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WFP says needs $1bn for Africa food aid
Rome :: Italy | 10 days ago
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The UN emergency food aid agency needs $1 billion to feed 20 million people in east Africa over the next six months, it said on Wednesday. Around half of that money is needed for Ethiopia alone, Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of emergencies at the World...
Tags: east Africa, food aid, wfp says, Italy, Rome, Humanitarian aid, Horn of Africa, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, Drought, African Union member states, African countries, Poverty, Disaster Accident, Environment
GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 11 days ago
Credibility Good quality food aid can save billions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on saving lives, says a major report from the World Bank, one of two new studies that uncover some unsettling facts about food aid and malnutrition. Spending US$200 to treat...
Tags: The World Bank, food aid, bank study, million children, MSF, Stéphane Doyon, food security, bank reports, addressing malnutrition, South Africa, Johannesburg, Humanitarian aid, Poverty, Mￃﾩdecins Sans Frontiￃﾨres, Food, Nutrition, Food politics, Malnutrition, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
UN: 23-million go hungry in Horn of Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 11 days ago
Credibility United Nations officials say years of drought and war, as well as high food prices and the global financial crisis, have made the Horn of Africa one of the most critical hunger areas in the world, with 23-million people not getting enough to eat. The...
Tags: Ethiopia, food aid, Addis Ababa, Malnutrition, African countries, world food price crisis, World Food Programme, Food security, Food politics, Food and Agriculture Organization, Horn of Africa, Environment, Disaster Accident, Famine, Meles Zenawi, Humanitarian aid, Poverty, Agriculture in Ethiopia
The many roads to food security
Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | 12 days ago
Credibility The world is in what is essentially a pause in a continuing food crisis. Most of the elements that produced the food price spikes in 2007 and 2008 are still there: a trade system marred by protectionism; production incentives distorted by subsidies; artificial...
Tags: food security, Burkina Faso, food aid, Ouagadougou, Food, Famine, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Disaster Accident, Food politics, world food price crisis
Arroyo irritated by food caravan delay
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility President Macapagal-Arroyo voiced irritation Tuesday apparently over the sight that greeted her on her return Sunday night from the Asean summit in Thailand: a long line of trucks laden with relief goods still waiting to be flagged off outside Malaca�ang.
Tags: Philippines, U.S, Tom Vilsack, provide food, food aid
US pledges $8.5-M food aid
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility Philippines�-The Philippines stands to receive $8.5 million worth of food assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture for victims of the recent weather disturbances. In a courtesy call on President Macapagal-Arroyo in Malaca�ang Monday...
Tags: food aid, United States
ASEAN leaders look forward to CMIM fund launching by end of 2009
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. (PNA) * Name:
Tags: Philippines, U.S, Philippine Press, food aid, agriculture secretary, Makati
S Korea offers food aid to North
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 month ago
Credibility The South also offered 20 tons of milk powder and medicine for children, pregnant women and other vulnerable people, its unification ministry said...It would be the first official one since a conservative government came to power in Seoul in February...
Tags: North Korea, South Korea, Seoul, humanitarian aid, food aid
South Korea halts large-scale aid to North
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 month ago
Credibility North Korea can expect less than 5 tons of corn in humanitarian aid from South Korea this year, a senior government official said. North Korea Friday requested aid during Red Cross talks on cross-border family reunions, South Korea's Yonhap news agency...
Tags: south koreas, North Korea, north koreas, South Korea, Seoul, food aid
Ethiopia?s biggest opposition says "no intent" to boycott election
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | about 1 month ago
Credibility With Ethiopia’s national election approaching to go, some opposition groups have reportedly begun to hint boycott from the upcoming election, accusing Ethiopian government of already stepping up harassment against them. Ethiopia’s biggest alliance of...
Tags: Ethiopian, food aid, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
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