Hacking Hunger
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Hacking Hunger
Hidden, human stories about food on the front lines of hunger. Produced by World Food Program USA.
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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 sec...
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...
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 la...
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 futur...
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 WF...
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...
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...
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...
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 ar...
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 sha...
Episode 40: Hunger, War and An American Dream
In the early 1990s, Abdi Nor Iftin was a child. Just like other children across the globe, he loved playing outdoors, bickered with his brother and dr...
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 Y...
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 C...
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 ep...
Episode 36: Hunger and Rain: The Story of The Dry Corridor
The tale of the Dry Corridor is one that’s becoming all too familiar. It’s one of extreme weather and desperation, hunger, drought and rain.
The...
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 dis...
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 pat...
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 i...
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...
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...
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 vi...
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 lan...
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...
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 conflic...
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...
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...
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 Program...
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 famil...
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...
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...
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 F...
Episode 19: 24 Hours on the Border of War
As conflict rages in neighboring South Sudan, Uganda’s leaders -- many of them former refugees themselves -- are welcoming thousands of people seeking...
Episode 18: The F-Word
Famine paints an unspeakable picture: Families desperate for food, children dying of hunger, an urgent need for life-saving aid. The recent declaratio...
Episode 17: A Love Story That Is Feeding the World
Lovebirds Poonam Kaushal and Nishkaam Mehta are getting hitched this Valentine’s Day. Instead of throwing a big wedding, they teamed up with friends,...
Episode 16: How We Got to Season 2
Season 1 of Hacking Hunger was an experiment that uncovered moments of joy, heartache and the unexpected. M.J. takes a look back at a few of her favor...
Episode 15: Reuniting After Escaping ISIS
The city of Mosul has become the latest frontline in the war against ISIS and hunger in Iraq. Tens of thousands of families have fled the violence, re...
Episode 14: Inside a Syrian Kitchen
Journalist Dalia Mortada may have been born and raised in the U.S., but she grew up in a Syrian kitchen. As a child, she savored aromas and flavors li...
Episode 13: Handing Over the Mic to Haitian Voices After Matthew
When Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti last month, the storm ravaged its southern coast and left hundreds of thousands of families without food, sh...
Episode 12: Mr. Mumo Goes to Washington
For Peter Mumo, escaping a childhood of hunger and poverty in Kenya began with an empty bowl, a nervous excitement, and the delivery of his very first...
Episode 11: Pinpointing Hunger with Mobile Phones
When violence or natural disaster strikes vulnerable communities, good data on the hunger that often results can be hard to come by. For aid workers,...