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School meals key to education?
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 5 hours ago
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Zoellick in a foreword to the Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector report. The report noted that school meal programmes are most effective when twinned with other measures such as de-worming and provision...
Tags: schools meals, meals programmes, World Bank, WFP, New York City, Fill the Cup, Josette Sheeran, Education, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, United Nations, Meals on Wheels
Buy local, Somali rebels tell WFP
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 5 hours ago
Credibility The al-Shabab group issued a statement saying the WFP must start buying from Somali farmers, saying mass importing had devastated local agriculture. Analysts say al-Shabab is hoping to boost its support in farming areas. Drought and war has left more...
Tags: WFP, Somalia, Mogadishu, timeline of the War in Somalia, War Conflict, Fill the Cup, World Food Programme, Malnutrition, Kismayo, Hizbul Islam, War in Somalia, Politics of Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Islamist groups
SYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall
Damascus :: Syria | 1 day ago
Credibility With a few weeks left before the end of this year’s planting season, UN officials have raised concerns over the lack of funds to help drought-hit farmers and herders in northeastern Syria. “The situation is worrying. We have six weeks left before we miss...
Tags: Syrian, Abdulla Bin Yehia, WFP, drought response, IRIN, animal feed, told irin, Mohamad Alloush, Syria, Damascus, Food politics, Drought, Malnutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme, Environment, Disaster Accident
Hunger is the lack of rain
“Hunger is the lack of rain.” ("A fome é a falta de chuva"): these are the words of a local farmer from Chicualacuala, a small town situated in the South-west of Mozambique, when asked about the causes of food insecurity in the country.With...
Iraq: UN food agency launches school programme
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 days ago
Credibility The United Nations food agency has launched a school feeding programme in Iraq, providing some 172,000 children with a free daily snack to help boost attendance and learning in eight of the country’s poorest districts. Under the 1.6 million dollar World...
Tags: Iraq, food agency, WFP, Baghdad, United Nations, Fill the Cup, Malnutrition, World Food Programme, Education in Iraq, Education
Food vouchers on cellphones
Sim :: Russia | 29 days ago
Credibility Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday. In a test project targeting 1 000 Iraqi refugee families, the US agency will send a $22 voucher every two months by...
Tags: food voucher, WFP
UN shuts down food centres in northwest: spokesman
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The UN’s World Food Programme on Wednesday closed distribution centres serving more than two million people in northwest Pakistan over security fears, a spokesman for the agency said. The move affecting the Swat Valley region comes after a suicide...
Tags: educational institutions, distribution centres, food distribution, security fears, WFP
Diplomats, officials, pay respect to slain WFP employees F.P. Report
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Diplomats, officials, pay respect to slain WFP employees F.P. Some 500 diplomats, Pakistan government officials, United Nations senior officials and staff and family and friends gathered for a memorial to pay respects to the World Food Programme staff...
Tags: pakistan, taliban, South Waziristan, Pakistan Army General Headquarters, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, staff members, Islamabad, pay respects, WFP
Toxic maize pits farmers against WFP
Garissa :: Kenya | about 1 month ago
Credibility About 238 bags of highly toxic maize have disappeared from stores at the Bura Irrigation and Settlement Scheme in a case that is pitting the WFP against farmers in the region. Fears abound that the maize may have been stolen and found its way into the...
Tags: Bura Irrigation, toxic maize, WFP
UN's Ban Ki-moon condemns Islamabad attack
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility A suicide bomb attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) office in Islamabad that killed five people on Monday was a 'heinous crime,' United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said. 'This is a terrible tragedy for the UN and for the whole humanitarian...
Tags: pakistan, taliban, un world food program office, Pakistan Taliban, terrorist, Pakistani, Friends of Democratic Pakistan, Islamabad, WFP, suicide bomber
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