You are in the cockpit of a plane circling over a drought-hit zone. Hungry thousands are waiting below. Their lives are in your hands.

You take the aircraft into a steep climb before launching your first airdrop of food aid. Now the truck that has picked up the food is struggling over a muddy and treacherous road. Between the truck - with you now at the steering wheel - and the waiting hungry, rebels loom.

You are in the midst of a virtual food aid mission. The first humanitarian video game on global hunger to be released by the Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), ‘Food Force’ can be downloaded for free off the Internet and played on PC or Mac computers. Its aim is to raise awareness of food needs around the world in a language that children understand.

	Gamers can do their bit
	Understanding the threat of starvation