Students in the World Food Problems course talk with Dennis Savaiano, the Virginia C. Meredith Professor of Nutrition Policy, during one of the course's small-group discussions. In the discussions, ...

No one should have to go hungry, especially in a world with as much wealth as ours. But the sad reality is that more than 821 million people are currently suffering from hunger. That's one in nine ...

On November 12 2025, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO) and the World Food Programme ( WFP) published a joint report that raises alarm bells about the state of global food security.

We meet the CDO of the World Food Programme who tells us how he focuses on solving problems from first principles, and how that in turn is helping his organization use data to feed the world. In a ...

Some readers are fed up with me! “Don’t guilt trip me” is a refrain I heard from many readers of my recent columns from West Africa and South Sudan about children dying because of cuts in American ...

With one in seven of the earth’s inhabitants going hungry, hunger is the key global challenge of our time. World Hunger: a Solvable Problem highlights the UN’s collaborative fight against hunger.