With the latest tech UN seeks to end hunger Silicon Valley style

Huge ambitions: The World Food Programme's new innovation hub, launched in Munich, is looking for new technologies to help reach the goal of zero hunger.

ROME: From a smartphone app delivering market prices to Guatemalan farmers to online nutrition tips in rural Colombia, the push to end hunger has entered a new era with the UN food agency deploying the latest technology to fight it.

The World Food Programme's (WFP) new innovation hub, launched in Munich this week with the support of the German government, will seek out new technologies to help reach the goal of zero hunger faster.