 The United Nations World Food Programme was officially established in 1963 by parallel resolutions of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the UN General Assembly. WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Its operations aim at saving lives in situations of crisis, improving nutrition and quality of life of most vulnerable people, and enabling development by promoting self-reliance. WFP is also the UN's leading logistics agency, with other organisations frequently relying on the WFP lifeline to reach the world's most hostile environments. The Agency is committed to deliver food assistance to the right people, to the right place, at the right time and at the right price. Whatever the cause, as the world's largest food aid agency, WFP is on the frontline of the humanitarian response.
In 2007, the MCFEA announced a grant to the World Food Programme (WFP) for a sustainable agriculture project in Zambia. This is for the first year of a potential multi-year project, with expenditure of US$50,000 (around £25,000) per year.
The aim of this project is to protect the food and nutrition security of targeted households while assisting them to regain, increase and diversify sustainable productive capacity. The population targeted will be over 11,000 people in 1,900 households in the Central Province of Zambia. These are highly vulnerable, food-insecure and asset-poor households that have lost crops and productive capacity to both flood and drought. Families headed by women will be prioritized in beneficiary selection.
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