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From the conflicts in Syria and Central African Republic to the super typhoon in the Philippines, 2013 threw up a challenging sequence of emergencies to WFP and its humanitarian partners. But there were also new findings about school meals and encouraging stories from former aid recipients. Here are 12 photos that look back on a year in WFP's fight against hunger.
WFP/Sabrina Quezada HondurasJanuary
A 'coffee rust' plague hit many farmers in Honduras and Guatemala as 2013 began, destroying crops and livelihoods. In the months that followed, WFP provided food to struggling farmers as they worked to get back on their feet. View gallery
Tweet WFP/Abeer Etefa SyriaFebruary
As the conflict grinds on in Syria, many families find themselves dependent on food aid to survive. WFP scales up its operations inside and outside Syria in an operation which rapidly becomes the organization's most complex emergency worldwide. See video
TweetWFP/Rein Skullerud
MaliMarch
WFP's Executive Director Ertharin Cousin travels to Mali, a country still feeling the effects of conflict and drought in 2012. She underlines the importance of ensuring young children in the Sahel region continue to receive the nutrition they need. Read blog
Tweet WFP/David Orr DR CongoApril
Josephine Ilunga was among 650 people involved in a project to build fishponds and market gardens in the Katanga region of DRC. Participants received WFP food coupons as they built sources of food for the future. Learn More
TweetWFP/Deepesh Shrestha
School MealsMay
A groundbreaking report by WFP finds that one in five of the world's children gets a meal at school every day. Yet where the need is greatest - in low-income countries - the proportion of children reached is at its lowest, the research shows. Read more
French Army/Michel Maure
JordanJune
An aerial shot of Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, the destination of many Syrians fleeing conflict in their country. In one year, the camp grew from nothing to become home for over 100,000 people. WFP provides food for all of them. See video
TweetWFP/Peter Mumo
KenyaJuly
Peter Mumo, 25, now has a good job and perfectly able to support himself and his family. But he grew up in poverty and he says his escape from that poverty was in part due to WFP school meals. He told us his fascinating story. Read more
TweetWFP/George Fominyen
South SudanAugust
After an outbreak of violence in South Sudan's Jonglei State, WFP organised an airlift of food for thousands of families who had taken refuge in areas that were impossible to reach quickly by truck or other means. See gallery
Tweet WFP/Emanuela Cutelli JordanSeptember
As Syrian families continued to flee the conflict in their country, WFP began distributing food vouchers to refugees in Zaatari refugee camp. Vouchers, which are also being used in Lebanon, inject money into the economies of host communities. Learn more
Tweet WFP/Bettina Luescher World Food DayOctober
WFP private sector partners stepped up on World Food Day to help us get out the message about global hunger. Fashion designer Michael Kors made sure that anyone passing through Times Square, New York, got the message loud and clear. Read More
Tweet WFP/Marco Frattini PhilippinesNovember
Super Typhoon Haiyan swept across the central Philippines, leaving a path of death and destructions. Working with the government, WFPrushed in emergency relief supplies and provided critical logistics and telecoms support.. See gallery
Tweet WFP/Unicef CARDecember
An upsurge of fighting in the Central African Republic forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, creating a humanitarian emergency. WFP is on the ground providing food assistance in the capital Bangui and in the northwest. Watch video
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