{"id":193862,"date":"2013-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193862"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:41:59","slug":"auto-insert-193862","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193862\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP Executive Director to meet with PA officials – WFP press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WFP Executive Director Attends Israeli Conference, Visits Innovative Food Assistance Programme In Palestine <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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JERUSALEM – The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, will be in Israel and the State of Palestine this week to attend a conference and visit WFP operations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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She arrives in Jerusalem today and  will take part tomorrow (Wednesday 19 June) in a panel discussion at the Israeli Presidential Conference entitled “Is There Hope for a Green Tomorrow?” She will give a lecture at Tel Aviv University and visit the Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research as well as meeting government officials.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cousin will meet officials of the Palestinian Authority on Thursday 20 June. She will attend a food distribution on Friday 21 June at a Bedouin village between Jerusalem and Jericho and see WFP’s innovative electronic food voucher programme. WFP reaches approximately 650,000 food-insecure, non-refugee households, in the West Bank and Gaza. <\/p><\/div>\n

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A third of all households in Palestine, or 1.6 million people, struggle to feed their families. Food insecurity is a major challenge and 2012 saw a steep rise in the number of “food-insecure” people. <\/p><\/div>\n

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WFP’s programmes support local production and economic activity. In the past three years US$100 million was injected into the Palestinian economy through the use of electronic vouchers and local purchase of Palestinian food products.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  Each year WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p><\/div>\n

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For more information, or for journalists who wish to request an interview or to accompany the Executive Director on a field visit, please contact (email address: <\/span>firstname.lastname@wfp.org<\/u><\/a>):<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Jane Howard, WFP\/Jerusalem, Mob. +972 (0)546 773168 and +39 346 7600 521
\nAnna Trolle-Lindgren, WFP\/Jerusalem, Tel. +972 (0)2540 1340\/1\/2, ext. 2210, Mob, (0)546 773128<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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