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A man and a young boy eat a simple meal together inside a makeshift shelter.

Five Things to Know About Spiraling Insecurity in the Sahel

Three women sifting through produce.

From hurricanes pounding islands to drought destroying crops across Central America, and erratic rain patterns affecting the livelihoods of indigenous communities living on Andean slopes, climate-related challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean are as diverse as are the region’s landscapes. Climate change is exacerbating many of these, with higher temperatures, delayed rainy seasons, rainfall irregularity, and increasingly frequent and extreme weather events. The World Food Programme is implementing an array of measures to face up to the region’s challenges.

Elias’s daughter holds a plate of cicadas. In the background we see many children sitting on the ground, leaning against a wall.

Eating Insects and Praying for Rain

Cesaria Illescas Gonzales, better known by her nickname Chepita, stands with her husband for a portrait in their farmland.

How the World Food Programme (WFP) helped one woman in Bolivia revive land lost to floods — and make a Christmas feast.

child jumping rope

How can you change the world with just US $ 0.50? With a tap on your smartphone you can "share the meal" with a child in need. It costs only US $ 0.50 to feed one child for a day.

Drawing of planet earth cradled by 2 hands, which are also cradling corn and plants. This earth is plugged into a man's leg. He carries a large basket of food over his head

Annual Children’s Design Competition

Men collect boxes, which are stamped with the WFP and Syrian Red Cross logos, from the back of a truck.

Find out how packaging can help prevent food loss and waste, from this interview with Carole Manceau (WFP’s packaging expert). #StopTheWaste

A group of people looking distressed gather around a man who is looking at his cell phone with cash in his left hand.

5 Climate-Driven Disasters in 2019 and how WFP Responded

Gianluigi Buffon

In his role as WFP Goodwill Ambassador, Gianluigi Buffon will have the opportunity to travel to some of the 83 countries where WFP helps communities rebuild shattered lives and livelihoods. 

The World Food Programme is testing drones to beat hunger

Enrica Porcari, head of the Technology division of UN World Food Programme (WFP), reflects on how the private sector and tech community must help ensure the 2030 Development Agenda stays on track in an age of receding multilateralism.