Stories

Blockchain enables families to access food assistance using a QR code

Amid the country’s worst drought in decades, World Food Programme support offers a reprieve for farmers and herders

Award-winning donations app reaches milestone in year of record hunger

World Food Programme-backed project allows farmers to harvest chillis, tomatoes and cucumbers in spite of degraded land

How the World Food Programme could change how connectivity is brought to emergencies

The World Food Programme-led Emergency Telecommunications Cluster is connecting people in the Central African Republic

A new report, Digital Foundations, tells the story of how WFP’s organizational mission and values drive our embrace of digital innovation. Here, WFP's Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Executive Director Manoj Juneja explains the progress made to date and why there is still much work to be done.

The data and technology expert is helping WFP reach vulnerable people more quickly and effectively

Software part of wider drive to improve efficiency in humanitarian assistance through Artificial Intelligence

To mark the sixth annual Africa Day of School Feeding, the World Food Programme highlights a greenhouse initiative that allows food to be grown all year round

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

WFP's ShareTheMeal app allows users to donate meals via their mobile phones

A call centre in Tripoli, managed by the World Food Programme, needs funding to keep up with the demand for information

World Food Programme techies and creatives are looking at ways to beat the pandemic and feed 100 million people in 80 countries

Information saves lives when global health is on the line

Chief economist Arif Husain explains how cutting-edge tech is supporting assistance by agency and wider humanitarian community

To mark International Women's Day, eight people who help make emergency responses happen reveal what makes them tick

ShareTheMeal's global community shares more than 50 million meals with hungry people across the world.

The World Food Programme is building on its cutting-edge responses to cylones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique

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

WFP helps restore community radios that saved lives in Mozambique after cyclone Idai

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.

Flying into a caldera in El Salvador, drones collect water for analysis and forecasting in a project backed by WFP

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