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Key Publications


FEED MINDS, CHANGE LIVES: School feeding, the Millennium Development Goals and Girls' Empowerment

School feeding responds directly to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to hunger and poverty (MDG 1), education (MDG 2) and gender equality (MDG 3), and indirectly to child mortality and maternal health...

WFP in Africa : 2010 Facts and Figures

WFP assists African governments and communities to implement comprehensive country-led hunger solution programmes.  WFP spends more than 50 percent of its global assistance in Africa.  In 2010, out of the...

Logistics: We Deliver

Logistics is at the core of WFP operations  Each year, WFP distributes over five million metric tonnes of food, facing the challenge of reaching an average of 95 million beneficiaries across some of the toughest...

WFP and Safe Access to Firewood

"Safe, fuel-efficient stoves enable women to be the frontline champions in the battle against climate change and hunger and empower communities with immediate, practical, adaptation solutions" -  WFP...

WFP and the Millenium Development Goals

Through the United Nations' Millenium Development Goals, together with its partners, WFP aims to build a nutritional foundation for a world free of hunger. With more resources and greater political will,...

WFP Aviation Annual Review 2009

In 2009, WFP Aviation provided safe, efficient and reliable air transport services: using an average of 53 aircraft per month, WFP Aviation transported 323,713 passengers and 12,412 mt of humanitarian cargo in 44,200...

World Food Programme in China 1979-2003

A celebration of 30 years of cooperation : Originally established in 1979 as a means of providing relief through food assistance, the partnership between
the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the...

Hunger and Climate Change

There are more than one billion hungry people in the world – and climatic changes threaten to significantly increase the number of people at risk of hunger and undernutrition.

Climate Change and Hunger - Responding to the Challenge

Climate change is a defining challenge of our times. Its impact and implications will be global, far-reaching and largely irreversible. Climate change is already increasing the risk of exposure to hunger,...

Ready to help - Reaching the right people, in the right places, fast.

Preparedness is an investment against man-made and natural disasters. It means we use our resources wisely and efficiently, and our knowledge to reduce the risk of a bad situation becoming even worse.
When...