Stories

With World Food Programme support, Abdulkader Akkam rehabilitated four bakeries for vulnerable people in Aleppo

As the world commemorates women's month, we ask women in South Sudan about what equality means to them.

The conflict in Syria is entering its tenth year. Nahi, a humanitarian working for a World Food Programme partner organization in the northwest, describes the situation as close to one million people have been forced from their homes in the largest wave of displacement since December.

The drought in Zimbabwe is not only making food and water scarce — it is eroding hope itself

Nutritious to the core, beans, lentils and co are a key part of WFP food assistance — and take centre stage on World Pulses Day

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Six families from around the world describe how assistance from the World Food Programme is changing their lives

A WFP-supported partnership tackles deadly malaria, HIV and tuberculosis epidemics in a fragile nation

Increasing violence is affecting communities and humanitarian efforts in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Near real-time monitoring of food security situation in more than 90 countries set to inform better decisions.

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 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