The World Food Programme is considered the United Nations' front-line agency in the fight against hunger.
But once the war is over, the World Food Programme, a Rome-based UN agency, will take over.
Another woman clambers from a bus lugging a sack of flour donated by the World Food Programme.
The World Food Programme "can go anywhere, which is so spectacular, " he said.
The World Food Programme says that up to 2.4 million people are severely affected by war in the south.
And it kicked out a number of aid agencies, including the World Food Programme, that monitor the food situation.
Joining us now to talk about the challenges that the World Food Programme faces in the region is Carlos Veloso.
Marteen Roest, a spokesman for the World Food Programme, said that agency already has sent a major convoy into Iraq.
The World Food Programme has warned that up to 1.5 million Afghans could flood out of the country in search of food.
Late last year, Kors partnered with the World Food Programme to raise awareness and funds, and now he's bringing Berry on board.
Once a big exporter of maize, coffee and cotton, Angola now depends on the World Food Programme to keep its people alive.
You can change someone's life immediately and with the World Food Programme.
One Haitian man approached U.N. workers at the World Food Programme warehouse, which was already helping feed 1 million people before the quake.
The World Food Programme gave warning that millions of people in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe were about to be seriously short of food.
The World Food Programme is still operating in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif, the relief agency's Web site said in a statement released Friday.
The violence has severely affected this year's harvest, and the World Food Programme estimates that 1 million Syrians need urgent and immediate food aid.
"While the economic implications of these losses are quite grave, the humanitarian implications are far more pressing, " said Muhannad Hadi, the World Food Programme representative in Syria.
The World Food Programme says North Korea continues "to face regular, significant food shortages, " with one in every three children chronically malnourished or too short for their age.
Italian pasta and Indian rice are sold alongside milk powder from Dubai and reminders of recent aid dependency in the form of cooking oil from the World Food Programme.
Catherine Bertini, head of the World Food Programme, visited areas of the Horn of Africa hardest hit by the drought that threatens up to 16m people in the region.
The World Food Programme's latest figures show that well over 10m people in southern Africa now need food aid after poor rains, a terrible harvest and mismanagement by some governments.
The World Food Programme warns that the policy could risk the official UN food aid programme - Operation Lifeline Sudan, which has been distributing food around Sudan for the last ten years.
Meanwhile in Iraq, the delegates are being briefed by UN humanitarian and other relief organisations such as the World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNHCR, before splitting-up on the last day.
That is bad news for countries whose food output was already rising less fast than their populations: according to the World Food Programme, Honduras grew 27% less food per person in 1996 than in 1980.
After tapping into an unfulfilled passion for international public affairs, her resolved confidence and managerial talent put her at the head of the World Food Programme, and then in 2008, into a position as a senior manager at the UN.
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Mother of three Kelly Arthur, says her tweens at 10, 14, and 15 years of age are also fans of the Half the Sky game, but have also started learning about other cultures through a game called Free Rice, which donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme each time a user gets a quiz question right.
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Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
One of the freighters has been chartered by the UN World Food Programme to bring in food aid, which is the biggest earner for local transport contractors.
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