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WFP Annual report 2009

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In 2008, the World Food Program (WFP) faced a particularly difficult set of challenges, provoked by dramatically rising food and fuel prices and aggravated by widespread turmoil in international financial systems. By year’s end, WFP delivered an unprecedented amount of food — almost four million metric ton — to more than 102 million people in 78 countries.

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