Items Tagged with 'David Beasley'

Cindy McCain has been named the next executive director of the United Nations World Food Program and USDA has been appointed L’Tonya Davis as the first permanent chief diversity and inclusion officer.

Cindy McCain has been tapped as the next executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, taking the reins of the world’s largest humanitarian organization as millions of people are pushed into hunger from climate-related disaster and the war in Ukraine. 

After five years as executive director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley says he will step down in April when his term expires.

UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley talks to Agri-Pulse about how he won over skeptical lawmakers and worked with the Trump and Biden administrations to build the world's largest food aid effort and address a series of crises.

The executive director of the World Food Program says the global food crisis stands to get even worse in 2023 because of possible reductions in farm production due to shortages of affordable fertilizer.

When it comes to ending hunger, the world is going in the wrong direction, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations that called for “repurposing” agricultural subsidies toward the development of nutritious foods.

An agreement to ban food export restrictions could be in reach for the World Trade Organization after years of failing to produce a major achievement.

Ukrainian farmers will begin harvesting millions of acres of winter wheat in July, but if Ukraine is unable to export it, the country’s economy will likely collapse and the hundreds of millions of people that depend on receiving that grain will suffer even worse than they are now, United Nations World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said Wednesday.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz discusses how world hunger is predicted to take more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic and how a spotlight will be on the upcoming 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.