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born 1954

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.

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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.

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

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."

If anything is to be learned from the recent uprisings across the world, it is that the needs of people cannot be ignored.

A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

The world is at a crossroads. Our generation may be the first in history with the knowledge, tools and resources to truly turn back the rising tide of hunger and misery.

I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josette Sheeran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.