"Severe child food poverty" is on the rise, affecting 181 million young kids. Here's how families cope when their kids are hungry and they can't afford to put 3 nutritious meals a day on the table.

It is the world's largest displacement crisis: 13 million people have fled their homes in war-torn Sudan. In neighboring Chad, both refugees and locals cope with this extraordinary upheaval.

A program of the US Department of Agriculture aimed at stemming child hunger during the summer school break has officially begun in Georgia.

People in Macon waited for hours for boxes of fresh produce. Some said they were driven there by inflated grocery bills.

A new report shows that tens of millions of children around the world are not getting enough to eat. This leaves a staggering number of kids under five with diseases associated with malnutrition which often impair a child's development and therefore their future prospects as well.

Palestinians in Gaza tell NPR they've resorted to boiling weeds in seawater, eating animal feed and grinding date pits. "If the bombs don't kill us, the hunger will," a teenage girl says.

A report out this week says hunger, malnutrition and even starvation are widespread in Gaza, but stopped short of declaring it a 'famine.' Here's a primer on what that means, and who gets to decide.

Family clans in Gaza are being called on to help distribute aid to a starving population. Here's why it matters and how it could shape postwar security.

In Boulder, Colorado, officials realized there were many people who needed access to fruits and vegetables but didn't qualify for federal food assistance.

Weight-loss medications tamp down hunger — often dramatically — causing some people to lose the pleasure of communing over food at a festive family meal.

17 million U.S. households were food insecure in 2022. That's 3.5 million more than the prior year. Families with children and people of color experienced higher than average rates of food insecurity.

Some members want to use the package for changes that could expand or limit access to the country's biggest food safety net program.

Bibb County Schools are seeing success in a monthslong pilot of a program aimed at empowering students to help steer food to their hungry classmates.

The White House is working with private companies like DoorDash and Instacart to try to make healthy food more accessible. It also named Olympic athletes to a council focused on nutrition.

Two organizations, one for profit and one nonprofit, are working together to address food insecurity in the Atlanta metro area. They held a ribbon cutting for a new project this week.