UN’s WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP)

About:

• India’s wheat production stood at 109.59 million tonnes in the 2020-21 crop year (July-June).
  
  
• The World Food Programme launched the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises recently in which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the war in Ukraine is “supercharging” a three-dimensional crisis – food, energy and finance — with devastating impacts on the world’s most vulnerable people, countries and economies.
  
  

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• What is it? The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.
  
  
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• History: The WFP was formally established in 1963 by the FAO and the United Nations General Assembly.