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Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Program Highlights These Links Between Hunger and Conflict

Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict Jessica Eise, Purdue University The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for its efforts to combat hunger, foster conditions for peace in...

A New UN Report Details Food Crises Around the World

Every year for the last three years, persistent conflict, climate shocks and economic instability have driven more than 100 million people around the world into crisis-levels acute hunger or worse. Last year, that number was 113 million people in 53...

PODCAST: World Food Program Chief David Beasley Discusses Food Crises in the Sahel and North Korea

My guest today, David Beasley is the executive director of the World Food Program. We caught up not long after he visited both the Sahel region of western Africa and from North Korea, where the World Food Program is...

Food Ration Cuts Are Becoming the Norm as Aid Agencies Struggle to Keep Up

Facing a massive funding shortfall, the World Food Program in January cut rations for Congolese refugees in Rwanda by 25%. Protests against those cuts turned deadly on February 27th when Rwandan police fired into a crowd, killing 11 refugees. This incident...

Map of the Day: The Places Where the UN Warns of Major risks to Food Security in the Next Three Months

Today’s map comes from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. It is part of the FAO’s early warning system that seeks to forecast where food insecurity will be most acute in the coming months. This map forecasts expected emergencies in...

“If we don’t receive the funds we need immediately, 600,000 people will be on the brink of starvation”

The head of the World Food Program issued a dire warning on Monday: if donors do not step up, hundreds of thousands of people in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will fave starvation. “Right now,...

Here is how the UN is fighting Hunger in Somalia

How the international community saves lives in conflict prone countries or insecure places is becoming increasingly relevant and important to global affairs. With more people displaced around the world than at any time since World War Two there is an...

The Crisis in South Sudan is Sending 2,000 Refugees to Uganda. Every Day

Over the past three months, an average of more than 2,000 South Sudanese a day have crossed into Uganda, seeking safety from bloodshed at home. Aid groups and government agencies are scrambling to shelter and feed everyone. The influx has...

Cautious Optimism, Syria Edition

It’s been four days since the cessation of hostilities went into effect in Syria. For a conflict that has only consistently and relentlessly intensified for the past five years, there has now been the longest period of sustained de-escalation around the...

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Program Highlights These Links Between Hunger and Conflict

A New UN Report Details Food Crises Around the World

PODCAST: World Food Program Chief David Beasley Discusses Food Crises in the Sahel and North Korea

Food Ration Cuts Are Becoming the Norm as Aid Agencies Struggle to Keep Up

Map of the Day: The Places Where the UN Warns of Major risks to Food Security in the Next Three Months

“If we don’t receive the funds we need immediately, 600,000 people will be on the brink of starvation”

Here is how the UN is fighting Hunger in Somalia

The Crisis in South Sudan is Sending 2,000 Refugees to Uganda. Every Day

Cautious Optimism, Syria Edition

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations