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

Food rations to the internees are provided by the World Food Programme.

Furthermore, WFP relied heavily on private transport, which often crosses national boundaries, for overland food transport.

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution 876 000

Average monthly food deliveries exceed 21,000 tons.

The 800 tons of food allowed by the Taliban administration to be transported to the Hazarajat region, in addition to 1,700 tons of food purchased by WFP in the region, is not enough.

The Nutrition Surveillance System recommended by a joint WFP UNHCR Food Assessment mission will be operational at the beginning of 1997.

50. In addition to expanding its air operations, WFP continued to explore other, more cost effective means of delivering food aid.

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distributions

For instance, WFP generally provided food supplies on the basis of assessments carried out by DPCCN, which also transported it to the reception areas.

Food continues to be brought in by WFP and others through Tajikistan, but this route could be affected by any intensification of hostilities.

Food was either transported by DPCCN, NGOs, or WFP itself, and distributed upon arrival by DPCCN and NGOs.

As a direct consequence, farmers were not able to produce as much food and lacked reliable means of distributing it.

An international non governmental organization is trying to arrange for the transport of 30 tons of food from Pul e Khumri to the area, but there may be a need for additional stocks to be brought in for the winter.

However, in RENAMO areas, DPCCN did not participate in food transport and delivery.

For example, WFP procures in Turkey the majority of food aid to assist Iraq, and also uses transport facilities available in the region for mobilizing food aid.

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

WFP was consequently forced to undertake costly airlifts to Wau.

WFP began addressing its humanitarian access problems to Gaza through purchasing 93 per cent of its food commodities locally within the Strip.

In order to get food aid into Seafa UNRWA was forced to offload it and pass it through an X ray machine.

In the case of Jordan, WFP has utilized, where relevant, the port of Aqaba in its activities related to food distribution.

10. World Food Programme (WFP)

After careful review of the data presented by FSAU, WFP Somalia devised an operational plan based on distributing 4,000 tons per month, delivered by road, air, boat, donkey cart and manpower to a vulnerable population of just under 500,000 persons.

In the same period, WFP southern sector delivered 11,433 metric tonnes of food aid to an average of 383,600 beneficiaries each month.

Difficulties were also experienced in transporting non food items to Bosnia.

INFOODS International Network of Food Data Systems

We may recall the hijacking of a World Food Programme ship carrying food assistance in the waters off the coast of Somalia in June this year.

It had demonstrated a marked increase in efficiency by moving increasing tonnages of food without a proportionate rise in overheads.

The Security Council deplores the recent hijacking of a vessel off the coast of Somalia that had been chartered by the World Food Programme (WFP) and was carrying food aid for tsunami victims, and notes the subsequent decision by the WFP to suspend all shipments of humanitarian assistance to Somalia.

Kassu Asgedon WFP Detained in Ethiopia since 4 September 1991.

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.

(d) Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP)

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.

(i) Food production

(iii) Food distribution

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

18. The embargo s main effect on the transport of food is to increase shipping costs, since it denies Cuba access to the United States market.

53. On 31 August 1995, a WFP vehicle transporting the WFP finance officer was forced to stop by three armed men and robbed at gunpoint.

In particular, it will work with UNICEF to develop appropriate mine awareness programmes in refugee camps and with the World Food Programme (WFP) for the safe delivery of food.

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 treaty with Egypt must be made.