Funding shortages force slash in food rations for displaced Azeris

Baku WFP said a shortage in funding is forcing it to cut desperately needed food rations to tens of thousands of impoverished Azeris displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict a decade ago.

Only peace can put an end to food crisis in DRC warns WFP's top official

Nairobi / Kinshasa Severe food shortages and malnutrition will continue to plague hundreds of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo unless insecurity comes to an end, warns Sheila Sisulu, the Deputy Executive Director of WFP.

WFP and World Vision target schools to help keep children HIV/AIDS free

Rome In the lead up to World AIDS Day (1 December), the heads of WFP and World Vision joined forces to urge a massive increase in donor funds for school feeding -- a largely untapped yet effective way to attract children to school and stem HIV/AIDS infections among the young.

North Korea has bigger harvest, but millions still need food aid

Pyongyang/Rome - Despite its best harvest in ten years, the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will post another substantial food deficit in 2005 and require external aid to support more than a quarter of its 23.7 million people, WFP and the FAO said in a joint press release.