After 30 years of developing future agriculture leaders, The World Food Prize is expanding its Youth Institute model to Africa.

SIMON: Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Programme, speaking to us from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Director McCain, thanks so much for being with us. MCCAIN: Thank you.

The World Food Program says it’s planning to nearly quadruple the number of people that the U.N. agency helps in four central American countries affected by drought, seen as one of the drivers ...

BATRAWY: The U.N. World Food Programme has been warning for weeks supplies in Gaza are running out. A month ago, its 25 bakeries in Gaza shut down because there was no more flour or cooking gas ...

World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places and provided ...

A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid donated by the World Food Program in Taez, Yemen, on Saturday. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images) Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Committee named this year’s ...

David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Program: It's a very serious problem. And it's a very serious problem all over the world, Nick. And we're facing an unprecedented food crisis globally.

Beasley: This Nobel Peace Prize has sensitized the world to the fact that hunger is a grave issue and that the World Food Programme is in fact the No. 1 leader in ending hunger around the world.

Reiss-Andersen said that, at a time when many nations are turning inward, awarding the prize to the World Food Program aimed to highlight the importance of collaboration in the face of crises such ...

The World Food Programme, which won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, delivered food to 97 million people last year. The United Nations agency, created as an experiment in 1961 after a request ...

The World Food Programme is the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger and promoting food security. Founded in 1961, the UN branch aided 97 million people around the world in ...