Stories

Children in the farming communities of the northern province are at risk as conflict disrupts livelihoods — a joint nutrition assessment by the two UN agencies aims to help prevent malnutrition

How World Food Programme school feeding is enabling aspirations by motivating families to keep their daughters in school

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

South Sudan is among East African countries experiencing invasions on a scale not seen since 2003–2005 in West Africa

Private sector organizations bring unique skills and expertise to the table

How nutrition can act as a catalyst for progress across the Sustainable Development Goals.

The unique role of adolescents in the household means that they can be agents of change to improve the health and nutrition of their families, peers and communities.

The World Food Programme is providing cash assistance as lockdown measures exacerbate poverty

WFP project in Guinea sees activities that protect health and overall food security

Bringing food closer to malnourished children

‘My kids come home and even start teaching us — the parents — what food is healthy and what is not'

The monsoon season sets new challenges for people living in camps on the Bangladesh border

Tech-minded humanitarians at the World Food Programme are exploring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to map needs in disasters.

World Food Programme (WFP) engineer Daniela Villar on monsoon preparations in refugee camps in Bangladesh and being a woman in the male-dominated world of engineering

Among 300,000 recipients of World Food Programme assistance in the country are two women who explain why every day is a struggle

How an access road built by the World Food Programme is sparking off development in South Sudan

Professor Jenny Pearce of the London School of Economics talks to WFP's Insight to mark the UN's Day of Living Together in Peace

They escaped violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2017 — with newly acquired farming skills, their optimism is back

As schools reopen during COVID-19, governments must invest in essential school-based services

A USAID-funded WFP programme is helping people whose lives were disrupted by Cyclone Idai to rebuild their lives

What goes into a plate of food? We went to Nalingula school in Malawi where farmers, parents, teachers and children are all looking forward to going back to school to find out.

Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), reflects on the metrics of global food output and needs

With help from the World Food Programme, Sayyida, a mother-of-three in Upper Egypt, turned a business dream into reality.

A visit to Saré Bidji shows how government, people and the World Food Programme are putting children's futures first

Campaign highlights gross paradox of hunger and food waste