The WFP always makes for a great source for nightmare to navigate countryside, horrendously difficult terrain and unique logistical predicaments us traditional office working logisticians usually don't come along throughout our day to day duties. Last month I posted another interesting article on the Libyan Desert Corridor (Link); this month a transcript from an interview discussing the current food epidemic in Nepal, South East Asia.
Nepal may be small, but the mountainous country presents vast logistical challenges to WFP. Country Director Richard Ragan talks to web writer Michelle Hough about the peace process and WFP's creative responses to Nepal's challenges.
1.WFP has over 40 years’ experience in logistics, but how does it cope with the remoteness of many communities in Nepal?
On a clear day, I pull myself out of bed in Kathmandu, which sits squarely in the middle of the country, and from my rooftop see Mount Shisapagma.
It's the 12th highest mountain in a country which is home to eight of the 14 highest mountains on earth. Just behind it sits Tibet so Nepal is really quite a narrow country. But one shouldn't be fooled by the size, geographically this stands as the most challenging place I've ever worked.
Sometimes I feel like we're trapped, logistically speaking, in an expanded version of Steve Martin's famous movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" that should be called "Planes, Porters, Tractors, Trucks, Yaks, Donkeys and Helicopters”.So far, the only things we haven't exploited for delivering food are elephants.
A SPECIAL BIG THANKS to the World Food Program for this detailed logistical insight. As a token of your appreciation, if you can afford it please click here and make a small donation now.
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