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Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
ADDIS ABABA (WFP) — Every day dozens of World Food Program (WFP) chartered vessels ply the oceans of the world en route to distant ports. Laden with food the vessels steer their course towards the continents of Asia, South America and Africa where the need is often greatest. The beautiful highlands of Ethiopia have long [...] Related posts: ECA workshop discusses ‘dry ports’ for Ethiopia...
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Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | yesterday
The region of Africa from Sudan through Kenya and Ethiopia to Somalia is still facing one of the worst droughts and food shortages that they have faced in years. According to the World Food Program there are approximately twenty million people who are still in need of food aid. However some would argue that these numbers may be inflated to help raise funds for relief agencies and non-governmental organizations....
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even as millions of people starve worldover, residents in United States are wasting food like never before.
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun? Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in western Sudan. Tribes that lived side by side for decades say they've been pushed to warfare by competition for disappearing water and pasture. The government is accused...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam. Bob Dylan is singing Christmas songs. (..) Bob Dylan is spreading his goodwill around the world. All royalties from this album are being donated to three charities -- Feeding America, Crisis UK, and World Food Programme -- dedicated to feeding the hungry in the United States, the United Kingdom and the developing world.
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year. (..) About 1 billion people worldwide don't have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program....
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nine-year-old Lide Ramirez and her little brother sat on an 18-pound bag of rice on a recent sunny morning, thinking that for the first time in months they would eat dinner. (..) Neither the World Food Program nor the Guatemalan government was prepared for the extent of the crisis. They both ran out of food to distribute. Guatemala's president declared a ``state of calamity'' in September and asked...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saudi Public Assistance for Pakistan Earthquake Victims (SPAPEV) is constructing 4,000 pre-fabricated houses, 7-Basic Health Units, and five higher secondary schools in quake-hit areas of Pakistan. (..) Besides this, a similar amount was provided to World Food Programme (WFP) for the purchase of wheat bags for distribution among affectees of October 8, 2005 Earthquake.
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | yesterday
WFP has three ideas for anyone looking for original gifts for loved ones this holiday season. Each one will help to feed the world’s hungry – something that the receiver of the gift is sure to appreciate.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fighters loyal to Hisbul Islam party arrange their weapons on a pick-up truck in Elma, a village on the outskirts of Mogadishu, November 23, 2009. Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on Monday they had relocated 12 expatriate aid workers following a deterioration in the security situation. REUTERS/Omar Faruk Somali Insurgents Order Halt to Imported Food Aid -- Voice of America Islamist...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food Livescience While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year. [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Webcam of Shame (or "I Am My Brother's Keeper-Cam" or "The Eyes Of God-Cam") would bring the terrible reality of 21st century poverty and disease right into our homes and workplaces.
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
It's said that bad things come in three's, so pessimists at least won't be surprised to hear that after the global financial and economic crises, the next storm on the horizon is the global food crisis. (..) "The food crisis is not over," said the UN World Food Programme's executive director, Josette Sheeran. "We have an anomaly happening where on global, big markets, the prices are...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
This year the number of poor people around the world struggling to get enough food for survival for themselves and their families has risen to a little more than a billion – the highest level in 30 years. (..) “The numbers have gone in reverse,” said Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the United Nation’s World Food Program. Yet she is optimistic.
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The government of Brazil has donated Sh1.9 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance to Faza Island fire victims. (..) WFP's Madalena Mendes-Leal said that the donation had been used to buy 71 metric tons of cereals for those who had lost their homes.
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