As the aid goes in, Afghans continue to flee the country
The United Nations is taking its first consignment of food to the Afghan capital, Kabul, from Pakistan for a week.
Six trucks arrived in the eastern town of Jalalabad on Monday and now nearly 50 trucks are on their way to the capital.
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) says that what is now needed is peace and stability so that aid agencies can step up the convoys.
The WFP has only managed to get a quarter of the supplies needed into Afghanistan in the past week.
Truck drivers had refused to go in from Pakistan because they said the situation was too unstable.
Road 'safe'
But on Monday, six trucks carrying 90 tons of food travelled from Pakistan's border town of Peshawar to Jalalabad.
And another convoy has now set off directly for Kabul from Pakistan.
The truck drivers apparently believe the road is safe although four journalists were killed by unknown people on a stretch between Jalalabad and Kabul on Monday.
The drivers still do not want to travel from the other border town of Quetta, further south, because of the uncertainty around the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar.
Once the food arrives in Afghanistan, it still needs to be transported to the millions who depend on food aid, following the country's worst drought in living memory.
The WFP is finding it difficult to reach some northern provinces where food supplies are low and wants to get the maximum supplies to the central highlands before some areas are cut off by winter weather next month.
However, the defeat of the Taleban has made some areas more accessible and the WFP's spokesman said airdrops appeared less crucial than before.
The WFP also hopes that the Uzbek Government will open the Friendship Bridge which links it to Afghanistan.
At the moment, food supplies from Uzbekistan are being brought in by barges, which are slow and have limited capacity.