Excerpt from Management of U. S. Donations to the World Food Program: Hearing Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress Second Session May 5, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. John Conyers, Jr. (chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Members present: Representatives John Conyers, Jr. and A1 McCandless. Subcommittee staff present: James C. Turner, staff director; Miranda G. Katsoyannis, professional staff member; Rosalind Burke-Alexander, clerk; and Jane 0. Cobb, minority professional staff. Opening Statement Of Chairman Conyers Mr. CONYERS. The Legislation and National Security Subcommittee on Government Operations will come to order. We meet to review the management problems that Diague one of the most critical humanitarian efforts supported by the United States, the World Food Program. Over the past 33 years the World Food Program has been on the front lines of disaster relief. This United Nations agency, which is our principal means of responding to man-made or natural disasters abroad, receives annually American donations of over $372 million worth of food and commodities for humanitarian relief. In 1992 alone, the World Food Program fed 42 million people and supplied $1.7 billion of food for more than 258 development projects in 90 countries. This aid represents 60 percent of all international emergency food relief. In recent years, the U.S. Government has increasingly relied upon the World Food Program to be responsible for managing the distribution of our humanitarian donations. The sound management of this program takes on a special urgency today when we confront the reality that over 200 million people are at risk of malnutrition and starvation in East Africa as a result of conflict-related problems and drought. Because these efforts are so important, when the subcommittee received reports of mismanagement and slow response to disasters by this important program, I asked the General Accounting Office to conduct the first comprehensive review of its operations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to become the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development against the background of the evolution and development of food aid. This dual role has put WFP in the front line of the United Nations attack on poverty, hunger and food insecurity.