New food alert platform helps humanitarians combat hunger By Ed de Bray 16 April 2026 Economic Development The UN World Food Programme (WFP) released its next-generation platform on Thursday known as  HungerMap Live , a digital monitoring and intelligence site that integrates food security data with predictive modelling to help fight hunger in more than 50 countries. Bringing together data from more than 300 analysts and dozens of trusted partners – including government-validated statistics, hunger classification index the IPC, agricultural and economic data – the map provides the most complete and up-to-date picture of hunger facing the world’s most vulnerable.…