Episode 50: Inside the High-Tech Tool That Tracks Hunger Crises and Save Lives
On this episode of Hacking Hunger, we spoke to Jonathan Rivers, who's team at the U.N. World Food Programme uses mobile technology to monito...
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Episode 49: Creating an Anti-Poverty Movement with Clint Borgen
A passion project that began one summer on a fishing boat, The Borgen Project is now a nationwide campaign with volunteers in 931 cities . I...
Episode 48: Linking Hunger and War with Matthew Hollingworth
Two years ago, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2417, a resolution recognizing the link between hunger and war. But tw...
Episode 47: Poverty, Policy and Pandemic with Johan Swinnen
How much of an impact on developing economies will COVID-19 really have? Why will food systems change prevent dire impacts from happening in...
Episode 46: "Everything Changed Overnight." WFP USA CEO on Navigating a Global Crisis
Three months after Barron Segar joined WFP USA as president and CEO, disaster struck. COVID-19 hit and uprooted life as we knew, forcing Bar...
Episode 45: How Innovation Can Help Solve Hunger During a Pandemic
As the COVID-19 spreads, innovation and technology is needed more to reach people in need. In this episode of Hacking Hunger, Bernhard Kowat...
Episode 44: Food Tank, Food Systems and COVID-19: A Conversation with Dani Nierenberg
Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker and advocate, she's spent her career fighting for food-systems change and is an...
Episode 43: COVID-19 and the 5 Major Threats it Poses to Global Food Security
Every major outbreak in recent memory—Ebola, SARS, MERS—has had both direct and indirect negative impacts on food security. On this episode,...
Episode 42: Inside the Lives of Women Living Through World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Hunger is cruel to everyone, but it's not completely blind. Women – especially in times of war, are more at risk to the suffering it bestows...
Episode 41: How Can We End World Hunger? Travel Expert Rick Steves Visits Guatemala and Ethiopia to Explore Answers.
Rick Steves is no stranger to exploration. The renown travel expert has built his career around investigating the nooks and crannies of Euro...
Episode 40: Hunger, War and An American Dream
In the early 1990s, Abdi Nor Iftin was a child. Just like other children across the globe, he loved playing outdoors, bickered with his brot...
Episode 39: On the Frontlines: A Yemeni Aid Worker on What It's Like to Live Through the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis
In the last few years, Mohammed Ghanim has become all too familiar with the struggles of war. A program officer for WFP, Mohammed lives and...
Episode 38: It All Started With An Insight: How Feeding the World is at Your Fingertips
ShareTheMeal is a WFP app that enables people to donate food with just a tap of their fingers. In episode 38 of Hacking Hunger, we sat down...
Episode 37: The Ebola Epidemic is Back. This is How Food Can Help End it.
When Ebola spread through Western Africa in 2014, it killed more than 11,000 people. Now it's back – and the Democratic Republic of Congo is...
Episode 36: Hunger and Rain: The Story of The Dry Corridor
The tale of the Dry Corridor is one that's becoming all too familiar. It's one of extreme weather and desperation, hunger, drought and rain....
Episode 35: Cold and Polluted: Working on the Front Lines of Climate Extremes
For the fourth year in a row, hunger is on the rise globally. And one of the main reasons is climate change. The number of extreme climate-r...
Episode 34: Witnessing an Apocalypse: An Aid Worker's Tale of Cyclone Idai
On March 14, 2019, Cyclone Idai slammed into central Mozambique near the city of Beira. Its torrential winds and rains destroyed everything...
Episode 33: Breastfeeding in Emergencies – Nourishing Women and Children in Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is home to the world's largest refugee camp. One million refugees live there – 80 percent are women and children....
Episode 32: The Magic of a Meal: How School Feeding Transforms
H omegrown school feeding is not only transforming the lives of students, but entire communities. We sat down with Carmen Burbano de Lara, W...
Episode 31: Of Food, Life and Death
Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. WFP cameraman Marco Frattini recently traveled to the country to document the human impact o...