World Food Program stories:
World Leaders Agree to Boost Aid for Agriculture
Nov 16th, 2009 - VOA News
World leaders at a U.N. summit on food security in Rome are vowing to take "urgent action" to eliminate global hunger. But they did not agree in their final declaration to a U.N...UN Food Agency Says 200 Million More People Hungry
Oct 26th, 2009 - ABC News
Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N...
UN food agency says the world's poor and hungry paying more for food despite recession
Oct 26th, 2009 - SignOnSanDiego
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N...UN food agency says 1 billion people hungry, poor paying more for food despite recession
Oct 26th, 2009 - StarTribune
CANBERRA, Australia - Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N...More Than One Billion People Going Hungry
Oct 14th, 2009 - VOA News
United Nations food agencies report more than one billion people, or one sixth of the world's population, are going hungry. This report by the UN Food and Agriculture...
World Food Program videos from YouTube:
4:31World Food Programme Logistics; We Deliver
World Food Programme (WFP) Logistics delivers humanitarian aid to over 100 million people in 80 countries, in some of the world's most inhospitable locations. Land, sea or air; WFP Delivers!
0:46A message from the World Food Programme
This is a video that I made for an English project about agriculture. It's slightly more serious than my usual content, but please enjoy it anyway.
1:09A Billion for a Billion
If you're reading this, you can make a difference. It starts with one person: www.wfp.org ... billion views per day "world hunger" activism
0:31Ronaldinho/World Food Programme-World Cup TV spot
Brazilian football/soccer star Ronaldinho helps the UN's World Food Programme by eating a football.
World Food Program from WikiPedia:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization.. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children. From its headquarters in Rome and more than 80 country offices around the world, WFP works to help people who are unable to produce or obtain enough food for themselves and their families.
The WFP was first established at the 1960 Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Conference, when George McGovern, director of the US Food for Peace Programmes, proposed establishing a multilateral food aid programme. WFP was formally established in 1963 by the FAO and the United Nations General Assembly on a three-year experimental basis. In 1965, the programme was extended to a continuing basis.
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