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17.07.2019 | Press Release War and Climate Change Increase Hunger

Another increase of hunger figures: According to the UN, 821.6 million people around the world were suffering from hunger in 2018.

8 teams of innovators and their ideas were awarded during the Social Innovation Challenge 2019

27.05.2019 | Blog 8 innovative ideas to tackle hunger and social injustice

Eight new promising ideas to combat hunger and social injustice were shortlisted during the Social Innovation Challenge 2019.

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01.05.2019 | Blog Innovative ideas to fight hunger

The Welthungerhilfe is increasingly developing and using digital services to get closer to achieving the "zero hunger" goal.

10.04.2019 | Project Update Hunger and Undernutrition in Kenya

Modern Kenya offers a mixed picture: poverty reduction, population growth, extreme weather. How does this affect the nutritional situation?

Two bamboo bridges leading over a river in the Kutupalong camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

11.10.2018 | Guest Commentary Forced Migration and Hunger: 4 Misperceptions

Are hunger and displacement caused solely by natural events like droughts? No, it’s not that simple.

Launch of the 2018 Global Hunger Index in Berlin

11.10.2018 | Press Release 2018 Global Hunger Index

The 2018 Global Hunger Index reveals: Conflicts and crises put the progress that has been made in the fight against hunger at stake.

A group of Rohingya refugees in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh have received food from the local population.

11.09.2018 | Press Release Welthungerhilfe on the New UN Hunger Figures

According to the UN, hunger is increasing worldwide. At the same time, fighting hunger is very important to the people Germany.

A mother with her baby in the Kayes region, Mali.

27.07.2018 | Press Release Mali ahead of the Presidential Elections

Welthungerhilfe Demands Reforms for More Security and Less Hunger

Kind im Flüchtlings-Camp in Bentiu, Südsudan

09.07.2018 | Press Release Dire Situation After Seven Years

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, becomes seven years old on 9th July. Its performance till this day has been catastrophic.

Lucio Bravo and Willy Miguel Sanchez with a cocoa plant.

18.06.2018 | Blog The World Is Getting Better

For the first time in history, humanity is in a position to end hunger. Does that have something to do with the successes of development cooperation?...

13.04.2018 | Press Release A Catastrophic famine is looming in Eastern Congo

Actually, the country could feed itself, but peolpe have to flee their villages time and again.

23.03.2018 | Press Release Wars and conflicts remain hunger drivers

Conflict is the primary reason for most of the world's cases of acute food insecurity according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2018.