The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) – considered the world’s largest humanitarian organisation – was at the forefront of the global response to the devastating Ethiopian Famine of 1984 and 1985, during which more than a million people died.
Forty years on, if you drive through many parts of Ethiopia, you will still regularly see big, blue and white WFP trucks traversing the country’s roads. They form part of a 515-strong fleet of vehicles helping to feed the country of 130 million, which remains one of the world’s poorest nations and is one of the most climate-vulnerable.
