Tag: World Food Programme

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:31 UTC

  World food commodity prices dropped significantly in July, FAO report

  

  The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined significantly in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reported.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  UN food chief calls on billionaires to save 30 million people at risk of dying

  

  United Nations food chief David Beasley called on the world's billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save about 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don't receive help from the World Food Programme.

• Thursday, June 6th 2013 - 06:33 UTC

  Throwing away food is like stealing from the poor, Francis tells followers

  

  Francis has denounced what he called a “culture of waste” in an increasingly consumerist world and said throwing away good food was like stealing from poor people.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 22:02 UTC

  UN forecasts period of “food volatility and supply disruptions”

  

  The world is going into a period of food volatility and supply disruptions due in part to weather related problems and a backdrop of rising prices, the UN World Food Program's executive director said.

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 03:53 UTC

  Oxfam: land grabbing and food-price volatility, main challenges to tackle hunger

  

  UN countries began to find common ground on some important and deep-seated problems contributing to global hunger, at a meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2010 - 00:38 UTC

  FAO Honors Lula da Silva for Leadership in Fight Against Hunger

  

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) honoured Brazilian President Lula da Silva for his leadership in the fight against hunger and inadequate nutrition in his country and across the world.