Sweden's Skau named acting head of UN World Food Programme

ROME, June 2 (Reuters) - Swedish diplomat Carl Skau has assumed the role of acting executive director of the World Food ...
Forbes

The World Food Programme: Partnering For ‘Hands Up’ Solutions

In 1961 the Eisenhower administration played a key role in the establishment of the World Food Programme (WFP) - an experimental effort to provide food through the United Nations to people around the ...
The Business Standard

Why does the World Food Programme fear a major hunger crisis in 2026?

The UN World Food Programme warns that the conflict involving Iran is worsening global hunger by driving up food and energy costs. Millions more people in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka are ...
CNN

It was created as an experiment. Now the World Food Programme sends food to tens of millions of people every year

The World Food Programme, which won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, delivered food to 97 million people last year. The United Nations agency, created as an experiment in 1961 after a request by ...
PBS

World Food Programme director discusses how to address growing global hunger

The causes of global hunger are many and well-known: conflict, climate and in too many cases, cruelty. But it is the job of the United Nations World Food Programme to push through those barriers to ...
UNHCR

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) works closely with UNHCR during emergencies and longer-term crises to provide food to uprooted people around the world, especially vulnerable groups such as women and ...