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World Food ProgrammeAbbreviationWFPFormation19 December 1961 (62 years ago) (19
December 1961)TypeIntergovernmental organization, regulatory body, advisory
boardLegal statusActiveHeadquartersRome, Italy
Head
Cindy McCain
Parent organization
United Nations General Assembly
Staff (2023)
22,300+[1]Award(s)Nobel Peace Prize (2020)Websitewfp.org Politics portal

The World Food Programme[a] (WFP) is an international organization within the
United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's
largest humanitarian organization[2][3] and the leading provider of school
meals.[4] Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80
countries.[5] As of 2021, it supported over 128 million people[6] across more
than 120 countries and territories.[7]

In addition to emergency food relief, WFP offers technical and development
assistance, such as building capacity for emergency preparedness and response,
managing supply chains and logistics, promoting social safety programs, and
strengthening resilience against climate change.[8] It is also a major provider
of direct cash assistance and medical supplies, and provides passenger services
for humanitarian workers.[9][10]

WFP is an executive member of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Group,[11] a consortium of UN entities that aims to fulfil the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG), with a priority on achieving SDG 2 for "zero hunger" by
2030.[12]

The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its
efforts to provide food assistance in areas of conflict, and to prevent the use
of food as a weapon of war and conflict.[13]


CONTENTS

 * 1 History
 * 2 Background
 * 3 Funding
 * 4 Organization
   * 4.1 Governance, leadership and staff
     * 4.1.1 List of executive directors
 * 5 Activities
   * 5.1 Emergencies
   * 5.2 Climate change
   * 5.3 Nutrition
   * 5.4 School meals
   * 5.5 Smallholder farmers
   * 5.6 Asset creation
   * 5.7 Cash assistance
   * 5.8 Capacity building
   * 5.9 Digital innovation
   * 5.10 Partnerships
 * 6 Reviews
   * 6.1 Recognition and awards
   * 6.2 Challenges
 * 7 See also
 * 8 Notes
 * 9 References
 * 10 External links


HISTORY[EDIT]

WFP was established in 1961[14] 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
launched its first programmes in 1963 by the FAO and the United Nations General
Assembly on a three-year experimental basis, supporting the Nubian population at
Wadi Halfa in Sudan. In 1965, the programme was extended to a continuing
basis.[15]


BACKGROUND[EDIT]

WFP works across a broad spectrum of Sustainable Development Goals,[12] owing to
the fact that food shortages, hunger, malnutrition and foodborne illness cause
poor health, which subsequently impacts other areas of sustainable development,
such as education, employment and poverty (Sustainable Development Goals Four,
Eight and One respectively).[12][16]


FUNDING[EDIT]

WFP operations are funded by voluntary donations principally from governments of
the world, and also from corporations and private donors.[17] In 2022, funding
reached a record USD 14.1 billion – up by almost 50 percent on the previous year
– against an operational funding need of USD 21.4 billion. The United States was
the largest donor.[18]


ORGANIZATION[EDIT]


GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND STAFF[EDIT]

WFP is governed by an executive board which consists of representatives from 36
member states, and provides intergovernmental support, direction and supervision
of WFP's activities. The European Union is a permanent observer in WFP and, as a
major donor, participates in the work of its executive board.[19] WFP is headed
by an executive director, who is appointed jointly by the UN Secretary-General
and the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the
United Nations. The executive director is appointed for fixed five-year terms
and is responsible for the administration of the organization as well as the
implementation of its programmes, projects and other activities.[20] Cindy
McCain, previously Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States
Mission to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome, was
appointed to the role in March 2023.[21]

In March 2023, WFP had over 22,300 staff.

The headquarters in Rome

LIST OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS[EDIT]

Since 1992, all executive directors have been American. The following is a
chronological list of those who have served as executive director of the World
Food Programme:[22]

 1.  Addeke Hendrik Boerma ( Netherlands) (May 1962 – December 1967)
 2.  Sushil K. Dev ( India) (January 1968 – August 1968) (acting)
 3.  Francisco Aquino ( El Salvador) (July 1968 – May 1976)
 4.  Thomas C. M. Robinson ( United States) (May 1976 – June 1977 acting; July
     1977 – September 1977)
 5.  Garson N. Vogel ( Canada) (October 1977 – April 1981)
 6.  Bernardo de Azevedo Brito ( Brazil) (May 1981 – February 1982) (acting)
 7.  Juan Felipe Yriart ( Uruguay) (February 1982 – April 1982) (acting)
 8.  James Ingram ( Australia) (April 1982 – April 1992)
 9.  Catherine Bertini ( United States) (April 1992 – April 2002)
 10. James T. Morris ( United States) (April 2002 – April 2007)
 11. Josette Sheeran ( United States) (April 2007 – April 2012)
 12. Ertharin Cousin ( United States) (April 2012 – April 2017)
 13. David Beasley ( United States) (April 2017 – April 2023)
 14. Cindy McCain ( United States) (April 2023 – present)


ACTIVITIES[EDIT]


EMERGENCIES[EDIT]

About two-thirds of WFP life-saving food assistance goes to people facing severe
food crises, most of them caused by conflict.[23] In September 2022, WFP warned
of record numbers of people who were either starving already or facing
starvation. The latest Hunger Hotspots report, co-published by WFP and FAO,
reported that 970,000 people faced catastrophic levels of hunger in five
countries, namely: Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. That
is a tenfold increase in a decade. Nigeria, with rising violence and restricted
humanitarian access, is also highlighted as a country of greatest concern.[24]
WFP said it had "scaled up direct food and nutrition assistance to prevent
famine and aims to reach a record 153 million people in 2022.[25]

WFP is also a first responder to sudden-onset emergencies. When floods struck
Sudan in July 2020, it provided emergency food assistance to nearly 160,000
people.[26] WFP provided food as well as vouchers for people to buy vital
supplies, while also planning recovery, reconstruction and resilience-building
activities, after Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique and floods washed an estimated
400,000 hectares of crops on early 2019.[27]

WFP's emergency support is also pre-emptive, in offsetting the potential impact
of disasters. In the Sahel region of Africa, amidst economic challenges, climate
change and armed militancy, WFP's activities included working with communities
and partners to harvest water for irrigation and restore degraded land, and
supporting livelihoods through skills training.[28] It uses early-warning
systems to help communities prepare for disasters. In Bangladesh, weather
forecasting led to distributions of cash to vulnerable farmers to pay for
measures such as reinforcing their homes or stockpiling food ahead of heavy
flooding.[29]

The World Food Program hands off high-energy biscuits to civilians at a Liberian
port during the second Civil War.

WFP is the lead agency of the Logistics Cluster, a coordination mechanism
established by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC).[30] It also co-leads
the Food Security Cluster.[31] The WFP-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air
Service (UNHAS) serves over 300 destinations globally. WFP also manages the
United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD), a global network of hubs
that procures, stores and transports emergency supplies for the organization and
the wider humanitarian community. WFP logistical support, including its air
service and hubs, has enabled staff and supplies from WFP and partner
organizations to reach areas where commercial flights have not been available,
during the COVID-19 pandemic.[32]


CLIMATE CHANGE[EDIT]

WFP took pre-emptive action to reduce the impact of floods in Bangladesh. Photo:
WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud

WFP provided cash to vulnerable groups ahead of torrential rains in Bangladesh
in July 2019.[33] WFP's response to Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas in September
2019 was assisted by a regional office in Barbados, which had been set up the
previous year to enable better disaster preparedness and response. In advance of
Hurricane Dorian, WFP deployed technical experts in food security, logistics and
emergency telecommunication, to support a rapid needs assessment. Assessment
teams also conducted an initial aerial reconnaissance mission, with the aim of
putting teams on the ground as soon as possible.[34]


NUTRITION[EDIT]

A child holds a WFP supplementary, specialized food to treat malnutrition among
children, at a WFP-supported nutrition clinic in Yemen. Photo:
WFP/Issa-Al-Raghi.

WFP works with governments, other UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector,
supporting nutrition interventions, policies and programmes that include school
meals and food fortification.[35][36]


SCHOOL MEALS[EDIT]

A child eats a WFP school meal in Lao. Photo: WFP/Vilakhone Sipaseuth

School meals encourage parents in vulnerable families to send their children to
school, rather than work. They have proved highly beneficial in areas including
education and gender equality, health and nutrition, social protection, local
economies and agriculture.[37] WFP works with partners to ensure school feeding
is part of integrated school health and nutrition programmes, which include
services such as malaria control, menstrual hygiene and guidance on sanitation
and hygiene.[38]


SMALLHOLDER FARMERS[EDIT]

WFP is a member of a global consortium that forms the Farm to Market Alliance,
which helps smallholder farmers receive information, investment and support, so
they can produce and sell marketable surplus and increase their income.[39][40]
WFP connects smallholder farmers to markets in more than 40 countries.

In 2008, WFP coordinated the five-year Purchase for Progress (P4P) pilot
project. P4P assists smallholding farmers by offering them opportunities to
access agricultural markets and to become competitive players in the
marketplace. The project spanned across 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America and trained 800,000 farmers in improved agricultural production,
post-harvest handling, quality assurance, group marketing, agricultural finance,
and contracting with WFP. The project resulted in 366,000 metric tons of food
produced and generated more than US$148 million in income for its smallholder
farmers.[41]


ASSET CREATION[EDIT]

WFP's Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programme provides cash or food-based
transfers to address recipients' immediate food needs, while they build or boost
assets, such as repairing irrigation systems, bridges, land and water management
activities.[42]

FFA reflects WFP's drive towards food assistance and development rather than
food aid and dependency. It does this by placing a focus on the assets and their
impact on people and communities rather than on the work to realize them,
representing a shift away from the previous approaches such as Food or Cash for
Work programmes and large public works programmes.[43]


CASH ASSISTANCE[EDIT]

A beneficiary shows the humanitarian assistance card she used to receive money
at a WFP cash transfer point in Niger. Photo: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf

WFP uses cash transfers such as physical banknotes, a debit card or vouchers,
aiming to give more choice to aid recipients and encourage the funds to be
invested back into local economies. During the first half of 2022, WFP delivered
US$1.6 billion in cash to 37 million people in 70 countries to alleviate
hunger.[44] A 2022 study by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
concluded that the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) cash programme
"significantly reduced the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty"
among the people receiving cash transfers.[45]


CAPACITY BUILDING[EDIT]

In the most climate disaster-prone provinces of the Philippines, WFP is
providing emergency response training and equipment to local government units,
and helping set up automated weather stations.[46]


DIGITAL INNOVATION[EDIT]

WFP's digital transformation centres on deploying the latest technologies and
data to help achieve zero hunger. The WFP Innovation Accelerator has sourced and
supported more than 60 projects spanning 45 countries.[47] In 2017, WFP launched
the Building Blocks programme. It aims to distribute money-for-food assistance
to Syrian refugees in Jordan. The project uses blockchain technology to digitize
identities and allow refugees to receive food with eye scanning.[48] WFP's
low-tech hydroponics kits allow refugees to grow barley that feed livestock in
the Sahara desert.[49] The SMP PLUS software is an AI-powered menu creation tool
for school meals programmes worldwide [50]


PARTNERSHIPS[EDIT]

WFP works with governments, private sector, UN agencies, international finance
groups, academia, and more than 1,000 non-governmental organisations.[51] The
WFP, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Fund for
Agricultural Development reaffirmed their joint efforts to end global hunger,
particularly amid the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, during a joint meeting
of their governing bodies in October 2020.[52] In the United States, Washington,
D.C.-based 501(c)(3) organization World Food Program USA supports the WFP. The
American organisation frequently donates to the WFP, though the two are separate
entities for taxation purposes.[53]


REVIEWS[EDIT]


RECOGNITION AND AWARDS[EDIT]

WFP won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its "efforts for combating hunger", its
"contribution to creating peace in conflicted-affected areas," and for acting as
a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war and
conflict.[54][55] Receiving the award, executive David Beasley called for
billionaires to "step up" and help source the US$5 billion WFP needs to save 30
million people from famine.[56]


CHALLENGES[EDIT]

In 2018, the Center for Global Development ranked WFP last in a study of 40 aid
programmes, based on indicators grouped into four themes: maximising efficiency,
fostering institutions, reducing burdens, and transparency and learning. These
indicators relate to aid effectiveness principles developed at the Paris
Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), and
the Busan Partnership Agreement (2011).[57]

There is wide general debate on the net effectiveness of aid, including
unintended consequences such as increasing the duration of conflicts, and
increasing corruption. WFP faces difficult decisions on working with some
regimes.[58]

Some surveys have shown internal culture problems at WFP, including sexual
harassment.[59][60]


SEE ALSO[EDIT]

 * Food portal

 * Asia Emergency Response Facility, a WFP special operation to establish an
   emergency response facility in Asia
 * Fight Hunger, a WFP initiative to end child hunger by 2015
 * Food Force, an educational game published by WFP
 * Network for Capacity Development in Nutrition
 * World Food Council, a defunct UN agency absorbed by FAO and WFP


NOTES[EDIT]

 1. ^ French: Programme alimentaire mondial; Italian: Programma alimentare
    mondiale; Spanish: Programa Mundial de Alimentos; Arabic: برنامج الأغذية
    العالمي, romanized: barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; Russian: Всемирная
    продовольственная программа, romanized: Vsemirnaya prodovol'stvennaya
    programma; Chinese: 世界粮食计划署; pinyin: Shìjiè Liángshí Jìhuà Shǔ


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EXTERNAL LINKS[EDIT]

 * Media related to United Nations World Food Program at Wikimedia Commons
 * Quotations related to World Food Programme at Wikiquote
 * Official website
 * World Food Programme on Nobelprize.org


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Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize
1901–1925
 * 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy
 * 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat
 * 1903: Randal Cremer
 * 1904: Institut de Droit International
 * 1905: Bertha von Suttner
 * 1906: Theodore Roosevelt
 * 1907: Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault
 * 1908: Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer
 * 1909: A. M. F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant
 * 1910: International Peace Bureau
 * 1911: Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried
 * 1912: Elihu Root
 * 1913: Henri La Fontaine
 * 1914
 * 1915
 * 1916
 * 1917: International Committee of the Red Cross
 * 1918
 * 1919: Woodrow Wilson
 * 1920: Léon Bourgeois
 * 1921: Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange
 * 1922: Fridtjof Nansen
 * 1923
 * 1924
 * 1925: Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes

1926–1950
 * 1926: Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann
 * 1927: Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde
 * 1928
 * 1929: Frank B. Kellogg
 * 1930: Nathan Söderblom
 * 1931: Jane Addams / Nicholas Butler
 * 1932
 * 1933: Norman Angell
 * 1934: Arthur Henderson
 * 1935: Carl von Ossietzky
 * 1936: Carlos Saavedra Lamas
 * 1937: Robert Cecil
 * 1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
 * 1939
 * 1940
 * 1941
 * 1942
 * 1943
 * 1944: International Committee of the Red Cross
 * 1945: Cordell Hull
 * 1946: Emily Balch / John Mott
 * 1947: Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee
 * 1948
 * 1949: John Boyd Orr
 * 1950: Ralph Bunche

1951–1975
 * 1951: Léon Jouhaux
 * 1952: Albert Schweitzer
 * 1953: George C. Marshall
 * 1954: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
 * 1955
 * 1956
 * 1957: Lester B. Pearson
 * 1958: Georges Pire
 * 1959: Philip Noel-Baker
 * 1960: Albert Luthuli
 * 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 1962: Linus Pauling
 * 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross
   Societies
 * 1964: Martin Luther King Jr.
 * 1965: UNICEF
 * 1966
 * 1967
 * 1968: René Cassin
 * 1969: International Labour Organization
 * 1970: Norman Borlaug
 * 1971: Willy Brandt
 * 1972
 * 1973: Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) / Henry Kissinger
 * 1974: Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō
 * 1975: Andrei Sakharov

1976–2000
 * 1976: Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan
 * 1977: Amnesty International
 * 1978: Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin
 * 1979: Mother Teresa
 * 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
 * 1981: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
 * 1982: Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles
 * 1983: Lech Wałęsa
 * 1984: Desmond Tutu
 * 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
 * 1986: Elie Wiesel
 * 1987: Óscar Arias
 * 1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces
 * 1989: Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
 * 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * 1992: Rigoberta Menchú
 * 1993: Nelson Mandela / F. W. de Klerk
 * 1994: Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat
 * 1995: Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat
 * 1996: Carlos Belo / José Ramos-Horta
 * 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams
 * 1998: John Hume / David Trimble
 * 1999: Médecins Sans Frontières
 * 2000: Kim Dae-jung

2001–present
 * 2001: United Nations / Kofi Annan
 * 2002: Jimmy Carter
 * 2003: Shirin Ebadi
 * 2004: Wangari Maathai
 * 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei
 * 2006: Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus
 * 2007: Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 * 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
 * 2009: Barack Obama
 * 2010: Liu Xiaobo
 * 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman
 * 2012: European Union
 * 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
 * 2014: Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai
 * 2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
 * 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
 * 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
 * 2018: Denis Mukwege / Nadia Murad
 * 2019: Abiy Ahmed
 * 2020: World Food Programme
 * 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov
 * 2022: Ales Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties
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Chemistry
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Literature (2020)
Louise Glück (United States)
Peace (2020)
World Food Programme
Physics
 * Roger Penrose (United Kingdom)
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Physiology or Medicine (2020)
 * Harvey J. Alter (United States)
 * Michael Houghton (United Kingdom)
 * Charles M. Rice (United States)

Economic Sciences (2020)
 * Paul Milgrom (United States)
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History


1850s, Creation of
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Post WWII
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 * 1951 Refugee Convention

21st-century
reform attempts
 * World Humanitarian Summit
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Humanitarian
organizations


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Red Cross Movement
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International agencies
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Consortiums
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Local agencies
 * BRAC
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 * Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation


Analysis and reporting
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Notable people
 * Degan Ali
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Donors and funding
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power, abuse
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   * Sphere Handbook
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 * Kunduz hospital airstrike
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Related fields
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Related articles
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International
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Charter
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Funds, programmes,
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Activities
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