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Aid professionals
8 February 2010

WFP's Emergency Veteran Tapped For Deputy Executive Director Slot

Ramiro Lopes da Silva of Portugal, a veteran of key WFP emergency operations around the world, is to take over as the organization's Deputy Executive Director of External Relations, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran announced to the agency's executive board on Monday.

Responding to Emergencies
3 February 2010

Haiti: Women Take Lead As Food Coupons System Rolls Out

As WFP’s food coupon system ensures delivery of two weeks of rice rations, women are always at the front of the line at the 16 fixed distribution points in the Haitian capital. It’s part of a system that ensures the weakest don’t get left behind.

Nutrition
1 February 2010

Haiti: Sweet, Nutritious Porridge Keeps Kids Cheerful

In the coastal town of Jacmel, south of Port-au-Prince, WFP is providing hot meals for an average 24,000 people each day through a network of field kitchens. Children are receiving a nutritional boost with an extra daily meal of WFP’s vitamin-rich porridge -- which they seem to love!
29 January 2010

Davos: 70 Leaders Discuss Haiti and Nutrition

The snow was falling as about 70 guests arrived for WFP’s annual dinner-discussion forum with international leaders at the World Economic Forum at Davos. The event was sponsored and co-hosted by Peter Bakker (photo ...
Nutrition
29 January 2010

Davos: YUM! Brands Is WFP's Partner Of The Year

WFP’s Tent at Davos was packed on Thursday night for the annual dinner-discussion forum with international leaders. At the start of the evening, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran announced WFP’s Partner of ...
Nutrition
28 January 2010

Davos: CEOs brainstorm with WFP on nutrition

CEO’s arrived at early today at the WFP Tent in Davos – for a day focused on fighting under-nutrition for children two years old and younger.
Nutrition
28 January 2010

Davos soundbites: "Public-private partnerships are vital"

Public-private partnerships are going to be crucial in the fight against hunger and malnutrition -- this idea has really been reinforced for me here at Davos, says Perry Yeatman, Senior Vice President (Corporate Affairs) Kraft ...
Nutrition
28 January 2010

Davos soundbites: "Malnutrition is solvable"

If you look around the world there is concrete evidence that malnutrition is a solvable problem, says Simon Maxwell, a senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute in the UK.
28 January 2010

Davos: 5 Key Facts on Malnutrition

During Davos, WFP is aiming to get more public and private players engaged in the battle against malnutrition. Through informal conversations and scheduled events, we will explain that malnutrition is a truly global ...
Nutrition
27 January 2010

Davos: Keeping Hunger On The Radar

WFP is participating in the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland, to ensure that hunger  -- and nutrition in particular -- remains on the radar of global leaders. The gathering brings together people of ...

Worth reading

Thought-provoking articles that deal with hunger and the issues involved in meeting the hunger challenge.

  • Global Food for Thought

    Outrage and Inspire

    His travels may take him to Ethiopia, Malawi, Lesotho or to the far corners of Ireland. His meetings may be with heads of state, parliamentarians, budgetary bean counters or with farmers and school children. His missions may range from promoting new conservation tilling techniques to considering the role of breast pumps in improving infant nutrition in Africa.
  • Financial Times

    How to feed people and save the planet

    Barely had the dust settled in the wake of Haiti’s worst earthquake in two centuries when international aid agencies began the rush to help. A priority was to feed the devastated Caribbean country’s population. Yet added to immediate catastrophes such as Haiti’s is the long-term need to secure global food supplies in the face of rising population, climate change and climbing food prices.
  • Global Food for Thought

    Outrage & Inspire

    They were listening in the hills of Rwanda a year ago when a new American president, this one with African lineage, took the oath of office. Minutes into his inaugural address, Barack Obama stirred their hopes: “To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow, to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.”
  • Scidev Net

    Urgent action needed to tackle malnutrition

    Science can help design strategies to tackle malnutrition. The challenge is turning this knowledge into action. Improving nutrition in the developing world has never been more important. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, more than a billion people — one sixth of the global population — have a diet so poor they may be severely underweight, have stunted growth, or lack the vitamins and minerals they need for good health (all are aspects of severe malnutrition, or undernutrition).
  • Reliefweb

    The Haiti catastrophe: lessons learned from previous operations

    International aid is not about making miracles happen. It is about the attempted delivery of life-saving and livelihood-restoring assistance to people in dire conditions, in ways that are equitable, impartial and according to needs. The international humanitarian system does this job reasonably well, and is slowly getting better, as a forthcoming ALNAP report, The State of the Humanitarian System, highlights.