WFP Supply Chain

Mozambique is facing its worst flooding in decades—and access to many affected areas has been cut off. With rivers overflowing and key roads from Maputo airport completely inaccessible, WFP and EU in Emergencies are stepping in to deliver life-saving assistance where it’s needed most. A EU humanitarian air bridge—a multi-step, highly complex logistics operation—is now in place to reach communities isolated by rising waters. ✈️ Two large aircraft flew from the WFP-managed UNHRD hub in Dubai to Nairobi, transporting 95 metric tons of ECHO-donated relief items for CARE International. From there, critical supplies—including family tents, mosquito nets, water purification tablets, jerrycans, tarpaulins and shelter toolkits—are being moved via seven smaller aircraft, each carrying 13.6 metric tons, to Beira, closer to the hardest-hit areas. 🤝 This air bridge is enabling the rapid deployment of emergency supplies to support families who have lost their homes, belongings and access to essential services.

This is Identity Management in action. We use AI to ensure that WFP’s food assistance is delivered efficiently, with trust, dignity, and accountability. By securing the identities of the people WFP serves, our Identity Management team strengthens data governance, ensuring that assistance is fair, transparent, and reaches the right people at the right time.👇

In Burundi, the World Food Programme supports small milling groups in producing fortified flour for families across the country. 🌾 Fortified flour contains essential micronutrients like vitamins, iron and zinc, improving its nutritional value and serving as a vital food in the fight against malnutrition—especially for children under five, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. WFP provides training, equipment and fortification premix to strengthen milling operations and help ensure that fortified products reach communities safely and efficiently. Hear from Jeanne Francoise NIBOGORA, WFP Food Technologist on the ground.👇

💡 Buying food directly in the countries where we operate makes a meaningful difference. It reduces transport distances, stretches every dollar further, and strengthens farmers’ livelihoods and local value chains—helping food reach families faster during emergencies. Sudan is among the countries where the World Food Programme procures the largest amounts of food locally. In 2025, we sourced 35,357 metric tons of food in-country. Hear from WFP Procurement Officer Muiaser Hassan as he explains why and how WFP buys sorghum—a key part of our food basket—from local farmers. 👇

It’s #WarehouseWednesday and we set off to #Bangladesh, to spotlight our new logistics hub in Ramu, in the Cox’s Bazar district. This new hub, inaugurated in December 2025, includes 16 mobile storage tents able to store up to 4,000 metric tons of humanitarian supplies. Strategically positioned, it helps reduce inland transport distances and accelerate the delivery of food to camps and hosts communities in Cox Bazar. The warehouse also provides crucial storage for other humanitarian partners’s supplies, including tempearature-sensitive cargo, with WFP making its nationwide long-term transport agreements available to partners to reduce administrative burden, overhead, and duplication. 🤝

How do we deliver food to over 100 million people every year? Partnerships make it happen. 🤝 WFP Supply Chain works with 19 amazing companies and foundations—Fondation CMA CGM, Mastercard Foundation, DHL, Kemin Industries, Mars, Mondi Group, UPS, Renault Trucks, Carrier, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, and more. They bring funding, expertise, networks, and innovative solutions that help us move food smarter, faster, further. With 70% of humanitarian spending tied to supply chains, working together is more important than ever. Thank you to our partners for joining us on this journey. ➡️ Want to make a difference? Partner with WFP Supply Chain and help us reach even more people in need. #WEF26

Great to see UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York and discuss how the World Food Programme is driving efficiencies across the humanitarian system. We’re ready to do even more to leverage our global logistics capacity and supply chain networks with United Nations partners to reduce costs and save more lives.

How does food assistance reach the people who need it most? By river. By rail. By air. By sea. Across borders, over mountains, along rivers—navigating challenging routes and negotiating access. Whatever it takes, the World Food Programme gets food where it’s needed most—because every journey can mean the difference between families having a meal or going without. 🛥️ Follow a single bag of grain from a farm in Uganda to a community at the Bentiu refugee camp in South Sudan. By riverboat along the White Nile, our teams get it there. Supply chains are lifelines in motion. Every step is part of the story. 💙

How is WFP reaching more families in need in Uganda with fewer resources? The answer: smarter data. 📊 Using the data analytics tool Optimus, our teams can plan, source, move, and store food more efficiently—reducing costs across the supply chain. These efficiencies save around US$ 1 million every month. That’s enough to support an additional 200,000 refugees and schoolchildren with the food they rely on. Hear from WFP Head of Supply Chain Ian Figgins as he explains. ⤵️