Executive Director

Eliminating poverty and hunger is the number one target of the Millennium Development Goals - endorsed not only by the UN but by the leaders of all of our countries. Poverty has been reduced in many developing countries; and with regard to hunger, WFP can testify that it has "graduated" many of them from the ranks of food aid recipients: China is the most recent in a list that also includes the Philippines, Brazil and Mexico. And yet, five years after the Summit that proclaimed those noble goals, we are badly lagging. The second Millennium goal - achieving universal primary education - will also not be achieved until children get enough to eat.