About Zero Hunger Lab

How can our hunger for data also solve world hunger?

The hunger problem in the world is enormous. Tonight, according to the United Nations, as many as 783 million people will go to bed hungry. Every ten seconds a child dies somewhere in our world as a result of hunger and malnutrition.

Tilburg University's Zero Hunger Lab helps with data science to realize global food security. We call it bytes for bites.

Our mission is to make people independent of food aid so that they can ensure sustainable food security themselves. We do this not only in Africa, Asia or the Middle East, but also in the Netherlands where more than 160,000 people depend on the Food Banks for their 'daily bread'. 

More than twenty researchers from Tilburg University are active in the lab. They work together on more than forty research projects with numerous partners such as: World Food Programme, Food Banks Netherlands, ZOA, World Vision, Welthungerhilfe, Oxfam, World Bank, INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group, Wageningen University & Research and Nuffic.

Read more on our research and projects: Website Zero Hunger Lab

Become inspired by our stories: Zero Hunger Lab special (English) by New Scientist - Issuu