See the hunger gap — send the right pound of food.
ActSmall · Food is a free, map-first food-insecurity portal. The map opens on the country with the steepest acute hunger gap right now — sourced live from the World Food Programme — and shows you, as a normal person, the highest-leverage thing you can do this weekend. No accounts. No tracking. Nothing for sale.
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This site is not nutritional, medical, or famine-response advice. For acute hunger or any incident, contact qualified local people. Get help →
Two pounds, one Saturday
The two highest-leverage things almost any person can do for food security this weekend are very simple, and they don’t involve sending money overseas:
Drop two cans at a local food bank
Regional food-bank networks reach hundreds of millions of people every year combined: Feeding America (~50M/yr), the European Food Banks Federation (~13M/yr across 30 countries), the Global FoodBanking Network (operating in ~50 countries), the Trussell Trust (UK), Food Banks Canada, Foodbank Australia, Akshaya Patra (India), and many national and city-level operators. They need shelf-stable protein, infant formula, and fresh produce in equal measure. Your local pantry publishes a current need-list on its website — the map links you straight to it.
Set up a $5 / month gift
Vetted aid agencies (WFP, GiveDirectly, World Central Kitchen) report 1 USD = 4 hot meals or roughly 2 kg of grain in a low-cost-of-living country. A standing $5 / month gift to one trusted operator outperforms every one-shot Christmas drive in real-world feeding.
Don’t throw out food
About 30% of all food produced is wasted before it’s eaten. The waste happens equally in fields, on supermarket shelves, and in your fridge. Fixing the last one — meal planning, freezing leftovers, eating odd-shaped vegetables — is the cheapest and most direct climate + food-security move you have.
What the map shows
WFP HungerMap LIVE
The current proportion of each country’s population in insufficient food consumption, sourced from the World Food Programme HungerMap — their live mobile-survey + earth-observation pipeline. Updated daily.
IPC / CH famine classifications
Where the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has assessed Phase 3 (Crisis), 4 (Emergency), or 5 (Famine), the country is flagged in red on the map and the actions list shifts to acute-emergency operators.
Country need notes
Where there is published primary text from FAO, the WFP country office, or the IPC technical report, the popup shows a one-paragraph quote and a deep-link to the source document.
Local food-bank gateway
For every region with a major food-bank network — Feeding America, Trussell Trust (UK), Food Banks Canada, Foodbank Australia, European Food Banks Federation — a click maps to the “find a pantry” page in the user’s own region.
Cross-link to disaster appeals
If the WFP / IPC flag overlaps with a live IFRC GO appeal, both links surface in the popup — because food crises and emergency disasters frequently coincide.
Your own pins
Drop a pin on your local food bank, your community fridge, your church pantry. Saved only in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
From recognition to action, in one click
Every map click picks the single highest-leverage thing you can do based on what the live data is showing:
See the active feeding response
Where IPC Phase 3+ is active (acute crisis), the recommender surfaces the operator running the response — usually the WFP’s emergency feeding programme or World Central Kitchen — so you can read the situation report straight from the source.
Find your local food bank
For developed-country residents (most readers), the headline is the local food-bank network. The map deep-links to the regional locator so you find the pantry closest to you in two clicks.
Cut household food waste
If no acute crisis is flagged near you, the action shifts to your own kitchen: roughly a third of the food produced globally is wasted, and a meaningful share of that is at the household stage. Small habits (planned shopping, freezing leftovers, using the freezer aisle) move the number measurably.
Volunteer locally
Most local food banks are short on volunteer hours, not money. A two-hour weekly slot at a food sorting line is more useful than $50 in many regions.
Email a representative
For long-running food-policy fights — EU CAP reform, US SNAP funding, India’s PDS reform, UK free-school-meals expansion, Brazilian zero-hunger programmes, and the agricultural-subsidy and conflict-driven famine debates almost everywhere — every primary action carries a one-click Email a representative button that uses the official ministry or parliament channels we have verified.
Tell two people
If nothing acute is signalled near you, the action becomes multiplication: forward the live view to two people via your phone’s share sheet.
Below every primary action sit three small affordances: Mark done (your own private log), 30-day reminder (downloads a calendar event), Tell two people (your share sheet). Nothing is tracked, gamified, or sent anywhere.
How the data stays current
A small scheduled job pulls the WFP HungerMap LIVE country snapshot once a day (which already includes IPC / Cadre Harmonisé Phase 3+ population counts and conflict / climate alert flags), normalizes the result, and serves a single tiny JSON file to everyone who visits. Your browser only ever talks to our own server for the data layers. The cadence matches HungerMap’s own daily publication rhythm, which keeps us a polite and predictable client of WFP’s public service.
Read more in methodology. Source code lives publicly — everything you see can be inspected.