The video game idea that caused a walkout | UNICEF. WFP Fights Malnutrition With Airdrops In South Sudan. European Union Helps Treat Moderate Acute Malnutrition Among Young Children In Sudan. South Sudan: ‘Food Alone Is Not Enough’ Why I'm Fighting Hunger - Peter Bakker, former CEO of TNT. 'Why I Came To Help Fight Ebola' Working Together For Zero Hunger. Introducing WFP Logistics. Ebonomics: The Price Of Keeping The Ebola Crisis From Becoming A Hunger Crisis. Who are the hungry? Most of the world’s hungry live in developing countries. According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics from 2015, there are 795 million hungry people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries.
They are distributed like this: Rural risk Three-quarters of all hungry people live in rural areas, mainly in the villages of Asia and Africa. Hungry farmers FAO calculates that around half of the world's hungry people are from smallholder farming communities, surviving off marginal lands prone to natural disasters like drought or flood. The remaining 20 percent live in shanty towns on the periphery of the biggest cities in developing countries.
Children An estimated 146 million children in developing countries are underweight - the result of acute or chronic hunger (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2009). Women Around 50 per cent of pregnant women in developing countries are iron deficient (source: Unicef). Online Game “Food Force” Puts Players On Front Lines Of Hunger. Food Force is a game on Facebook which puts players at the helm of the world's biggest humanitarian aid agency. Start playing Food Force WFP and KONAMI Digital Entertainment have teamed up to create an online game with a real-world impact. Food Force puts players at the helm of the world’s largest humanitarian aid agency. It combines the multiplayer fun of other popular social media games with the ability to provide real meals to hungry children around the globe.
Start playing Food Force! ROME – Food Force puts gamers in charge of their own aid agencies, fighting hunger around the globe as they deliver food, respond to emergencies and manage their resources. Food Force packs all of the strategy and networking elements key to the success of other social media games while also allowing players the chance to make a real difference in the lives of hungry children.
Social media driven Like many other popular online games, players access the game through the social networking site Facebook.