Programs: Logistics
Delivering food to the world’s most remote and challenging locations under precarious security conditions can be one of the toughest yet most important tasks on the planet. But the United Nations World Food Programme is a logistics expert.
WFP is pausing the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice after a WFP team came under fire a few meters from an Israeli check point at the Wadi Gaza bridge.
Here is a timeline of humanitarian aid challenges in Gaza throughout the conflict.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and World Food Program USA have jointly contributed $4.3 million to help construct and support an emergency response logistics hub in Barbados.
Tropical Storm Franklin is bringing heavy rains, floods, storm surges and strong winds. The U.N. World Food Programme is prepositioning food in both the Dominican Republic and Haiti for the most vulnerable communities in the storm's path.
In the world's youngest country, WFP is empowering communities by constructing roads to improve food security and develop rural economies.
The first shipment of Ukrainian wheat grain bound for WFP's humanitarian response left Ukraine’s Yuzhny port yesterday, marking another important milestone in getting Ukrainian grain back into global markets.
The packaging of WFP’s food has a lot to accomplish. It has to protect and preserve food, provide information on safe use and disposal, be able to withstand a variety of climates, sit for extended periods of time, allow for effective transport and tracking – and be environmentally sustainable.
As WFP's food safety and quality officer in Juba, Ume oversees the entire South Sudan operation – from food inspections to management of any issues with the products and packaging.
For World Radio Day, we’re taking a look at how the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)-led Emergency Telecommunications Cluster is connecting internally displaced persons to family members miles away.
Cyclone Batsirai made landfall in Madagascar on Saturday evening with wind gusts of 146 mph. At least six people are confirmed dead and nearly 50,000 are displaced.
Three weeks after Super Typhoon Odette devastated a huge swathe of the Philippines, WFP is warning that nutrition and food security are at risk in communities in hard-hit areas unless immediate food needs are met soon.
The Weeknd’s ambassadorship and advocacy has helped shed a global spotlight on the rising tide of global hunger and send relief to countries affected by conflict, like his parents’ home of Ethiopia.