Morris led the organization from 2002-2007. He successfully guided WFP in carrying out what was then the largest humanitarian operation in history, providing food assistance to some 26 million Iraqis in 2003-2004. Under his leadership WFP was also one of the key responders to the Indian ocean tsunami.
Asma Khan has long been a dedicated supporter of WFP and its causes. Asma advocated for WFP’s Women are Hungrier campaign, to draw attention to the central role women’s empowerment plays in ending hunger and transforming communities.
WFP has had 14 Executive Directors (EDs) since its launch in 1962. Listed below are the 13 EDs who preceded Cindy McCain.
Mr David Beasley
April 2017 - April 2023
Over the years, Pakistan has become a food surplus country and a major producer of wheat which it distributes to needy populations through various mechanisms, including the World Food Programme (WFP).
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Humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse. Once again, nearly half of the population of Rafah, 800,000 people, are on the move, looking for food and shelter in the middle areas of the Strip and in Khan Younis.
On the evening of 6 January 2000, my uncle Christopher Luke took me from my mother. I was only 11 years old. My mother walked with us a little of the way until we came to the River Luku where she said goodbye. She hugged me and through her tears told me, “My son, go. You will always remain in my heart. We will meet again in the nearest future.”
We left her standing just near the bridge.
Following years of supporting the organization and its causes, the Emmy- and four-time James Beard Award- winning chef, writer, teacher and social justice advocate will be using his voice and platform to fight for global hunger and educate the public on food waste.
This contribution comes as part of the “Food for Gaza” multistakeholder initiative led by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with key humanitarian actors – FAO, WFP and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - and the Italian Civil Protection, which aims to strengthen collaboration and facilitate access to food assistance in order to alleviate the suffe
Nadifa Ibrahim proudly shows off the latest addition to her small mud home: a squat gas cylinder and burner, upon which she is brewing a pot of strong local tea.
“It’s efficient, it’s useful – and we avoid getting beaten when we go looking for firewood,” says Nadifa, from Sudan’s Darfur region who now lives in a refugee camp in eastern Chad.
“The difference is huge,” she adds
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) snapshot – released today – projects that over the coming months 1.95 million people in Gaza (91 percent of the population) will face acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or worse).
