Episode 36: Hunger and Rain: The Story of The Dry Corridor

Episode 50: Inside the High-Tech Tool That Tracks Hunger Crises and Save Lives: On this episode of Hacking Hunger, we spoke to Jonathan Rivers, who's team at the U.N. World Food Programme uses mobile technology to monitor food security in real time. He describes how this technology works, and the critical role it plays in... by Hacking Hunger

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Episode 49: Creating an Anti-Poverty Movement with Clint Borgen: A passion project that began one summer on a fishing boat, The Borgen Project is now a nationwide campaign with volunteers in 931 cities. It advocates, mobilizes and educates to improve the living conditions of people living on less than a dollar a... by Hacking Hunger

17 min listen

Episode 48: Linking Hunger and War with Matthew Hollingworth: Two years ago, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2417, a resolution recognizing the link between hunger and war. But two years later, too little has changed. For this episode, we sat down with Matthew Hollingworth, United Nations... by Hacking Hunger

17 min listen

Episode 47: Poverty, Policy and Pandemic with Johan Swinnen: How much of an impact on developing economies will COVID-19 really have? Why will food systems change prevent dire impacts from happening in the future? On this episode of Hacking Hunger, we talk to Johan Swinnen, a top economist and currently... by Hacking Hunger

20 min listen

Episode 46: “Everything Changed Overnight.” WFP USA CEO on Navigating a Global Crisis: Three months after Barron Segar joined WFP USA as president and CEO, disaster struck. COVID-19 hit and uprooted life as we knew, forcing Barron and WFP USA leadership to reimagine many of their plans. Barron is no stranger to crisis, so we sat down... by Hacking Hunger

19 min listen

Episode 45: How Innovation Can Help Solve Hunger During a Pandemic: As the COVID-19 spreads, innovation and technology is needed more to reach people in need. In this episode of Hacking Hunger, Bernhard Kowatsch, head of WFP's Innovation Accelerator, explains how the program is working to support WFP's pandemic response. by Hacking Hunger

21 min listen

Episode 44: Food Tank, Food Systems and COVID-19: A Conversation with Dani Nierenberg: Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker and advocate, she’s spent her career fighting for food-systems change and is an expert on all things food and ag. On this episode, we talk to Danielle about her background, her current... by Hacking Hunger

17 min listen

Episode 43: COVID-19 and the 5 Major Threats it Poses to Global Food Security: Every major outbreak in recent memory—Ebola, SARS, MERS—has had both direct and indirect negative impacts on food security. On this episode, we speak to Chase Sova, our senior director of policy and research, to learn what the experts are saying... by Hacking Hunger

29 min listen

Episode 42: Inside the Lives of Women Living Through World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Hunger is cruel to everyone, but it’s not completely blind. Women – especially in times of war, are more at risk to the suffering it bestows. Women are 60 percent more likely to suffer from hunger and its consequences. They eat last and least and... by Hacking Hunger

30 min listen

Episode 41: How Can We End World Hunger? Travel Expert Rick Steves Visits Guatemala and Ethiopia to Explore Answers.: Rick Steves is no stranger to exploration. The renown travel expert has built his career around investigating the nooks and crannies of Europe and sharing his discoveries with curious travelers. Recently, however, Rick ventured beyond Europe to... by Hacking Hunger

27 min listen

Episode 40: Hunger, War and An American Dream: One Man's Story of Overcoming the Odds to Survive. by Hacking Hunger

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Episode 39: On the Frontlines: A Yemeni Aid Worker on What It’s Like to Live Through the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: In the last few years, Mohammed Ghanim has become all too familiar with the struggles of war. A program officer for WFP, Mohammed lives and works in Yemen, site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. He is also from Yemen, born and raised – and... by Hacking Hunger

15 min listen

Episode 38: It All Started With An Insight: How Feeding the World is at Your Fingertips: ShareTheMeal is a WFP app that enables people to donate food with just a tap of their fingers. In episode 38 of Hacking Hunger, we sat down with Max Costa, head of ShareTheMeal, and Nishkam Mehta, a super user, to learn the impact the app has had, and... by Hacking Hunger

21 min listen

Episode 37: The Ebola Epidemic is Back. This is How Food Can Help End it.: When Ebola spread through Western Africa in 2014, it killed more than 11,000 people. Now it’s back – and the Democratic Republic of Congo is at its epicenter in a critical phase. We spoke to Jacques David, WFP communications officer, at how WFP is... by Hacking Hunger

21 min listen

Episode 35: Cold and Polluted: Working on the Front Lines of Climate Extremes: For the fourth year in a row, hunger is on the rise globally. And one of the main reasons is climate change. The number of extreme climate-related disasters has doubled since the early 1990s, with an average of 213 of these events occurring every... by Hacking Hunger

16 min listen

Episode 34: Witnessing an Apocalypse: An Aid Worker's Tale of Cyclone Idai: On March 14, 2019, Cyclone Idai slammed into central Mozambique near the city of Beira. Its torrential winds and rains destroyed everything in its path, and left millions of people without the food, shelter and water they needed to survive. We spoke... by Hacking Hunger

13 min listen

Episode 33: Breastfeeding in Emergencies – Nourishing Women and Children in Cox’s Bazar: Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is home to the world’s largest refugee camp. One million refugees live there – 80 percent are women and children. The camp is plagued by poor water, unsanitary conditions, and limited access to health services and food.... by Hacking Hunger

13 min listen

Episode 32: The Magic of a Meal: How School Feeding Transforms: Homegrown school feeding is not only transforming the lives of students, but entire communities. We sat down with Carmen Burbano de Lara, WFP director of school feeding, and Amy Blauman, who manages WFP’s homegrown school feeding... by Hacking Hunger

14 min listen

Episode 31: Of Food, Life and Death: Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. WFP cameraman Marco Frattini recently traveled to the country to document the human impact of its four-year civil war. What he saw is something he’ll never forget. On our latest episode of Hacking... by Hacking Hunger

9 min listen

Episode 30: A Nation on the Brink of Famine: Years of conflict have pushed Yemen to the edge of famine. There are 8 million people in the country suffering from severe hunger, and intensifying violence could bring this number to 12 million. WFP’s Yemen Country Director, Stephen Anderson, talks... by Hacking Hunger

13 min listen

Episode 29: A Storytellers Farewell: In her final episode as host, M.J. Altman turns the mic over to three women in Guatemala, Chad and Jordan who share their own stories in their own languages as part of a unique project from the U.N. World Food Programme known as Storytellers. by Hacking Hunger

11 min listen

Episode 28: Survival in the Sahel: The Sahel of Africa has always been an unforgiving landscape, but now families in the region are facing two growing threats at the same time: Climate change and conflict. Boko Haram’s campaign of terror has displaced thousands of people as farmers... by Hacking Hunger

11 min listen

Episode 27: The Logistics of Hope: Diko Amariah has been on both sides of humanitarian aid, first as a child refugee and now as an aid worker in South Sudan, where five years of conflict have pushed millions of people—especially women and girls—to the brink of famine. M.J. talks to... by Hacking Hunger

11 min listen

Episode 26: One Father’s Reflections From Syria: Escalating violence in Eastern Ghouta has dominated recent news coverage of the conflict in Syria as humanitarians struggle to reach families trapped without food. Jakob Kern has witnessed the turmoil firsthand as head of the U.N. World Food... by Hacking Hunger

14 min listen

Episode 25: Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp: When violence in Myanmar sparked a mass exodus last August, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled for the border. Today, the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh has become the world’s largest refugee camp, hosting more than 1 million... by Hacking Hunger

7 min listen

Episode 24: Averting Catastrophe in Mozambique (Part 2): When a historic drought struck Mozambique last year, the nation’s farmers found themselves plunged into hunger. So how did the U.N. World Food Programme help pull the country back from the brink? On the last of a two-part series, M.J. shares five... by Hacking Hunger

16 min listen

Episode 23: On the Brink in Mozambique (Part 1): A year ago, Mozambique was on the brink of disaster. Successive droughts meant the country’s farmers had almost nothing to harvest—or feed their families. In the first in a two-part series, M.J. takes you to the country’s urban streets and rural... by Hacking Hunger

11 min listen

Episode 22: One Olympian’s Wake-Up Call in Uganda: Good nutrition helped Natalie Coughlin earn the most Olympic medals of any female swimmer in U.S. history. But a recent trip to Uganda with World Food Program USA — where she met farmers, elementary students and refugees from South Sudan —... by Hacking Hunger

13 min listen

Episode 21: A Lifesaving Legacy Under Threat: Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much these days, but hunger has always been different. For decades, Congress and the White House have worked together to feed families around the world. M.J. talks to former Senator Tom Daschle about why this... by Hacking Hunger

21 min listen

Episode 20: The Forgotten Food Waste Crisis: In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, farmers can expect to lose nearly half of their harvest before it even leaves the farm. M.J. talks to the World Food Programme’s Brett Rierson about why — and how “tupperware for crops” could change the way... by Hacking Hunger

19 min listen

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Episode 36: Hunger and Rain: The Story of The Dry Corridor

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