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 United Nations' World Food Programme, the globe's largest humanitarian agency, received the Nobel Peace Prize at the end of last year for its efforts to combat hunger and to prevent the use of ...

In 1961 the Eisenhower administration played a key role in the establishment of the World Food Programme (WFP) - an experimental effort to provide food through the United Nations to people around ...

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 ...

The World Food Programme is the major international effort to fight hunger. Last year, the organization reports it served more than 100 million people. Five years ago, it won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to combat hunger around the world, beating favorites Greta Thunberg and the World Health Organization.

This comes as the World Food Program is experiencing funding shortages amid the prospect that many people will soon go hungry without action from the global community. David Beasley, executive ...

The head of food safety at the World Food Programme (WFP) has shared the challenges of ensuring food is safe when working in remote areas and sourcing ...

Hardly any food has entered northern Gaza for nearly four months. The convoy from the World Food Program had been heading to ...

The Weeknd was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. “The U.N. World Food Programme is doing urgent and important work to ...