Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  —and here I am, the biggest advocate in the world now for the World Food Programme, because liberals and conservatives lay aside their differences and come together when it comes to food security.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I can. In fact, we've now digitized some 50 million people. Biometrics are on about 18 million people. We're the world's largest operation in this sphere in the humanitarian world. Our ability to now use blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and satellite imagery is

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  David, yes. In fact what is quite remarkable is that a year ago, the United Nations Security Council was able for the first time to pass a resolution very clearly stating that food security is critical to the security of any nation. You wouldn't have had that years ago. In fact,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. It's great to be back. I wish I had some good news to give you. Just when we thought it was as bad as it could get out there with war, conflict and destabilization all over the world—particularly in the Middle East and the Sahel region, like Su

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. We could actually spend hours on that. It's very important, because no longer are we just bringing in commodities in humanitarian short-term emergencies. We're now doing cash-based transfers. We're the world's largest in the cash-based transfer system. We now provide a litt

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are several things here. First and foremost, Canada has been helping us with, I think, $29 million regarding Yemen just in the past two years. Canada has really helped us in the area of school children, with nutrition, with lactating and pregnant women and especially with l

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I just came out of the field, by the way, in Yemen. Yemen is a disaster. We could spend hours on the humanitarian disaster there and what needs to be done. As for the Rohingya, I was just in Cox's Bazar about five weeks ago. We went from a small number of people to a million pe

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. I will put Venezuela in somewhere.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I was just on the ground in Yemen for several days in Aden, Sana'a and Hudaydah. If you can imagine the dangers of going to Hudaydah, everybody, UN security, said, “You can't go to Hudaydah.” I said that I have to go to Hudaydah. I said that I have to stand in that port and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's mostly states. In fact, one of the areas where the World Food Programme has done very little is in private sector fundraising. I'm bringing that now to the table. We're beginning to analyze and evaluate. On an amortized, annualized basis, I don't think we would be able to s

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I heard a lot of stories when I got there, but so far it's been really good. I'm going to just give you a few. The United States was giving us about $1.8 billion, and of course, everybody was concerned that the Trump administration was going to zero out, but now we're at almo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. It's great to be here. I was trying, really, to determine how I should go forward when we have so many tragedies around the world. We're facing so many wars, conflicts and disasters, where do you start? Let's take it from a global perspective, maybe. I to