Revolution: from food aid to food assistance - Innovations in overcoming hunger

This book documents a compilation of state-of-the-art food assistance innovations by the World Food Programme. It lays out both new tools, such as insurance-based tools for disaster risk reduction, and traditional responses that provide life-saving relief, improve nutrition, enhance human capital and strengthen food markets, while supporting country-led food security strategies.

It aims to meet the dual objective to: (i) deploy safety nets to sustainably and comprehensively beat hunger and cushion vulnerable populations from inevitable shocks; and (ii) respond to emergencies, so disasters like hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes do not turn into humanitarian tragedies. It also intends to help connect individuals, communities and nations to the ladder of opportunity, building resilience against disaster, providing jobs, education, nutrition, health and moving nations to sustainable food security. It captures best practices, with for example the use of insurance products as a way to anticipate the possible effects of disasters or the benefit of insurance schemes to protect against droughts and floods for farmers in Ethiopia and China.