FCI signs MoU with WFP to supply rice to support eradication of global hungerIndia's Food Corporation of India (FCI) has signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme (WFP) to supply 2 ...
18 Feb, 2026, 10.30 PM IST
India holds significant potential to help other countries boost their food security: WFP officialIndia can help other nations improve food security. The World Food Programme (WFP) wants to work more with India to fight food insecurity. ...
25 Aug, 2025, 10.34 PM IST
India's food transformation key to global hunger fight as Western funding drops: WFP Deputy ChiefAs global hunger soars due to conflict and funding cuts, the WFP highlights India's transformation into a key aid supplier. India's innovat...
25 Aug, 2025, 12.32 PM IST
UN World Food Program launches investigation into its Sudan operations as famine spreadsThe U.N. World Food Program is investigating two top officials in Sudan for alleged fraud and withholding donor information about their cap...
28 Aug, 2024, 01.47 PM IST
UN bars Indian rice exporters from participating in World Food Programme due to export banHowever, it has been shipping rice to friendly and neighbouring nations such as Indonesia, Senegal, Gambia, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldi...
17 Jan, 2024, 02.46 PM IST
Four or five days of food left in Gaza shops: WFPThe food situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly, with only a few days' worth of stocks left in shops, according to the UN's World Food ...
18 Oct, 2023, 12.03 AM IST
UN food agency warns of 'doom loop' for world's hungriest as governments cut aid and needs increaseThe World Food Program (WFP) has issued a warning that cuts in humanitarian funding are leading to a drastic reduction in food rations for ...
12 Sep, 2023, 02.48 PM IST
Forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis: UNThe United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) has cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries due to a si...
29 Jul, 2023, 08.36 AM IST
Over 6 million people in crisis-hit Sri Lanka 'food insecure': World Food ProgrammeThe economic crisis has led to an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas, fuel and toilet paper, with Sri Lanka...
16 Jul, 2022, 12.06 PM IST
Uber donates app to World Food Programme to use in UkraineThe WFP is scaling up operations in Ukraine and expects to be able to provide food and cash to 3 million people per month by June, the agen...
08 Jun, 2022, 05.02 PM IST
WTO must allow grain export from public stock: IndiaAt present, the WTO members cannot export foodgrains from public stockholdings as they are subsidised grains. India's approach is crucial a...
24 May, 2022, 01.27 PM IST
UN food agency seeks safe access in Ukraine war zonesThe Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), which has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the conflict, says it has delivered food ...
15 Apr, 2022, 09.22 PM IST
Discussion underway with India over humanitarian food assistance for Afghanistan: UN's WFPResponding to a question if the WFP made a formal request for aid from India, Cecilia Garzon said there is a "positive discussion" underway...
13 Nov, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
Offering non-commercial, humanitarian food assistance to its neighbours: India at WTOThis was part of a statement delivered by India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO (World Trade Organisation) at the Gene...
19 Dec, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
WFP chief David Beasley seeks million from donors, billionaires for foodWorld Food Program chief David Beasley said the WFP and its partners were going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year _ ...
10 Oct, 2020, 10.08 AM IST
- Food department signs pact with WFP for PDS
Under the MoU, the department of food and public distribution will facilitate the WFP TPDS computerization programme.
20 Apr, 2012, 08.14 PM IST
- UN agency airdrops food for cyclone-hit Bangladeshis
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is teaming up with Bangladesh Air Force to airdrop emergency food supplies to thousands of pe...
20 Nov, 2007, 07.00 AM IST