WFP

On 10 November, CERN and the World Food Programme (WFP) took a significant step in formalising their partnership by signing a memorandum of cooperation (MoC). This MoC paves the way for joint initiatives in which CERN’s...

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP28), and Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), made calls today for swift action to increase climate action...

On October 30, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of Women Affairs (DWA) jointly hosted a dissemination workshop on learnings from a digital financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment study produced by...

The World Food Programme warned that 24 million more people risked being driven to the point of starvation because of the significant reduction in financing that was causing it to drastically cut rations in several programs....

Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK) organized a payout event at the District Commissioner’s Office in Kurigram to celebrate the disbursal of a payout worth BDT 15,70,234 made to 1,200 farmers of Kurigram Sadar, Rajarhat, and Chilmari upazila...

The first UN-chartered vessel set to transport grain from Ukraine under a deal to relieve a global food crisis should dock in Ukraine on Friday, the United Nations said. The MV Brave Commander, which left Istanbul...

The World Bank released $100 million Thursday for the World Food Programme to tackle “deep food insecurity” for two million people in Sudan, where aid was suspended following an October coup. The funds will help provide...

The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, has warned the conflict in Ukraine could send global food prices soaring, with a catastrophic impact on the world’s poorest. Ukraine and Russia are both major exporters...

Bangladesh has been overwhelmingly elected as the president of the Rome-based World Food Programme’s (WFP) 36-member Executive Board for the year 2022. Md Shameem Ahsan, Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the FAO, IFAD,...

WFP’s ability to offer crucial monthly food aid to half a million Jordanian refugees has been hampered by a lack of cash. Due to a lack of money, the World Food Programme (WFP) had to suspend...