In 2010 global food aid deliveries reached a record low of 5.7 million mt, a 9 percent decline from 2009.  It comes at a time when global challenges of hunger and food price volatility are imposing unprecedented pressure on household family incomes.  Estimates of global hunger suggest that 925 million people were undernourished during the reporting period – a 9.6 percent decline from 2009.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were the main recipients of global food aid in 2010, although deliveries were 12 percent down on the previous year. A decline was also reported in food aid deliveries in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East and North Africa. The regional shares of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean increased.

The top eight recipient countries accounted for 65 percent of total food aid deliveries: Ethiopia (25 percent); Pakistan (13 percent); the Sudan (8 percent); Haiti and Kenya (5 percent each); Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger (3 percent each).

This annual Food Aid Flows Report gives an overview of trends in global food aid deliveries by donor governments, non-governmental organizations and WFP which also includes additional statistical information as Annexes.