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World Vision warns: disruptions in US food aid impacts farmers at home and hungry children abroad
Highlights “We’ve lost markets,” says Cathy Kaufman, a farmer in western Nebraska, whose produce was used in food assistance. “The loss of foreign aid is the loss of a market for farmers’ surplus.” WASHINGTON D.C. (October 14, 2025) — This year, World Food Day...
Global food ration cuts leave displaced families and children hungry, vulnerable and forgotten, says new report from World Vision
Highlights Children in food-insecure households are eight times more likely to engage in child labor and nearly six times more likely to be married early. Families who had their food rations reduced were over five times more likely to face severe food insecurity. 38%...
Over 32 million people in Sudan and South Sudan face severe hunger, warns World Vision
Highlights New mutli-country report reveals Sudan has the highest rate of severe household hunger Children across six countries are at increased risk Nearly 87% of households in the Central African Republic (CAR) are resorting to extreme coping mechanisms to survive Fewer than 1% of...
World Vision warns of rising death toll as famine conditions declared in North Darfur, Sudan
Highlights “This is confirmation of our worst fears coming to fruition – that thousands of people, including vulnerable children, will die from starvation,” said Edgar Sandoval Sr., World Vision’s president and CEO. Maha and her malnourished child in their shelter in the Adre transitional...
Six months after the Syria earthquake, survivors are still unhoused and at risk of starvation, warns World Vision
Highlights Cuts to food rations place some 2.5 million people at imminent risk of severe hunger Extreme summer heat has caused fires that have killed five people and damaged hundreds of tents Halfway through the year, the United Nations’ $5.3 billion Humanitarian Response Plan...
World Vision welcomes news of first grain shipment from Ukraine, hopes it’s a step toward addressing global hunger crisis
Highlights World Vision is pleased that the first ship carrying grain has left the Ukrainian port of Odesa Millions of tons of grain need to be exported to tackle the global hunger crisis that’s put 50 million people, including an estimated 21 million children,...
Millions of Somali children at risk of dying from starvation without immediate emergency support, warns World Vision
Highlights 7 million people face threat of starvation Worst drought in 40 years No rain likely for fifth consecutive year Children across Somalia facing unimaginable hardships and increased risks as the drought prolongs. Besides being displaced from their homes by the drought, children are...
World Vision Statement on Global Hunger Crisis
World Vision Statement on Global Hunger Crisis; Thanks Congress For Approving Additional Humanitarian Funding SEATTLE (May 19, 2022) — World Vision President and CEO, Edgar Sandoval Sr., issued the below statement following Congressional approval of $5.8 billion in international assistance: “Hunger is felt most...
Joint NGO Statement on Global Food Security and Conflict-Induced Hunger
Martin Mayiep Community Nutrition Worker checks Ayom’s son Manyiel MAUC on their first visit to the Warrap PHCC. Joint NGO Statement on Global Food Security and Conflict-Induced Hunger This week, world leaders will turn their attention to the global hunger crisis in two pivotal...
Fact Sheets and Extras
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Approximately 805 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about 1 in 9 people on earth. And that stat gets even sadder when you understand all of the impacts of malnutrition on the body — especially on a child.
Food security factsheet from InterAction (PDF)
Building on decades of U.S. investment in agricultural development, Feed the Future (a collaboration of USAID, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and the Treasury, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and five other agencies, including World Vision, work to decrease hunger around the world) supports countries in the development and implementation of their own food security strategies.
Leveraging food assistance for a hunger-free world (PDF)
This report documents World Vision’s experience in six countries (Uganda, Lesotho, Niger, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, and Kenya). In 2013, 30% of World Vision’s food assistance (Food and Cash for Assets) programs incorporated resilience-building elements to address the root causes of hunger and reduce the need for emergency relief in the future.
The social, environmental and economic benefits of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration PDF
New report explores benefits of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration to help farmers regreen Africa.