World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP, in collaboration with the NTB provincial government, has been helping the most vulnerable households to address short-term food insecurity and to build agricultural and rural infrastructure that benefits their communities in the medium and long term.

JAKARTA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) honours World Food Day (16 October) by reaffirming its dedication to work with communities, civil society, governments and the private sector to end hunger in our lifetimes.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation of nearly US$700,000 from the Government of Japan to support the organisation’s innovative schools meals programme and wider efforts to tackle food insecurity in Papua province.

Marking 2012 National Nutrition Day of Indonesia, WFP in Indonesia is highlighting its partnership with the Government in the fight against under-nutrition.

Jakarta – The Government of Indonesia today welcomed Project Laser Beam (PLB), a groundbreaking public-private partnership to end child malnutrition, as a critical initiative to help achieve their goal of ending child hunger and poverty. The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum East Asia, in Jakarta.

ROME– Tens of thousands of people yesterday took to the streets in cities around the world to show their support for the work of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the fight against global hunger.

Expressing their “deepest concern”, the three Rome-based UN Agencies – FAO, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development – warned today that climate change is a major challenge to world food security and will increase hunger and malnutrition unless immediate action is taken.

WFP has kicked off a critical initiative to assist Indonesia in providing food for the nation\'s hungry poor and called on international donors to contribute urgently to a new three year US$98 million program for food aid for the country.

FAO has called for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the world's hundreds of millions of hungry people.