World Soil Day 2017, sponsored by the FAO and Global Soil Partnership, is today Tuesday, December 5th, and this year’s theme is “Caring for the Planet Starts with the Ground.” At the World Food Bank, we know how important healthy soil is to the livelihood and future of our planet and its inhabitants. In East […]
Meet the Team: Richard Lackey, CEO & Chairman of The World Food Bank Richard Lackey is the Chairman & CEO of the World Food Bank, which he founded in 2015 as a sustainable solution to hunger and food security issues across the globe. Richard is a career entrepreneur with 30 years of leadership experience in […]
Last month, we let you know about an exciting partnership we have established with the innovative ag tech company aWhere. This month, we want to dive a little deeper into this partnership and explain how their ag intelligence systems will allow us to equip our farmers on the ground in East Africa with real-time data […]
The World Food Bank is headed to East Africa this coming January, and we’re inviting individuals who are interested in social impact investing – particularly investors and advisors – to join us! On this two-week trip, we will tour WFB operations in 3-4 countries, including Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya, and we will be taking a […]
Happy Holidays! We hope you are enjoying this wonderful time of the year, thus far. As we near the end of 2017, we want to take a moment to thank all of our partners, investors and supporters for your interest in and involvement with the World Food Bank. We have achieved a great deal this […]
Video calls. Smart refrigerators. Flying taxies. Not so long ago, these were things you’d only find in futuristic space cartoons. Today they’re a real part of our world. Change and amazing technological advancements are occurring rapidly across our planet, yet some of our most basic human challenges persist, most notably in the areas of […]
Recently, Richard Lackey, CEO and Chairman of the World Food Bank, traveled to Rwanda to meet Dr. Gerardine Mukeshimana, the Rwandan Minister of Agriculture, to discuss future endeavors with the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to receiving a warm and hearty welcome from Dr. Mukeshimana, the outcome of the meeting was successful in identifying […]
The World Food Bank’s Chairman and CEO Richard Lackey was honored to recently present to several distinguished guests at the United Nation’s Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA) High Level Event. In his presentation, Chairman Lackey discussed the World Food Bank’s initiatives to improve access to food commodities across the globe, bolster economic conditions for […]
The World Food Bank (WFB) is pleased to announce that Mr. Vincent Ssempijja, the Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries in Uganda, recently signed a resolution to work with WFB and the National Crop Resources Research Institute, a division of MINAGRI (the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources) to promote and educate farmers […]
