The Centre provides advice on policies and programmes, technical assistance, and opportunities, and it brings together nations of the southern hemisphere and helps them develop their own programmes to fight hunger and poverty. That is possible thanks to the combination of more than 50 years of work of the WFP in actions to fight hunger in the whole world with the successful experiences of the Brazilian Government in the elaboration and implementation of effective and sustainable programmes for the promotion of food and nutritional security and overcoming of poverty, mainly through school feeding.