name: World Food Programme
text: The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency mandated to combat global hunger.
  
  In November/December 1961, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN General Assembly adopted parallel resolutions establishing WFP. 
  
  The three-year experimental programme was not due to enter into operation until January 1963. In reality it was up and running several months early, as an earthquake hit Iran, a hurricane swept through Thailand and newly independent Algeria was overwhelmed by five million returning refugees. Food aid was needed urgently and WFP was tasked to supply it.
  
  Over the past four decades, WFP has invested about US$28 billion and more than 47 million metric tonnes of food to combat hunger, promote social and economic development, and provide relief assistance in emergencies throughout the world.
  
  In 2005, WFP fed 96.7 million people in 82 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people. 
  
  In 2005, WFP employed a total of 10,523 staff, of whom 91 percent work in the field delivering food and monitoring its use.
  
  Despite having the largest budget of any major UN agency or programme, WFP has the smallest headquarters staff and the lowest overheads, averaging only nine percent.
  
  http://www.wfp.org/