine-truck convoy, carrying 280 metric tons of food– enough to feed 20,000 people for a month—was loaded in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa and took three days to reach Kapoeta, east of South Sudan’s capital Juba.

The coronavirus pandemic will see more than a quarter of a billion people suffering acute hunger by the end of the year, according to new figures from the World Food Programme (WFP). Latest numbers indicate the lives and livelihoods of 265 million people in low and middle-income countries will be under severe threat unless swift action is taken to tackle the pandemic, up from a current 135

  This story is part of a series to mark the World Food Programme (WFP) receiving the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize in Rome on 10 December.