MINNEAPOLIS, Nov.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo, Inc.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Program, will speak on overcoming the challenges that threaten the state of food security in the world at a National Press Club luncheon on Sept. 29.

The global economic slowdown combined with high food prices is causing one in six of the world’s population, more than one billion people, to go hungry, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday.

ROME, Dec.