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Key Publications


Remarks of the WFP Executive Director for World Food Day 2010; Rome, Italy (15/10/10)

I want to dedicate my remarks on the 30th World Food Day to a dream. Nelson Mandela had a dream.  Mahatma Ghandi had a dream.  Martin Luther King had a dream. Norman Borlaug had a dream.

Revolution: From Food Aid to Food Assistance - Innovations in Overcoming Hunger

“… modern WFP not only delivers food – it delivers hunger solutions. It is not instrument-based, but problem-based. This historical shift – the revolution – has positioned WFP as a...

Purchase for Progress

With P4P, WFP uses its purchasing power in new ways that will develop agricultural markets and support smallholder farmers' engagement in those markets.

LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: Good Practices From 45 Years of School Feeding

The World Food Programme has worked with governments and NGOs on school feeding programmes for 45 years.  As the leading organization in this field, WFP is committed to learning from and sharing its experiences...

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...

P4P Monthly Updates - 2010

Every month the P4P team produces a handy PDF outlining all the key developments in this innovative five-year pilot programme to connect smallholder farmers to markets.

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,...