Luke Lindberg, USDA’s undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, is a leading contender to become executive ...

Cindy McCain’s tenure running the World Food Program will end prematurely. The executive director announced on February 26 that she planned to resign for health reasons following a stroke in October.

ROME (AP) — U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain announced on Thursday that she will step down as the head of the humanitarian organization in three months to focus on her health.

In this opinion piece, Kip Tom, a former ambassador to the UN food and agriculture agencies, says the World Food Program needs an executive director who has the knowledge, experience and relationships ...

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ food aid agency said Wednesday that severe funding cuts from its top donors are hurting its operations in six countries and warned that nearly 14 million people could ...

NAIROBI/CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) reported that 6.7 million people in Syria received assistance in January, noting a relative ...

The next WFP chief could help the UN emergency food agency save millions of lives – or walk away from a starving world.