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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: food supply + needs grow + wfp  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)


Vanguard
Nigeria: Food Crisis - How Prepared is Nigeria to Tide Over the ...
AllAfrica.com, Washington -
The WFP estimates it needs an additional $500 million to keep feeding the 73 million people in Africa, Asia and Central America who require its help. ...
Nigeria and the global food crisis Daily Sun
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The world's crumbling food security
The Daily Star, Bangladesh - May 4, 2008
The two emerging powers have the largest populations to feed and, hence, an enormous amount of food to grow to meet their needs. ...
Food for thought for the US President
Merinews, India - May 3, 2008
In Rome, a nutritionist with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) rightly pointed out, ?Global price rises mean that food is literally being taken out of the ...
Food crisis needs aid on scale of tsunami to avert famine
Independent, UK - Apr 22, 2008
Leaders in South America have also warned about the impact of biofuel production on food supply. Mr Brown said that global problems of food supply were ...

Voice of America
WFP says High Food Prices Affecting Every Continent
Voice of America - Apr 22, 2008
Sheeran says the world should take the rising prices as a wake-up call for long-term investment that could solve the problem of food supply. ...

BBC News
UN food chief urges crisis action
BBC News, UK - Apr 22, 2008
In the short term, she said the WFP needed increased donations to make sure it could meet the needs of those who already relied on it, because its budget ...

Environment News Service
UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis
Environment News Service - Apr 28, 2008
The UN World Food Programme, WFP, aims to feed 73 million people globally this year, but the agency now estimates it needs at least US$500 million more than ...
UN leaders meet to chart solution to food crisis
Reuters South Africa, South Africa - Apr 28, 2008
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened the heads of 27 international agencies including the World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP), and World Trade ...
Global Food Crisis: The Tickling Bomb
OhmyNews International, South Korea - Apr 26, 2008
"The recent drastic rise in food prices means the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) now needs more than $750 million to meet its commitment to feed ...
UN sees food prices unleashing silent tsunami
elEconomista.es, Spain - Apr 22, 2008
Sheeran said WFP, which last year estimated it would need$2.9 billion in 2008 to cover its needs, now calculated itwould have to raise that figure by one ...
Source: Google News

How effectively does multilateral food aid respond to fluctuating needs? -
CB Barrett, KC Heisey - Food Policy, 2002 - Elsevier
... imports fall and food aid needs grow, but food ... to the operational peculiarities and
supply-driven politics ... to the nature of contemporary food aid, irrespective ...

Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry -
NE Borlaug - Plant Physiology, 2000 - Am Soc Plant Biol
... from the South African organization Biowatch, says "The US does not need to grow
nor donate ... the wheat groups we rely on for much of our food supply are the ...

A future food aid regime: Implications of final act of the Uruguay round -
DJ Shaw, HW Singer - Food Policy, 1996 - Elsevier
... USSR received almost a quarter of global food supplies, more than ... food to meet their
basic daily needs for nutritional ... A future food aid regime: DJ Shaw and H ...

SIMPLIFIED HYDROPONICS TO REDUCE GLOBAL HUNGER
P Bradley, C Marulanda - World Congress on Soilless Culture: Agriculture in the …, 2000 - ISHS
... high productivity by ensuring a refreshed air supply of oxygen ... to educate and provide
information to those most in need. ... Guatemala 1996 World Food Program (WFP ...

Food Aid Effectiveness: It's the Targeting, Stupid! -
CB BARRETT - papers.ssrn.com
... to help households when they most need it, create ... income effects that reduce labor
supply (Kanbur et al ... working undermines much popular support for food aid and ...

The Impact of a Reduced and Uncertain Food Supply in Three Besieged Cities of Bosnia-Hercegovina -
F WATSON, J VESPA - Disasters, 1995 - Blackwell Synergy
... and 94 per cent were delivered to Sarajevo (WFP, 1993 ... to meet 100 per cent of energy
needs at black ... Reduced and Uncertain Food Supply in Three Besieged Cities ...

Food and cash for work in Ethiopia: Experiences during famine and macroeconomic reform -
P Webb, SK Kumar - Employment for poverty reduction and food security, 1995 - books.google.com
... the structural deficit between food supply and demand ... adapted to perceptions of
prevailing need. ... channeled through the World Food Programme (WFP), which uses ...

[BOOK] Closing the Cereals Gap with Trade and Food Aid -
B Huddleston - 1984 - books.google.com
... import dependence, food aid, and food supply adequacy in ... First, countries in which
food availability appears adequate ... market, and with little need for food aid ...

The Geography of Food Aid
JR Tarrant - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1980 - JSTOR
... in the Indian subcontinent, the international need for food aid will grow, not diminish ...
from the extreme pessimism concerning food supplies which followed ...

… with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints: Issues of Food, Agriculture, and Development -
N Alexandratos - Population and Development Review, 2005 - Blackwell Synergy
... large population increases and ever-growing rural populations ... 7 There is a clear
need for integrating the ... for increasing incomes and food supplies and creating ...

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WFP Warns Of Food Supply Line Break To Somalia As Needs Grow

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent contributions to avoid breaks in its supply line of food assistance to Somalia because of forecasts of crop failure.

The growing need for food assistance follows a warning in June by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Security Analysis Unit Somalia of a crop failure or below average production in July to August in much of southern and central Somalia because of poor rainfall.

WFP Country Director for Somalia Peter Goossens said WFP requires now US$19.5 million or 26,500 metric tons of food by the end of 2007 to feed one million people in Somalia. Without new contributions, WFP will be short of 8,500 tons by October and the accumulated deficit will grow to 70,000 tons worth US$53 million by May 2008.
"We are calling for immediate contributions because the needs of the weakest Somalis - mainly women and children - are growing for reasons entirely beyond their control and it can take up to three or four months to get food assistance into Somalia," Goossens said.

"The people of Somalia have been hit by drought and floods last year and now insecurity and new displacements. They need humanitarian assistance to survive."

The first impact of the forecast crop failure or poor harvest should become evident by October. WFP therefore revised its projections and estimates that it may need 50 percent more food assistance from October until May 2008 than what was planned for all of 2007.

So far this year, more than 924,000 people have received WFP food in Somalia - most of them in southern and central parts of the country.

At the same time as more food assistance is required, WFP's fragile supply lines to Somalia by sea are under threat from a plague of piracy off Somalia. Nearly 80 percent of WFP's assistance to Somalia is shipped by sea but increased pirates attacks this year has cut by half the availability of vessels able to carry food to Somali ports.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran and the Secretary-General of the UN International Maritime Organization Efthimios E. Mitropoulos appealed on 10 July for concerted and coordinated international action to address the threat of piracy and armed robbery against ships off Somalia.

The top 10 donors to WFP's two-year Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation in Somalia ending in July 2008 are: the United States (US$23 million), Canada (US$7.8 million), Netherlands (US$6.8 million), Saudi Arabia (US$3.3 million), Japan US$3.2 million), multilateral (US$2.2 million), Germany (US$2 million), Finland (US$1.9 million), Ireland (US$1.7 million) and Switzerland (US$730,000).

WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: on average, each year, we give food to 90 million poor people to meet their nutritional needs, including 58 million hungry children, in 80 of the world's poorest countries. WFP - We Feed People.

http://www.wfp.org
 
 
 
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