Stories

WFP Global Hotspots 2020 highlights countries and regions where rapid assistance and investment are most needed

With nearly 8 million — half the country's population — severely food-insecure, WFP is calling for urgent investment to double the number of people it assists

Awá and Afro communities on the border are teaming up to protect the shellfish supplies they depend on to live

Conflict and climate change are pushing hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes — and into hunger

How the World Food Programme helped one woman in Bolivia revive land lost to floods — and make a Christmas feast

International Criminal Court Statute jurisdiction expanded to war crime of starvation in non-international conflicts, enhancing ability to reach those in need of food assistance

A musical in Lagos, backed by WFP, tells the story of two displaced girls who pick up the skills to rebuild their lives

Threat of hunger looms unless food assistance is scaled up

As COP25 draws to a close in Madrid, WFP's climate chief unpacks the thinking behind ‘Restore, Protect and Anticipate'

The extraordinary journey of Nenad Grkovic, from receiving World Food Programme (WFP) assistance during a civil war, to saving and changing lives through innovative logistics solutions.

The country is teetering on the brink as people struggle to find clean drinking water, medicines and nutritious food

The World Food Programme is implementing an array of measures to face up to the region's challenges

An interview with WFP's programme policy officer Itaru Furuta

WFP staffer Huda Abouh Mohamed Ali recalls the perils of being a humanitarian under challenging circumstances

WFP is responding to the worst flooding along the Ubangi river since 1999, with 50,000 displaced

From growing vegetables in the desert to digital training that allows refugees to continue working wherever they are living

WFP's director of emergencies, Margot van der Velden, calls for urgent investment to stem a deepening disaster

A peek into Mahama Camp where around 60,000 people who've escaped neighbouring countries gain the skills to start a new life

Face to face with conflict, drought and floods as climate change exacerbates weather extremes

World Food Programme responds to mass displacement of people in northeast Syria

Training in handling harvests to reduce spoiling is ushering subsistence farming towards agribusiness

A visit to Tanzania's logistics hubs highlights the role of warehouses in the fight against hunger

Campaign highlights gross paradox of hunger and food waste

How one corner of Africa's Sahel region is safeguarding gains in resilience while ramping up emergency response

Syrian refugees make their voices heard on the big screen