Josette Sheeran

Considering that it boasts 60 percent of the world's potentially available cropland and will represent 40 percent of the global workforce by 2040, it's hard to believe that Africa is not yet the world's breadbasket. A continent that 50 years ago was a net exporter of food now needs to...

I am so honoured to be recognized as a Game Changer this year among visionaries such as Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Esther Duflo, and Jamie Oliver, who are changing the world for the better in so many areas of human endeavour.

The Huffington Post itself has changed the game of...

We can end hunger in our generation. As the leader of the World Food Program, I seek to inspire a new generation of hunger advocates. But first, the view from the frontlines of hunger.

There are 925 million hungry people in the world today. Most of them are...

By the end of this year, the United Nations World Food Programme will have delivered food to more than 90 million people living in some of the most remote, least developed, dangerous and neglected parts of the world. Our work, our staff and the generosity of governments across the world...

The World Food Programme (WFP) is deeply saddened by the loss of life and widespread destruction in Haiti and we are mobilizing all available resources to provide urgently needed food assistance as part of a swift and coordinated recovery effort.

Our thoughts are with families who have lost loved ones...

Thanksgiving always evokes memories of the days when, as mothers of young children, we would bundle them up to deliver turkey baskets -- family to family -- to those in Washington, DC who couldn't afford a holiday dinner of their own.

That simple act connected our children to the original...

The perfect storm for the world's most vulnerable is back -- and with a vengeance. Now bad weather and soaring food prices have been joined by a financial crisis sucking the economic life out of poor communities -- and urgent hunger is the result.

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For the first time in history, there are more than a billion hungry people in the world. That's almost a sixth of the world's population.

A billion people go to sleep hungry every night. There are also more than a billion people today fortunate enough to have access...

For the first time in history, there are more than a billion hungry people in the world. That's almost a sixth of the world's population.

A billion people go to sleep hungry every night. There are also more than a billion people today fortunate enough to have access...

In the two years I've been head of the World Food Programme - the world's last defense against famine and starvation for 100 million people - I've learned a number of things.

I've learned that hunger is a killer. More than 25,000 men, women and children die each day...

I want to thank you Douglas for organizing this timely and strategic conference. I also want to commend you for what must be one of the best background...

Midway through the last century, the developed world decided to quit turning a blind eye to poverty and hunger. Led first by FDR, who dreamed of a world "free from want," agencies were set up and tasked with understanding and conquering hunger. Among those was the 1963 establishment of the...