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The World Food Programme is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and the leading provide
Empty sack of the World Food Programme
The headquarters in Rome
WFP truck in Dnipro, Ukraine, during Russian invasion in Ukraine.
The World Food Program hands off high-energy biscuits to civilians at a Liberian port during the Second Civil War.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its
World Food Programme
…provide food assistance in areas of conflict and to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war and conflict. WFP was established in 1961 after the 1960 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference, when George McGovern, director of the US Food for Peace Programmes, proposed establishing a multilateral food aid programme. WFP…
FAO Commemorative 1998 30th Anniv MM Programme Bronze Obverse
Lester Bowles Pearson presiding at a plenary session of the founding conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. October 1945.
FAO Headquarters in Rome
Liaison Office for North America in Washington, D.C.