United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Question 1

What is it?

Answer 1

• leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
• founded in 1961 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with its headquarters in Rome, Italy.
• member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), a coalition of UN agencies and organizations aimed at fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Question 2

What are it’s objectives?

Answer 2

• emergency assistance as well as rehabilitation and development aid.

-works closely with
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which helps countries draw up policy and change legislation to support sustainable agriculture
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which finances projects in poor rural areas.

• end hunger
• Improving nutrition
• achieving food security.

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Question 3

What is Share the Meal initiative of WFP?

Answer 3

• Donations from the ShareTheMeal app support various WFP operations ranging from resilience building and school feeding programmes to providing food assistance in emergencies.
• The app was launched in 2015 and since then, it has helped provide aid to some of the largest food crises in the world including Yemen, Syria and Nigeria.

Question 4

When relationship between WFP and India started,what are the areas of co-operation?

Answer 4

• 1963
• Transforming the targeted public distribution system
• Fortification(food that has extra nutrients added) of government distributed food
• Mapping and monitoring of food insecurity

Question 5

WFP has been awarded with which award?

Answer 5

Nobel Prize for Peace 2020