Post-harvest storage in Uganda

Mark Brennan, Emily GoodingPartners: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Makerere University Various technologies have been developed to improve post-harvest food storage and reduce PHL. These products...

Optimizing a WFP warehouse in Ethiopia

Gina Malaver, Colin RegnierPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Humanitarian logistic organizations struggle to make strategic and tactical decisions due to their lack of resources, the unpredictability of humanitarian events and the...

Cost Drivers in Food Aid Transportation

Marie-Eve Rancourt, Jarrod GoentzelPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) This project modeled transportation pricing for the WFP’s Ethiopian supply chain.  Empirical research characterizing transportation markets in developing countries is...

Humanitarian Aid in Less Secure Regions

Vidya Chander, Lauren ShearPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) The World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations food agency, has recently acquired the difficult task of transporting aid into the Somali region of Ethiopia.  The political...