134150 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-food-programme-three-year-experiment-became-indispensableThe need for the World Food Programme, the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize , to exist is starker than ever. From conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to flooding in South Sudan, and the civil war in Yemen, man-made and natural disasters are leaving tens of millions of people unsure....Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:24:00 +0200reliefWeb-0bf7b593343d2d3e5e06854defb3489a20201009192400https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1075052‘As long as multilateral food aid is found feasible and desirable’ The World Food Programme was set up in 1961, at the behest of US President Dwight Eisenhower, initially as a three-year experiment, to assess the effectiveness of emergency food aid delivery through the UN system.Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:56:00 +0200un-org-5b82b6cce23b89a07f9583b4a2bc963c20201009175600https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1075052‘As long as multilateral food aid is found feasible and desirable’ The World Food Programme was set up in 1961, at the behest of US President Dwight Eisenhower, initially as a three-year experiment, to assess the effectiveness of emergency food aid delivery through the UN system.Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:27:00 +0200un-news-5b82b6cce23b89a07f9583b4a2bc963c20201009172700https://theunionjournal.com/world-food-programme-was-created-as-an-experiment-it-sent-food-to-97-million-last-year/The United Nations company, created as an experiment in 1961 after a demand by United States President Dwight Eisenhower, is today among the world’s biggest humanitarian companies. Its initially significant objective can be found in 1962, when an earthquake struck northern Iran and eliminated 12,000 individuals.Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:49:00 +0200theunionjournal-651e6a0833ea94992ad89be5d426447220201009144900