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 United Nations’ World Food Programme has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to combat hunger around the world, beating favorites Greta Thunberg and the World Health Organization. The ...

"We've got a vaccine against starvation. It's called food," said David Beasley. David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Programme, knows the existence of his organization is both a ...

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 ...

The Weeknd was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. “The U.N. World Food Programme is doing urgent and important work to change ...

The objectives of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons are to promote effective measures for prevention of disability, rehabilitation and the realization of the goals of ''full ...

World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley was in the Niger capital Niamey in the Sahel—a vast sweep of semi-arid land that separates the Sahara from the Savannah—when he got the call from ...

The Nobel committee said the U.N. agency’s work to address hunger had laid the foundations for peace in nations ravaged by war. By Megan Specia and Matina Stevis-Gridneff The World Food Program was ...

The #YouthNow Campaign marks the 20th Anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth leading up to a Special Session of the General Assembly on May 29, 2015 commemorating this landmark ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to share with you the first Issue of Urban Notebooks dedicated to the World Heritage Cities community! We are in the midst of the global pandemic. Lives ...