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News Articles: World Food Programme

The winner of this year's World Food Prize, Mariangela Hungria, showed how microbes could bring a higher soybean yield — turning Brazil into a soybean superpower.

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  • Global Health

The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Dan Charles
Ethiopian refugees rest in the shadow of a warehouse erected by the World Food Programme near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan.

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  • Global Health

Feeding the hungry will be harder than ever for the world's largest food aid agency

The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
Palestinian people with empty bowls wait for food at a donation point in Rafah. A report out this week shows widespread hunger and malnutrition in Gaza but stopped short of declaring it a "famine."

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  • World

There's already 'catastrophic' hunger in Gaza. Who decides when to call it a 'famine?'

A report out this week says hunger, malnutrition and even starvation are widespread in Gaza, but stopped short of declaring it a 'famine.' Here's a primer on what that means, and who gets to decide.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
A student at Professor Lourdes Heredia Mello Municipal School in São Paulo enjoys an apple for dessert after lunch. Brazil's school lunch program, enshrined in its constitution, is a pillar of the country's anti-poverty efforts.

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  • Global Health

The pandemic sent hunger soaring in Brazil. They're fighting back with school lunches

Free school lunches, a pillar of Brazil's anti-poverty efforts, are now one of its main weapons against surging post-pandemic hunger. And that's not the only benefit.

January 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
Workers load the trucks with boxes after a planes carrying Turkish humanitarian aid for residents of the Gaza Strip landed at El Arish International Airport in Egypt, neighboring the enclave under intense Israeli blockade and bombardment on October 13, 2023.

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  • Global Health

Aid deal brings hope to hungry Gaza residents, but no food yet

A deal struck Thursday is set to allow humanitarian aid parked in Egypt into Gaza. How much and how soon food would arrive remains uncertain.

October 19, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
World Food Program chief David Beasley speaks to The Associated Press in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Aug. 19, 2022.

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  • World

U.N. food chief says billions of dollars are needed to avert unrest and starvation

The world will see mass migration, destabilized countries and starving people in the next 12 to 18 months without billions of dollars more funding, the U.N. World Food Program chief warned.

April 01, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Afghans wait for food assistance from the World Food Programme in Kabul in October.

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  • World

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

At World Food Programme distribution sites, "Everybody tells us, 'Last winter was difficult, but we have no idea how we will get through the coming winter,'" says a WFP spokesperson in Kabul.

November 25, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani,
  • Claire Harbage,
  • and 1 more
Zania Muhammed comforts her malnourished son, Mazzam Brahim, in the emergency section for critical care patients at a hospital in N'djamena, Chad. The war in Ukraine has caused food prices to skyrocket, leaving many without enough to eat.

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  • Global Health

Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine

In Chad, one of the continent's poorest countries, rising food and fuel prices — and drought — have left many hungry and unable to afford the limited food that is for sale.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Cynthia Rosenzweig has been named the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate for her work to determine the impact of climate change on worldwide food production.

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  • Climate

World Food Prize goes to former farmer who answers climate change question: 'So what?'

The 2022 honoree is Cynthia Rosenzweig, whose computer modeling shows the impact on global crops. She talks about her "aha" moment, a big surprise in her findings and her plans for the $250,000 prize.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • Julia Simon
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

For many Afghans, winter is forcing a cruel choice of whether to eat or stay warm

"It shouldn't be a lottery of life about who gets to eat, who doesn't get to eat. Do I keep my child warm or do I give my child food?" a World Food Programme Afghanistan spokesperson tells NPR.

January 06, 2022
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By:
  • Hannah Bloch
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

How $6 billion from Elon Musk could feed millions on the brink of famine

Elon Musk reportedly made $36 billion in a single day. What if he gave a sixth of that to the World Food Programme? We ask researchers how much of a change $6 billion could bring.

November 12, 2021
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By:
  • Joanne Lu
Foxtrot and Gemma Snowdon of the U.N. World Food Programme, who rescued the pooch as a 4-week-old puppy. Foxtrot's reaction to the Nobel Peace Prize: "Woweee."

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  • Global Health

Nobel Peace Prize Goes To The Dog (aka The Mascot Of WFP)

The U.N. World Food Programme has a canine mascot named Foxtrot. Reports are that the pooch is rolling over with joy at the news of the prize.

October 09, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien

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