World Food Programme

...Of Access To Conflict Displaced New York, Nov 24 2009 12:10PM The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today highlighted her continued concern about safe humanitarian access to civilians displaced by fighting...

In this article: WFP, Yemen, Habitat for Humanity, Geneva, New York, Vietnam, and Thailand

Climate change and the other factors that caused the run-up in food prices last year remain risks, said Josette Sheeran, head of the UN's World Food Program. "I don't think it was a one-off phenomenon," Sheeran said. "I think what it...

In this article: Robert Zoellick, World Bank, World Food Program, The World Bank, UN, Climate change, Brookings Institution, and Josette Sheeran

...system in the western Indian Ocean two years ago, not a single ship heading to Somalia with UN World Food Programme (WFP) aid has been attacked. "WFP has been able to scale up its operations, providing much-needed food assistance to...

In this article: WFP, Ban Ki-moon, Somalia, Indian Ocean, Habitat for Humanity, Security Council, London, and New York

...Conference, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan met with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP), and Akram Musa Hadi Al Hakim, Iraq s Acting Minister of Agriculture. "The World Food Program works...

In this article: World Food Program, Iraq, Food and Agriculture Organization, USDA, United States, Rome, U.S. Department of State, and Josette Sheeran

...crisis, Doubletree has pledged to contribute $0.05 for every non-perishable food item donated to Friends of the World Food Program (Friends of WFP), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that builds support for WFP operations. Funds will be...

In this article: WFP, Hilton Grand Vacations, United Nations, and Food waste

...Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world's hungry by supporting the "Billion...

In this article: Josette Sheeran, Medical advice, Food and Agriculture Organization, Diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's, UN, Rhode Island Hospital, Rome, and Berlin

...factors have made the Horn of Africa one of the world's most critical hunger areas, with some 23 million people short of food. The World Food Program will need $1 billion to provide food aid in the next six months in the region that...

In this article: United Nations, Oxfam, Jacques Diouf, Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Program, Silvio Berlusconi, and Ethiopia

...countries. But new government donors and all world citizens must step forward to fill the gap. At the start of the World Food Summit, WFP reached out to the world with "A Billion for a Billion, " our first internet citizen appeal at...

In this article: WFP and World Summit

he World Food Programme, facing a major funding shortfall as donor governments are hit by the financial crisis, is appealing directly to one billion individuals to give small amounts of cash to beat hunger. Josette Sheeran, head of the...

In this article: U.N. and Josette Sheeran

...three years to boost agricultural output in poor countries, reducing the need for the food aid provided by WFP. "Our missions at FAO and WFP are very different but can be complementary. Our joint message to the world is that we have to do...

In this article: Josette Sheeran, Food and Agriculture Organization, Revenue, Rome, Biofuel, G8, and Horn of Africa