The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed the strong backing it received from Pope John Paul II who urged the international community to provide financial support to the agency's global school feeding programme.
Despite an improvement in the overall food situation in sub-Saharan Africa, millions of people continue to face hunger and starvation, according to new findings by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The head of the United Nations food agency told European legislators today that national parliaments had an important role to play in reducing the severe distortions in global agricultural markets and establishing a more equitable international trading system for farmers.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is nearing its targets for getting enough food into Afghanistan to feed the country's beleaguered people in the winter months ahead, a spokesman for the agency said today.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is pressing ahead with food deliveries to Afghanistan, where the coming winter is expected to complicate relief efforts in the war-devastated and drought-stricken country, a WFP spokesman said today.
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has denounced the "tragedy of hunger" in a world of abundance and waste, calling it "a troubling reality."
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported today that despite the deteriorating security conditions in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the agency is continuing to aid poor people there.
A key United Nations conference on food security has been postponed until next June in the wake of the terror attacks against the United States and the subsequent events in Afghanistan, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.
The deepening food crisis in Afghanistan is threatening the country's people with mass starvation, according to a special report released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
