We have a new product at the ONE store: FEED Bags. You may have seen these iconic burlap bags around, but do you know the story behind them? Learn more about the brand that’s making a big difference and then visit our online store today to get your own! Model and activist Lauren Bush was first asked

ONE Mom blogger Kelly Wickham of Mocha Momma, will be sharing her experience with Live Below the Line day-by-day. Read the original article here.  There’s no video recap tonight because I’m ridiculously tired and it occurred to me that I’ve been trying to post twice a day here and I wrote two pieces for Babble, a post on celebrating

As the ballots were being counted in the recent Kenya election, I saw photos of people displaying the encouraging message: Give Peace a Chance. So far, that sentiment seems to be holding. Equally important for the future of the country is this imperative message for the new government: Give Peas a Chance. And Maize. And Beans. And Sweet Potatoes. And Millet. And Sorghum. And Peanuts.

Ahead of the International AIDS Conference next week in Washington, D.C., Martin Bloem, chief of Nutrition and HIV Policy at the World Food Programme, shares the impact of food and nutrition on the HIV response. For Tankiso, an HIV-positive mother living in rural Lesotho, food has made all the difference. In Harare, Zimbabwe, people living

This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million people face starvation and 1.1 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of dying from acute

As you can imagine, taking photos for the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger has sent WFP’s photo editor of 12 years, Rein Skullerud, all over the world to some pretty hard-hit places. A recent trip to drought-hit Niger to capture the story of the region’s hunger crisis and how WFP is working with communities to

Yesterday, I got to use Google+ Hangout, a new technology that allows people to video chat each other, for social good. It was pretty awesome. The World Food Programme organized the Hangout and broadcasted it live on YouTube to raise awareness about the emerging food crisis in the Sahel. The World Food Programme’s Niger country

How can we avoid future food crises like the Somalia famine? According to Ali Goldstein from the World Food Programme, we must create long-term food security programs and open up our networks of connectivity and communication. In the morning newspaper and on the nightly news, the images from the Horn of Africa now coming into

David Orr of the World Food Programme talks about cash- and food-for-work projects that put money into the pockets of the Haitians who need it and pave the way for reconstruction. On a recent visit to Delmas 32, a neighborhood in the heart of Port-au-Prince, I had the opportunity to see Haitians rebuilding their country

Martin Kabaluapa works with the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress project to help farmers in Kenya grow their own food to feed their own people. In this blog post, he explains how the project works — and why it’s so successful. Martin Kabaluapa working with a local farmer in Kenya. As the Purchase for

The New York Times has a look at some recent tension between the United Nations and the US regarding aid restrictions in Somalia over growing concerns that the aid is not being responsibly distributed. UN official Mark Bowden claims that accusations of aid diversions in to the Shabab– who the US government has labeled a

UPDATE: WFP has provided clips on their site here, but the video players appear to be temporarily broken. Marking the 1-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the World Food Programme hosted a meeting in Rome this morning to discuss and plan “Haitian-led food security”. The meeting was convened by Haitian Agriculture Minister Joanas

That’s how much rice the World Food Programme has distributed to quake-stricken Haiti. According to CNN: The food distribution plan, coordinated by the United Nations World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government, was to hand out food at 16 identified points across the city. But on Sunday, people at only nine of

Check out this partner post from the World Food Programme on their Students Helping Haiti campaign. Since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12th, the World Food Programme (WFP) has been delivering emergency food assistance to survivors. But help hasn’t just been on the ground. Students from around the world—the workers, parents, voters, and

Yesterday, I joined a group of DC-based reporters at the UN Foundation to hear the latest on the situation in Haiti from Sir John Holmes, the top UN aid chief on Haiti (formally called the Under-Secretary General of the UN and Emergency Relief Coordinator). Sir John joined us via teleconference from the UN offices in