United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia spokesman, Peter Smerdon agreed that further naval assistance would be a huge help in the area.

CNN: How to solve the pirate problem

It killed at least 140, 000 people and left at least 2 million people without homes, according to the United Nations World Food Programme.

CNN: A year after cyclone, a girl remembers

By contrast, both starvation and obesity are closely linked with poverty, and as such they are both symptoms of malnutrition, Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, tells BBC News.

BBC: Davos 2013: Obesity not a problem for the rich

In December 2002, TNT's parent company TPG set about testing that idea when it launched a partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian aid agency.

CNN: Looking beyond the bottom line

The World Food Programme is considered the United Nations' front-line agency in the fight against hunger.

CNN: SHARE THIS