Food aid is viewed at WFP as a means to achieve food security.

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WFP has correspondingly increased food distribution, delivering food assistance to over 1 million beneficiaries in July and increasing the number of food drop locations in the region.

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Needs and rights relating to food and food security

In order to improve food security, especially in some developing countries that remain food insecure, there is a need to significantly increase food supply and improve food distribution through more sustainable agricultural systems.

The World Food Programme (WFP) was in the forefront of mobilizing and distributing food to some 50,000 earthquake victims.

Fifty per cent of the overall WFP expenditure for food transport was spent in Africa.

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WFP will provide the returnees with a three month food ration as well as non food items.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) identified vulnerable non refugee beneficiaries for targeted support in food insecure areas.

The right to adequate food is not simply a matter of the abundance of food, but also of its quality.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and NEPAD jointly carried out a study on national food reserve systems in Africa and how they could be improved to better contribute to improving food security and coping capacities for dealing with food crises.

In accordance with a contingency plan to guarantee food security, the World Food Programme (WFP), in cooperation with the Government, has begun to put in place strategic food reserves supplied by local purchase of rice from surplus production areas.

In Sierra Leone, WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led development of the first food security strategy for the Government.

And during harvest, put it back with interest, food interest.

Desertification contributed to poverty, hunger, disease and food insecurity.

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Today, food aid, our food aid huge engine 80 percent of it is bought in the developing world.

In this context, WFP will distribute food supplies, particularly rice, to the most vulnerable population groups whose need for food assistance has been clearly established.

Global availability did not mean that food reached those who needed it most.

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Well two years ago, we decided, let's transform the model of fighting hunger, and instead of giving out the food aid, we put it into food banks.

Indigenous Foods and Local Food Security

The rising costs of food, declining food security, lower production costs and cutbacks in public subsidies on basic foodstuffs are also obstacles to the realization of the right to adequate food.

Agreement between IFAD and the World Food Programme (WFP) would also cover resource mobilization for CCD activities where food aid and resources of the WFP would be required.

On food aid, while there is general understanding that food aid should not cause commercial displacement, what constitutes genuine food aid remains to be defined.

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