A Comprehensive Approach to Ending Global Hunger Decades of
research and action on the problem of hunger have shown that a
comprehensive approach comprising a broad range of activities is
required. This comprehensive strategy, which would also ensure
that gender and natural resource management principles are
integrated throughout, is based on four main categories:
Emergency programs are essential for meeting basic human needs
in the wake of a natural disaster, conflict, or acute economic
difficulties. With natural disasters increasing in number by 400
percent over the past two decades and the number of people
displaced by conflict and violence rising from 17.4 to 27.5
million since 1997, these programs are more important than ever.
Drought in the Sahel region has brought hunger to millions of
people for the third time in recent years. See how WFP and its
partners are responding to this emergency and bringing food
assistance to more than 10 million people in eight countries.
Safety net programs, like school fe