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...
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Hidden, human stories about food on the front lines of hunger. Produced by World Food Program USA.
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 advocate...
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...