WFP Emergency Response

From the first 48 hours of an emergency, the World Food Programme is on the ground monitoring response needs and delivering immediate food aid.

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Helping Children Reach Their Full Potential

The first 1,000 days of life refers to the ‘window of opportunity’ from a child’s conception through to her second birthday, and it shape us in ways that last a lifetime.

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Keeping Girls in School

or every year a girl stays in primary school, her future income increases up to 20%. It also makes her more likely to marry later, have fewer children and avoid being a victim of violence.

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Women are Hungrier - Madagascar

A woman and her young son stand in front of a grain warehouse in Madagascar. Across Africa, farmers lose up to 40 percent of all the food they harvest because of insects, rats and mold that permeate traditional silos. With access to modern farming equipment, they could cut their food loss to less than 2 percent.

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Women are Hungrier - Armeline

Armeline works at a school garden in Madagascar growing vegetables that are used in WFP’s school meals program. In 2018, more than 290,000 school children in Madagascar received daily hot meals. For every year a girl stays in school, her future income increases up to 20 percent. She is also more likely to marry later, have fewer children and have better health.

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Women are Hungrier - Chad

In Chad, Africa, 87 percent of the rural population lives below the poverty line. This woman participates in WFP’s Food for Assets program, which provides food to participants in exchange for their work on public projects like roads, dams and irrigation systems. When women earn an income, they reinvest 90 percent of their earnings back into their families.

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Photo: WFP/Saikat Mojumder Hacking Hunger Episode 33: Breastfeeding in Emergencies

With one million people, Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is the world’s largest refugee camp, and 80 percent are women and children. Tracy Dube, a WFP nutritionist in the camp, talks about the challenges that pregnant mothers, new moms and young children face in this pop-up city.

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Photo: WFP/Raul Saenz Hacking Hunger - Episode 32: The Magic of a Meal: How School Feeding Transforms

Homegrown school feeding is not only transforming the lives of students, but entire communities.

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Photo: WFP/Marco Frattini Hacking Hunger - Episode 31: Of Food, Life and Death

WFP cameraman Marco Frattini shares his experience visiting the children and families who have become innocent victims of Yemen’s war.

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The 4 Pillars of Food Security

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Infographic - 2018 Energizing Food Systems

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Infographic - 2019 Venezuela Crisis

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