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The Great Setback: How Coronavirus Sent Schoolchildren Home Hungry

March 3, 2021

The world had an expanding safety net, with school feeding a growing priority for governments. Then COVID-19 arrived and smashed it all.

Women Are the Victims of – and Part of the Solution to – Hunger

March 3, 2021

One of the bitter realities of our work is that women and girls are more likely than men and boys to suffer from hunger. So everywhere we work, closing the hunger gender gap is one of our biggest priorities.

This Is How We Reach Families Threatened by Famine in South Sudan

March 2, 2021

We’re doing everything we can to reach people with the most acute needs through emergency rapid response teams.

This New Online Tool Creates Nourishing, Locally-Sourced School Meals in Minutes

March 1, 2021

It might seem futuristic, but WFP’s “PLUS” software designs a “menu” of school meals that are healthier, up to 20% cheaper, and use as much as 70% locally-sourced ingredients.

6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger

March 1, 2021

Did you know that more than 50% of the world’s farm workers are women? Or that 62 million school-aged girls don’t go to class? See how stats like these impact women’s hunger.

During the Pandemic, WFP Is Standing up to the Scourge of Childhood Hunger: By Focusing on Moms

February 3, 2021

The key to ending malnutrition isn’t a mystery, nor does it require any high-tech innovation. It starts with the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. And it starts with the mother.

17M Underage Girls Become Mothers Every Year and They Are So Hard to Reach

February 1, 2021

We need to remind the world of the exponential power of investing in adolescent girls. “If this was the stock market, you’d have investors flocking,” says one doctor.

Women Do 2.6 Times More Domestic Work Than Men. Here’s a Look Inside 10 of Their Kitchens.

January 28, 2021

Imagine cooking a meal without running water, electricity or even a countertop. Most of us wouldn’t know where to begin. And yet, millions of women around the world do it every day. See 10 of their kitchens.

Women Are Hungry for Change. For Equality. For Food. Meet 10 of Them.

January 27, 2021

Women face enormous obstacles, yet they are growing crops, delivering medical care, becoming teachers and providing for their families in situations we can hardly imagine.