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Africa: Additional U.S.$70 Million in Food Aid Announced By United States
Rome :: NY :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility
World Food Programme (WFP) December 9, providing an additional 92,310 metric tons of food for the 2010 calendar year.
Tags: food aid, U.S, Rome, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, Disaster Accident
UN to cut back food aid to Nepal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 1 day ago
Credibility The WFP says it needs to raise $20m in order to provide enough assistance over the next three months. The organisation provides aid through a food-for-work scheme to 1.6 million Nepalis throughout the country. It gives food supplies in exchange for work...
Tags: Nepal, food aid, WFP, Kathmandu, Environment, Fill the Cup, Famine, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, world food price crisis, Disaster Accident
Canada Announces Additional Support to the World Food Programme
Khartoum :: Sudan | 7 days ago
Credibility Minister Oda. "As the number of people who have moved into extreme poverty and hunger increases around the globe, Canada continues to respond as the third largest single-country donor to the World Food Programme. The additional funding I am announcing...
Tags: WFP, Canada Announces Additional Support, Sudan, food aid, vulnerable populations, internally displaced, helping meeting, displaced persons, urgent need, feeding programs, Khartoum, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, Refugee, Food and Agriculture Organization, Poverty, Social Issues, Internally displaced person, Forced migration, Population, Disaster Accident
Democratic Voice of Burma: UN aid ‘loaned’ to Chin famine victims – Francis Wade
Hart :: MI :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Chin state is currently suffering from an acute food crisis, due largely to a mass rodent infestation which is destroying farmland and food supplies...Villagers claim they have been told they must repay twice the amount they are given, either in cash...
Tags: UNDP, India-Burma, Chin state, food aid, Hart, Burma, Development, world food price crisis, Disaster Accident, Paletwa Township, Aid, Military dictatorship, United Nations Development Programme
WFP says needs $1bn for Africa food aid
Rome :: Italy | 22 days ago
Credibility 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 | 22 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 | 23 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 | 23 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
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