At the No Limits food pantry in Landover, Md., the line of people waiting to get in on Dec. 6, 2024, stretches to the street and down the block. Dee Dwyer/for NPR hide caption
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Toyin Salami of Lagos, Nigeria, with her 4-year-old daughter, Kudirat. Her husband, Saheed, tends to two of their other children. "It's hard to get food, let alone nutritious food," she says. Sope Adelaja for NPR hide caption
Wednesday
Suad Abdulaziz Hamid Ahmed, 29, sits with her 5 children, plus some of her sister's children in the spontaneous settlement in Adré. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
The arrival of refugees from Sudan add to the food strains in eastern Chad
Thursday
A UNICEF report reveals more than 180 million children aren't getting anywhere near the nutrition they need. The problem is so severe, the report says, these kids suffer from the devastating effects of malnutrition. Some countries, however, have shown that it is possible to reduce what the report calls child food poverty. Discha-AS/Getty Images hide caption
1 in 4 children globally lives in severe child food poverty, UNICEF report says
Friday
A Palestinian boy waits with his pot among a crowd in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, while trying to get a small amount of soup from one of the few soup kitchens, on Feb. 26. Omar El Qattaa for NPR hide caption
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Palestinian people with empty bowls wait for food at a donation point in Rafah. A report out this week shows widespread hunger and malnutrition in Gaza but stopped short of declaring it a "famine." Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
A man carries a cardboard box of food aid provided by nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on March 17, amid the conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People in Gaza are starving to death. 5 things to know about efforts to feed them
Monday
Maribel Martinez shops the produce section at King Sooper's in Boulder, Colo., the day after picking up her Fruit & Veg coupons. Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR hide caption
To get fresh vegetables to people who need them, one city puts its soda tax to work
Wednesday
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The increase in food insecurity in 2022 reverses a decade-long decline in the number of U.S. households experiencing hunger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Millions of American families struggle to get food on the table, report finds
Tuesday
Volunteer Ella Cagle of Wake Forest loads bags with frozen meat. The food bank serves individuals and families in need with a week's worth of groceries. Eamon Queeney for NPR hide caption
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In this 2021 file photo, NBA star Steph Curry talks to kids in Oakland, Calif., about nutrition and exercise. Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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A little girl clutches a small bag of rice — leftovers from a meal she was served at a free-food hall at a sprawling shrine to the Sufi saint Bari Imam on the outskirts of Pakistani capital Islamabad. Many visitors to the shrine scoop up the free meal they are given into plastic bags to feed children at home. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
The proud Pakistani tradition of feeding the hungry is strained as food prices soar
Friday
A girl poses for a portrait in a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Baidoa, Somalia, on Dec. 14. As people flee their homes because of drought, famine and fighting, camps have sprung up this year around the Somali capital and other cities. Luke Dray for NPR hide caption
This is what displaced Somalians want you to know about their humanitarian crisis
Saturday
Mariam Kasim sits with her grandson, who she says is suffering from measles and malnutrition, at a camp on the outskirts of Baidoa, Somalia, on Tuesday. Luke Dray for NPR hide caption