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Dieng also said the WFP is monitoring reports filtering out of Eritrea suggesting food shortages there as well.

The WFP director said he sought to make this point in a meeting Thursday, with Burma's prime minister.

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"This comes at a time of great vulnerability for the hungry, " the WFP said in a statement.

In a telephone interview from Jerusalem, WFP Spokesman, Robin Lodge, tells VOA, the so-called humanitarian recess is only a first step.

Now, convoys are going in and the WFP has begun to move into Gedo, near the Kenyan border, where malnutrition rates exceed 50%.

A second tier, where between a fifth and a third lack adequate food, includes much of West Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Bolivia.

WFP is facing the challenge of the "fusing of the fuel and food markets, " she said.

The WFP's Dieng estimates the number of Eritrean refugees at camps in northern Ethiopia at a few thousand.

The WFP has had to get used to fierce criticism, particularly of its operations in Africa.

The WFP employs large numbers of press officers in its headquarters in Rome and elsewhere to jump to its defence.

The WFP said the most critical months for food in the North will be May, June and July.

WFP spokeswoman, Emilia Casella, says hundreds of thousands of flood victims living in remote, isolated villages remain cut off from aid.

"The integrity of our organisation is paramount, " insists Josette Sheeran, a former State Department official now heading the outfit.

Morris. He asked China to help the WFP in sending food aid to China's impoverished communist neighbor, North Korea.

In those cases, insists Josette Sheeran, head of the WFP, food aid is the only option.

WFP spokesman Paul Risley says it is unfortunate that U. S. Navy helicopters will not be available to bring aid across the Irrawaddy Delta.

According to the WFP, for instance, the number of malnourished people in the south has now crept up to 47% of the population.

It is the responsibility of the FAO and WFP mission members to prepare the CFSAM report which must be viewed as a UN document.

And because the problems in many places are not like those of a traditional famine, the WFP should be allowed to broaden what it does.

One concrete step would be for the G20 to help farmers benefit from tenders from humanitarian purchasers such as the WFP.

WFP is preparing a six-month emergency operation to assist as many as 2 million people affected by the quake for an initial six months.

The WFP official says $200 million in donations has been received since the onset of the current drought.

WFP officials said three Pakistanis and one Iraqi national are among the dead.

Risley adds, the U. S. shipment that arrived Sunday was contingent on the new WFP deal.

The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U. N.

WFP also supports school meal programmes and targets food assistance at vulnerable groups of people across the country.

But the WFP's Susannah Nicoll says the short-term solution would be a long-term mistake.

With murky data, and diplomats and foreign-aid staff restricted in where they may travel, not everyone agrees with the WFP's assessment.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and aid groups CARE and Caritas have distributed food to thousands of homeless.

Paul Risley, spokesman for the WFP's Asia operations, says the deal is great news for North Korea's malnourished population.

Expected time of the incident scene, 1100-1500 people, people waiting for the WFP distributed food stamps.

But even if the WFP has been misled into giving an inflated estimate of the dangers, "food aid may nonetheless be warranted. "

In recent weeks the WFP has quietly started reducing rations and closing down distribution operations to conserve cash.

And although China is secretive about its food aid to North Korea, WFP officials believe shipments have fallen sharply this year.

This is an expansion of a pilot scheme WFP started in the Diyala and Baghdad governorates earlier this year.

Quite apart from the allegations over its role in Somalia, the WFP is failing to meet its target for donations this year.

It is not the first time WFP has used computer technology to raise awareness of its work.

The WFP initially said its warehouses in Port-au-Prince been looted, but this was later denied.

Aguilera met with WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran while in Haiti to discuss the hunger response after the earthquake.

WFP spokesperson in Mogadishu Susannah Nicoll says rebuilding the aid infrastructure is excruciatingly time consuming.

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said that army chiefs in Mandalay briefly restricted its much-needed food supplies (see article).

"Since NATO has been been helping us out, not a single ship has been hijacked" said Greg Barrow, the global media coordinator at WFP.

Still, the WFP reckons it can pull back in a couple of years if the LRA is disbanded.

Prices have only risen further since WFP issued that appeal, so it remains urgent that governments step up.

Mr. Banbury says the WFP will be working with the governments of Indonesia and Sri Lanka to assess long-term needs.

This is part of a five-year-old partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN's agency that fights hunger.

She wants to expand its role in surveillance, stockpiling and risk-insurance.

An internal UN report accuses the WFP of abjectly failing to get food to starving Somalis.

It costs WFP just 20 Euro cents to provide a nutritious meal to a child at school.

The WFP can continue to support around 1. 4m children and pregnant women with fortified foods until the end of June.

When you click on the right answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to the WFP by the site's advertisers.

In a recent attack the janjaweed pillaged four WFP stores, taking about 1, 000 tonnes of food destined for refugees.

The World Food Program (WFP) is the largest international food aid organization in the world.

THE UN's World Food Programme (WFP) feeds 90m people in the poor world, a fraction of the 800m it reckons still go hungry.

In 2009, the wfp began a pilot program to deliver vouchers for food aid via cell phone to refugees living in Damascus.

In three provinces almost a third of people are acutely malnourished, says the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).

These new partnerships are aimed at offering services or goods for WFP.

Last month the World Food Programme(WFP) called for urgent help to avert a "serious tragedy" .

WFP Spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the air service flies about 4, 000 humanitarian aid workers every month to 10 destinations in Chad .

In some countries, children who have benefited from the WFP school feeding programme will also walk in solidarity.

The WFP has closed offices in six locations in southern Somalia, it said.

Lodge says the WFP has enough food stocks in Gaza City to last several weeks.

The World Food Programme (WFP), a UN agency, has just issued an urgent appeal for $500m, to cover higher food costs.

But foot-and-mouth disease has decimated cattle stocks over the past year, according to the WFP.

About half of the donations the WFP receives are now made in cash, the rest in commodities.

Schools will run out of food by May 1, depriving about 450, 000 children of meals, the WFP estimates.

Due says the main problem is that the WFP's emergency operation in North Korea does not have enough money.

Other incentives are being used, such as supplying extra cooking oil and wheat to female students through WFP's school feeding program.

A shortage in the region's markets has forced the WFP to buy most of its food from distant South Africa.

U. S. and WFP officials say they are searching for ways to cut transportation and other non-food costs.

TNT offers support to the World Food Program (WFP) in three ways.

The World Food Programme (WFP) provides the village with 40% of its food, in monthly handouts.

Casella says the WFP has sent 11 convoys into the area since September and this has kept about 230, 000 people alive during this period.

The WFP's operation there is run from Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya.

The WFP says North Korea was able to meet about 80 percent of its basic survival food requirements, last year.

"Food is one of the most important needs, " said Moumini Ouedraogo of the WFP.

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says the present drought is the worst there since 1984.

WFP and other aid agencies are using the food distribution center for the loss of their homes in the conflict to provide food for people.

U. S. officials have said they will scrutinize the WFP's report.

In addition, she says WFP is facing a shortfall of $90 million on its $150 million appeal.

While this is progress, WFP says it still falls short of the six million people in need of emergency aid.

That is not just WFP. But, that is the whole humanitarian community.

In Swaziland, for example, the WFP provided Peace Corps volunteers with training on sustainable gardening and organic farming techniques.

CAP and the World Food Program (WFP) recently reached an accord to mobilize $1 million to establish 136 cereal banks in 48 communes.

And the WFP says hunger is on the rise in the countries it watches.

WFP says it needs $126, 000, 000 to stretch its humanitarian operation in Kenya until July.

Sheeran said purchasing problems affect WFP's ability to get food to areas where it is needed, such as Sudan.

WFP Spokeswoman Emilia Casella says 125, 000 people in Ouagadougou will receive aid.

WFP says the scheme works well in a country such as Iraq where food is available in the markets, but people cannot afford to buy it.

Most encouraging are some proposed changes at the WFP.

Sudan alone accounted for $635m of WFP's $2. 2 billion spent in sub-Saharan Africa in 2008.

The WFP says that 5, 000-10, 000 people could die of starvation in southern Somalia in August.

China contributed more than $20 million to the WFP last year, and said it will consider increasing support in the future.

Yet household surveys by the WFP last year found no Chinese grain.

Last year, the WFP received donations of $2. 7bn, up from $1. 7bn in 1998.

WFP recorded dire scenes as they traveled around North Korea last month delivering aid

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