Work & Stories

Every dispatch is a debt repaid to the harvest.

Why We Do What We Do

Hunger, poverty, and the destruction of natural resources are deeply connected. World Food Bank works to reverse that cycle.

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Kentucky Flood Response: Relief Vaults Deployed in 72 Hours

Disaster Relief

Eastern Kentucky, USA

Kentucky Flood Response: Relief Vaults Deployed in 72 Hours

When catastrophic flooding cut off entire hollers in Eastern Kentucky, World Food Bank's mobile food security relief vaults were on the ground within 72 hours — water, shelter, food and security, delivered where roads no longer existed.

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The Grain Reserve: Banking the Harvest Against the Hungry Season

Our Model

East Africa

The Grain Reserve: Banking the Harvest Against the Hungry Season

Hunger is rarely about scarcity — it is about timing. World Food Bank's sustainable food systems let nations bank surplus harvests and draw them down when drought, flood or conflict strikes.

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9,700 Farmers, One Record Harvest: Maize in Hoima

Impact

Hoima, Uganda

9,700 Farmers, One Record Harvest: Maize in Hoima

How training more than 9,700 smallholder farmers in Hoima, Uganda, led to their largest maize crop ever and a Grade A quality rating.

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Millet Farmers of Kitui: From Subsistence to Market

Impact

Kitui County, Kenya

Millet Farmers of Kitui: From Subsistence to Market

In Kenya's arid Kitui County, drought-hardy millet was once dismissed as a poor person's crop. Today, WFB trade corridors are turning it into a premium commodity — and doubling smallholder incomes.

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Shamba Shape-Up: Farming Knowledge on Prime Time

Media & Education

Kenya & East Africa

Shamba Shape-Up: Farming Knowledge on Prime Time

Through our media partner Mediae, the hit TV program Shamba Shape-Up reaches millions of farming households each week — turning agronomy into entertainment and viewers into better farmers.

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ZeroFriction: Moving Grain at the Speed of Need

Our Model

Global Logistics Network

ZeroFriction: Moving Grain at the Speed of Need

Food aid often arrives months late and dollars short. ZeroFriction, WFB's logistics framework, cuts the distance between surplus and shortage to days — with every truckload tracked and accountable.

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Operation Regen: Restoring Soil, Restoring Livelihoods

Impact

Sub-Saharan Africa

Operation Regen: Restoring Soil, Restoring Livelihoods

With Farm Hero, WFB's Operation Regen brings depleted farmland back to life — cover crops, compost, and farmer-led training that rebuilds topsoil one field at a time.

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Impact

Angola

Rebuilding Angola's Farms: A Plan Built in the Field

How touring Angola's state farms with the military leaders who run them led to a multi-year, government-adopted plan to restore rice, maize, soybean and poultry production.

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Impact

Ethiopia

Feeding Ethiopia From Its Own Fields

How a national plan, a five-year contract and one simple question (will people actually eat this?) shaped World Food Bank's work in Ethiopia.

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Hamara: Putting a Whole Value Chain in Every Farmer's Pocket

Impact

Zambia

Hamara: Putting a Whole Value Chain in Every Farmer's Pocket

Why World Food Bank, through Mediae Group Ltd, invested in Hamara, the farmer app that turns small farms into businesses, and how we put it to work with farmer clubs in Zambia.

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Impact

Zambia

From Chickens to Soil to Market: Building a Farming Ecosystem in Zambia

How farmer clubs, poultry training, financed feed, a farmer app and a grocery chain came together to help Zambian farmers grow more and sell with confidence.

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