With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regar… - Josette Sheeran

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With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

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About Josette Sheeran

Josette Sheeran (born 1954) is the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a position she assumed in April 2007. As leader of WFP, Ms. Sheeran manages the world's largest humanitarian agency, which provides food assistance to more than 105 million people in 75 countries including victims of war and natural disasters, orphans and families affected by HIV and AIDS, and children in poor communities.

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Alternative Names: Josette Sheeran Shiner Amb. Josette Sheeran
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If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa — amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs — it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world’s most vulnerable people.

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I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets. I am so honored to be here with some of the world's top innovators and thinkers. And I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.

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