The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto,fiat panis,translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and the leading provider of school meals. Founded in 1961,WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries. As of 2021,it supported over 128 million people across more than 120 countries and territories.
In politics,humanitarian aid,and the social sciences,hunger is defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period. In the field of hunger relief,the term hunger is used in a sense that goes beyond the common desire for food that all humans experience,also known as an appetite. The most extreme form of hunger,when malnutrition is widespread,and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to sufficient,nutritious food,leads to a declaration of famine.
George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III was an American politician and anti-poverty activist. He served as a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat.
Gaddi Holguin Vasquez was the 8th United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture,in Rome,Italy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29,2006. Vasquez was sworn into office on September 7,2006,by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,and served in the position until 2009. Prior to that,he was the first person of Hispanic ancestry to head the Peace Corps.
Mark Andrew Green is an American politician and diplomat who is the president,director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before joining the Wilson Center on March 15,2021,he served as the executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership,and prior to that,as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999,was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007,representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district,ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wisconsin in 2006,and held the post of United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009. Green served as president of the International Republican Institute from 2014 to 2017 and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Jamie Lloyd Whitten was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented the state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He was at the time of his departure the longest-serving U.S. Representative ever. From 1979 to 1995,he was Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the longest-serving member of Congress ever from Mississippi. He was a New Deal liberal in economic matters,and took a leading role in Congress in forming national policy and spending regarding agriculture. Whitten was the last-remaining member of the United States Congress to have served during the FDR administration.
Michael Ray Turner is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Turner's district,numbered as the 3rd district from 2003 to 2013,is based in Dayton and consists of part of Clark County and all of Montgomery and Greene Counties.
Dave Hall was an American politician and businessman who served as the mayor of Dayton,Ohio,from 1966 to 1970.
Daniel Robert Glickman is an American politician,lawyer,lobbyist,and nonprofit leader. He served as the United States secretary of agriculture from 1995 until 2001 in the Clinton administration. He previously represented Kansas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years.
James Thomas Walsh is an American Republican politician from Syracuse,New York. Currently a government affairs counselor for K &L Gates in Washington,DC,Walsh retired from the United States House of Representatives in 2009 after serving for twenty years. Walsh represented a portion of Central New York,that is now known as the state's 24th Congressional District.
Eva McPherson Clayton is an American politician from North Carolina. On taking her seat in the United States House of Representatives following a special election in 1992,Clayton became the first African American to represent North Carolina in the House since George Henry White was elected to his second and last term in 1898. She was re-elected and served for five terms. In 2003,Clayton was appointed Assistant Director-General of the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),based in Rome.
Stephen Clement Austria is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Ohio's 7th congressional district from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. In December 2011,Austria announced his intention to not run for re-election for the 113th Congress in the 2012 elections. During his 14 years in elected office,Austria never lost an election.
World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned with hunger and food security,including the World Food Programme,the World Health Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. WFP received the Nobel Prize in Peace for 2020 for their efforts to combat hunger,contribute to peace in conflict areas,and for playing a leading role in stopping the use of hunger in the form of a weapon for war and conflict.
Charles William Whalen Jr was an American politician from Ohio. Whalen was a member of the Republican Party who served in the Ohio House of Representatives,Ohio State Senate,and the United States House of Representatives. In his six terms in the U.S. House,Whalen established himself in the liberal wing of the Republican Party and led opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Binay Ranjan Sen,CIE,ICS,was an Indian diplomat and Indian Civil Service officer. He served as Director General (1956–1967) of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He drew on his experience as relief commissioner (1942–1943) during the Bengal famine of 1943 to build the FAO from a data-gathering bureaucracy into a major force against world hunger. [[]]
Edouard Victor Saouma was a Lebanese civil servant who served as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for three consecutive terms from 1976 to 1993.
Nancy Stetson is the former United States Special Representative for Global Food Security,responsible for leading all aspects of U.S. diplomacy related to food security and nutrition,appointed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on June 23,2014. She is also the Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future - the US government's global hunger and food security initiative. In October 2016,Ambassador Stetson was the deputy head of delegation for the U.S. party to Habitat III - the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
Kip E. Tom served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture,and chief of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome,from 2019 to 2021.
