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World Food Programme and UNICEF call on governments to act on nutrition crisis as Covid-19 school closures reduce the diets of 370 million of the most vulnerable children by 40 percent

In supplying meals to help children learn better in Timbuktu, the World Food Programme supports food producers and retailers in northern Mali

In Bweremana, North Kivu, a project backed by the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is teaching people skills they missed out on at school

World Food Programme calls for more than US$130m to reach displaced people and host communities on the brink

World Food Programme and UNHCR respond as 500 hundred shelters go up in flames 

Conditions such as wasting in children up as poverty caused by coronavirus restrictions hits mothers' access to nutritious food

Cash assistance paid in advance of floods in the south is a lifeline for devastated villagers

Lack of funds and obstacles on the ground lead to increasing hunger for millions of Yemenis

World Food Programme calls for emergency funds as delayed rains and COVID-19 restrictions push more than 1 million people into extreme poverty

With four countries on the brink of catastrophe, Margot van der Velden urges the world to step up

What a year it's been—below, a selection of our favourite stories to usher in 2021

As conflict continues in Syria, the European Union and the World Food Programme are stepping in to help displaced families such as Um Ali's

The World Food Programme is responding as conflict and diseases push more people into hunger

A look back at the year in which WFP stepped up to unprecedented challenges and fed 100 million people in 88 countries

Players kick off 'Stop the Waste' Campaign, highlighting the impact of food waste on global hunger

As a child, she received emergency nutritional support from the World Food Programme where she is now a monitor helping Burundian refugees

As the World Food Programme receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, WFP veteran and Country Director in Chad Claude Jibidar reflects on the link between conflict and hunger, food and peace

Watch live event to mark WFP's acceptance of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

UN agency in call for funds—and peace—to avert a deepening humanitarian crisis

Accessing communities helped the World Food Programme and its partners  to respond to November's floods

Stalled peace and instability are creating a bleak future for the newest country in the world

For generations, people have suffered conflict and violence—now, projects teaching former combatants and victims how to produce food are showing the way

World Food Programme at hand as people worry about their next meal and conflict continues

World Food Programme staff in a country with a history of conflict reflect on their roles on the front lines

As the World Food Programme is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Abdulaziz Abdulmomin speaks to Susana from South Sudan