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Key Publications
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...
Opening Remarks to the WFP Executive Board; Rome, Italy (08/02/10)
My thanks to all who have been mentioned in a year of service, your great service to the World Food Programme. Mr. President, I think it is unanimous, you have successfully shepherded this Board through a challenging...
Speech by OCHA Emergency Response Coordinator Sir John Holmes to WFP executive board - Rome (08/02/10)
“WFP’s Role in the Humanitarian Assistance System”
Occasional Paper 21 - Capacity Development for Hunger Solutions: Policy and Operational Frameworks - S.W. Omamo, H. Johnstone, U. Gentilini
Recent upheavals in the global food system have exposed tens of millions more people across the world to hunger. They have also laid bare the pressing need for investment in the policy, institutional, organizational...
Climate Change: Enabling People to Adapt for the Future
Over the years, WFP has helped governments and communities plant billions of trees, create thousands of kilometres of flood defences, rehabilitate roads, reconstruct dams, and terrace millions of hectares ...
Occasional Paper 20 - Unveiling Social Safety Nets - U. Gentilini and S.W. Omamo
Interest in safety nets and social protection is growing exponentially. Ways of strengthening them are called for in high-level statements, researched in academic articles, and implemented by practitioners. Such...
Occasional Paper 19 - Agricultural Development and Nutrition: the Policies behind China’s Success - J. Huang and S. Rozelle
China’s success in economic development is nothing short of extraordinary and has been the subject of countless studies. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the fundamental role that...
CSIS “Our Global Challenges Series” Dialogue: Ending Poverty And Hunger; Washington, DC (24/11/09)
We’re discussing the first millennium development goal, which is about ending extreme hunger and poverty, and the target – specifically by 2015 – of cutting the proportion of hungry and those living...
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.
