News Releases
Official statements announcing key developments in WFP operations and activities.
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27 September 2010
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran Pledge to Redouble Efforts to Help the Poor and Hungry
We have signed a Cooperation Framework Agreement which aims to redouble our efforts to help the poor and hungry.
Purchase for Progress
24 September 2010
Statement By WFP Executive Director On Purchase For Progress And Millennium Development Goals
NEW YORK -- Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the most urgent one – to reduce the proportion of hungry people in the world by half by 2015 – requires not just shared vision and commitment but shared action on the ground. Today the solutions to ending hunger and poverty often involve a whole range of players working together in innovative ways.
Zynga
22 September 2010
World Food Programme Announces Bold Partnership with Private Sector to Cut Hunger
New York - The World Food Programme is joining hands with private sector companies to develop innovative hunger solutions, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran announced today, following a major gathering of private sector companies during the United Nations General Assembly.
Responding to Emergencies
17 September 2010
WFP Expands Emergency Operation in Pakistan: US$600 mln Needed for Relief and Recovery
ROME –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged donors to provide additional financial support to meet urgent needs and help build the bridge between emergency food assistance and long term recovery in Pakistan.
16 September 2010
Mounting Concern for the Hungry in Chad as Hope Rises in Niger
ROME – As harvest time approaches in the Eastern Sahel, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that rates of malnutrition among children remain at critical levels in Chad.
Responding to Emergencies
15 September 2010
FAO/IFAD/WFP to Accelerate Assistance to Pakistan Flood Victims
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) are working together to address urgent food security challenges in Pakistan, following the recent flood disaster which destroyed food stocks and approximately 10 percent of the country’s standing crops, leaving an estimated 10 million people vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. Cooperation between FAO, IFAD and WFP is a fundamental part of the recovery effort.
School Meals
7 September 2010
School Meals in Cape Verde: a National Success Story
ROME – After more than 30 years of collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), the Government of Cape Verde has today taken full ownership of its national school meals programme, setting an example for many other developing countries to follow.
Students And Teachers
7 September 2010
FreeRice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding the Hungry
ROME – Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you’d find on a boat?
Logistics
3 September 2010
Pakistan Operational Update
ISLAMABAD – A month after torrential monsoon rains caused Pakistan’s worst natural disaster , leaving flood victims at risk of hunger and disease, WFP is ramping up its emergency operation to ensure that the most vulnerable people continue to receive life-saving food assistance and children do not slip into malnutrition.
Responding to Emergencies
31 August 2010
UNICEF/WFP Chiefs Call for Renewed Support to Pakistan's Flood Victims
Islamabad – The Executive Directors of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called on the international community to step up their support for the victims of the ongoing floods in Pakistan.
