Australia’s Jessica Watson, who last year became the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone, is WFP’s newest Youth Representative. In her new role, Jessica will use her fame and spirit of adventure to engage young people around the world in the fight against hunger.

Originally posted from Round-World Sailor Jessica Watson Named WFP Youth Rep

Abdulla Adam Mussa and his family have spent the last seven years in a camp for displaced people in western Darfur. For most of that time, they’ve gotten by on food aid. But thanks to a new food vouchers scheme, they’ll be able to shop for their own food on local markets, allowing them more choice and a greater variety.

Originally posted from Sudan: Camp Dwellers Welcome New Food Choices

WFP’s Purchase for Progress initiative was in the spotlight at a key food security event in Washington on Tuesday as Bill Gates applauded the programme which works to connect small farmers to markets and WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran underlined the role corporations can play in supporting it.

Originally posted from Gates Spotlights WFP Support For Smallholder Farmers

Meet Adjinka Badejo. Her job is to organise school meals programmes in places where many children don’t go to school because they don’t have enough to eat. “School meals work because they’re simple,” says Adjinka. They help kids grow up healthy and keep them coming back to school. Watch video

Originally posted from School Meals Explained In 2 Minutes

WFP delivers hundreds of thousands of tons of food each year but, increasingly, we’re giving hungry people cash or vouchers to buy food for themselves. Particularly when food is available on the market but too expensive for the poorest to buy, cash and vouchers can feed the hungry without hurting the local economy.

Originally posted from Cash & Vouchers: An Innovative Way to Fight Hunger

WFP and the French G20 presidency hosted a high-level meeting in Rome on Monday to explore key issues in the fight against hunger, including the possibility of setting up emergency food reserves to ensure the world’s poor have access to food even during a major supply crisis.

Originally posted from French G20 Presidency Discusses Food Reserves at WFP

More than 810 children have been born in Burundian refugees camps since 2010. WFP supplies much needed food assistance to these children as well as to 20,000 Congolese refugees who have sought asylum in Burundi.
 

Originally posted from Born Refugees – Congolese Children Raised in Burundian Refugee Camps

From weathering mortar attacks in Somalia to navigating the conflict zone in Afghanistan, Mick Eccles job training emergency radio operators is anything but boring. But there’s more than just radios to this bearded aid worker, whose casual manner and love of roses have won him friends around the world.

Originally posted from On The Frontlines: Emergency Comms Expert Mick Eccles

Want to understand how high food prices really are? And how they’re affecting the world’s poor? Take a look at this infographic, which also underlines how hikes in food prices mean the poorest families have to make painful savings in areas such as health and schooling for their children.

Originally posted from The Food Price Rollercoaster

How many hungry people are there in the world and where do most of them live? What effect does it have on their minds and bodies and what can we do to help them? Here is a list of 10 things about hunger that absolutely everyone should know.

Originally posted from 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Hunger