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Hidden, human stories about food on the front lines of hunger.
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...
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...
Two years ago, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2417, a resolution recognizing the link between hunger and war. But tw...
How much of an impact on developing economies will COVID-19 really have? Why will food systems change prevent dire impacts from happening in...
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...
As the COVID-19 spreads, innovation and technology is needed more to reach people in need. In this episode of Hacking Hunger, Bernhard Kowat...
Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker and advocate, she's spent her career fighting for food-systems change and is an...
Every major outbreak in recent memory—Ebola, SARS, MERS—has had both direct and indirect negative impacts on food security. On this episode,...
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...
Rick Steves is no stranger to exploration. The renown travel expert has built his career around investigating the nooks and crannies of Euro...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
On March 14, 2019, Cyclone Idai slammed into central Mozambique near the city of Beira. Its torrential winds and rains destroyed everything...
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....
H omegrown school feeding is not only transforming the lives of students, but entire communities. We sat down with Carmen Burbano de Lara, W...
Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. WFP cameraman Marco Frattini recently traveled to the country to document the human impact o...
Years of conflict have pushed Yemen to the edge of famine. There are 8 million people in the country suffering from severe hunger, and inten...
In her final episode as host, M.J. Altman turns the mic over to three women in Guatemala, Chad and Jordan who share their own stories in the...
The Sahel of Africa has always been an unforgiving landscape, but now families in the region are facing two growing threats at the same time...
Diko Amariah has been on both sides of humanitarian aid, first as a child refugee and now as an aid worker in South Sudan, where five years...
Escalating violence in Eastern Ghouta has dominated recent news coverage of the conflict in Syria as humanitarians struggle to reach familie...
When violence in Myanmar sparked a mass exodus last August, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled for the border. Today, the Kutupalong cam...
When a historic drought struck Mozambique last year, the nation's farmers found themselves plunged into hunger. So how did the U.N. World Fo...
A year ago, Mozambique was on the brink of disaster. Successive droughts meant the country's farmers had almost nothing to harvest—or feed t...
Good nutrition helped Natalie Coughlin earn the most Olympic medals of any female swimmer in U.S. history. But a recent trip to Uganda with...
Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much these days, but hunger has always been different. For decades, Congress and the White House ha...
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, farmers can expect to lose nearly half of their harvest before it even leaves the farm. M.J. talks to t...
As conflict rages in neighboring South Sudan, Uganda's leaders -- many of them former refugees themselves -- are welcoming thousands of peop...
Famine paints an unspeakable picture: Families desperate for food, children dying of hunger, an urgent need for life-saving aid. The recent...
Lovebirds Poonam Kaushal and Nishkaam Mehta are getting hitched this Valentine's Day. Instead of throwing a big wedding, they teamed up with...
Season 1 of Hacking Hunger was an experiment that uncovered moments of joy, heartache and the unexpected. M.J. takes a look back at a few of...
The city of Mosul has become the latest frontline in the war against ISIS and hunger in Iraq. Tens of thousands of families have fled the vi...
Journalist Dalia Mortada may have been born and raised in the U.S., but she grew up in a Syrian kitchen. As a child, she savored aromas and...
When Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti last month, the storm ravaged its southern coast and left hundreds of thousands of families withou...
For Peter Mumo, escaping a childhood of hunger and poverty in Kenya began with an empty bowl, a nervous excitement, and the delivery of his...
When violence or natural disaster strikes vulnerable communities, good data on the hunger that often results can be hard to come by. For aid...
If women farmers had the same access to resources like capital, markets and training as their male counterparts, the number of hungry people...
In an increasingly food-obsessed world, journalists and consumers alike are digging into the politics of what ends up on our plates. This gl...
At a time when smartphone users outnumber the world's hungry children by 20 to 1, humanitarian organizations are crowdsourcing creative idea...
In a besieged town in Syria earlier this year, families had been boiling grass to survive when word spread that the first delivery of food a...
What's it like to live in a country with terrain that is both breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly dangerous? Few places exemplify this b...
Millennials are the largest and most educated generation in the U.S. Today, they outnumber baby boomers by nearly 8 million people. And the...
A historic drought is sweeping Ethiopia and more than 10 million people have been pushed into hunger. We talk with two humanitarians in Ethi...
We speak with Dina el-Kassaby, one of the WFP's Communications Officers based in Cairo, about how the conflicts in Syria and Iraq have impac...
In this segment of Hacking Hunger podcast, Allan Jury, WFP USA's Public Policy Vice President and food security "Yoda" debunks some of the p...
We're joined today by Roger Thurow, an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled across the globe reporting on food security, agr...