United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva announced today their appointment of David Beasley of the United States as Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Under-Secretary-General level.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by David Nabarro, Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Food and Nutrition Security, to the World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Board in Rome today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Food Programme (WFP) annual World Leaders Dinner at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Food Programme Hunger Hero Award Ceremony: Tribute to Princess Haya, in Davos, Switzerland, today:
The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today:
| Press Release WFP/1069 |
‘WORLD FOOD PRIZE’ AWARDED TO FORMER HEAD OF UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
Secretary-General Says Leadership Has Put
Programme on Front Lines of Global Fight against Hunger, Scourge of Famine
| Press Release WFP/1062 |
NORTH KOREA STILL NEEDS FOOD AID DESPITE BEST HARVEST IN SIX YEARS
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ROME, 26 October (FAO/WFP) --The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is likely to record its best harvest for six years, but with domestic food production still well below consumption requirements, the country will again need substantial external assistance in 2002, two United Nations agencies said today.
| Press Release WFP/1061 |
HUNGER THREATENS HALF MILLION SOMALIS
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NAIROBI, 22 August (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that more than half a million Somalis face a serious food crisis, following the almost total failure of the main rains in southern Somalia.
| Press Release WFP/1059 |
WFP WARNS OF POTENTIAL FOOD CRISIS IN CHECHNYA
ROME, 14 May (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urgently appealed for support to avert a potential food crisis in the northern Caucasus region of the Russian Federation, particularly Chechnya, after a severe shortfall in donations forced the agency to scale back drastically on food aid distributions despite severely deteriorating conditions there.
ROME/PRAGUE 14 September (FAO) -- With school milk subsidies cut by 20 per cent in the European Union this year, the second European School Milk Conference opened today in Prague for two days with more than 20 countries represented, according to an announcement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
