ONE (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Wednesday wrapped up the World Summit on Food Security in Rome. Just to recap in case you missed the last post, the Summit was intended to bring together heads of state and food security institutions, like the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP), to further the global agenda on [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Doubletree Hotels and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, have teamed up to motivate students to help fight hunger this holiday season through a unique relationship that will collect food for local food banks in the United States and raise funds for WFP's hunger relief operations abroad. The “Community Drive...
Department of Agriculture (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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As temperatures rise, drought, crop failure and deforestation have combined to create a crisis of malnutrition. Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza -- outsiders.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Police in Pakistan arrested the mastermind of the suicide attacks in the capital, the police chief said on Friday. Jamshed Alias Tahir had been involved in various terror activities, including the suicide bombing at the World Food Program office in Islamabad in October, the police chief Kalim Imam said. Tahir was arrested on a tip from Margalla hills in Islamabad, Imam told a news conference. The bearded...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Food or education? Public spending choices are never easy. But in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, the choices are particularly stark. The government has made "food security" - which means making sure people have enough to eat - the top priority for government spending.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Islamabad Police Friday announced the capture of a terrorist mastermind who has confessed to his role in recent suicide attacks in the capital city, including suicide hit at WFP office, besides involvement in terrorist activities in Swat. (..) These four suicide hits, confessed by the terrorist Jamshed, include suicide hit on United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) office in which five UN workers...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
World Food Programme (WFP) country director Ricaldo Pablo has advised farmers to adopt conservation farming to improve production in view of the reduced inputs in the 2009/2010 farming season. (..) “Fertiliser per se cannot change the way we produce or increase average productivity. The Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP) at the moment is probably taking a very large amount of the budget of the...
NHatky (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ISLAMABAD : The mastermind of suicide attacks on World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices has been arrested on Friday, Aaj News reported. In a media briefing, Federal Police IG said Jamsheed alias Tahir has belonged to Mulla Rahim group and Ghazi force of Orakzai Agency and also fought in Swat. A suicide jacked recovered from [...]
Beth's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
TweetsGiving 2009 If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. Twitter for...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON / KALOTUM Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 When one enters the northern Kenyan village of Kalotum, the overwhelming impression is one of things missing. There are a dozen conical thatched huts and a clutch of spindly thorn trees. But there are no crops, animals or water. A quick look around reveals no men, either. "They all left," says villager Mary Atabo. She says just three...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Almost 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth, according to a new U.N. report. But surprisingly, in the Middle East, wealthier countries have more of a problem than some poorer nations. The Occupied Palestinian Territories, for example, have a stunting prevalence of 10 percent -- the lowest in the Middle East -- according to the study from UNICEF,...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It is in southern Bangladesh, one of the regions of the world considered most vulnerable to climate change. I found that the people living there have a stark choice in front of them. Either they begin adapting to their conditions and look for alternative ways to earn money and get food, or they pack their bags (unless they want to starve).
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Musician Bob Dylan has appeared in his first music video for 12 years. The 68-year-old star is in seasonal spirit in the video for Must Be Santa, singing, dancing and wearing festive attire at a Christmas house party. (..) The World Food Programme and Crisis At Christmas are the beneficiaries of his international royalties, while Feeding America is the designated charity in the US.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
According to the World Food Programme, around twenty million people in the Horn of Africa need food aid. Indeed, the numbers are so great it is hard to take anything tangible and human from the statistics.
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