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However, availability of food aid tends to be lower when global food prices are high, as food previously provided as aid goes to other uses.

The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN's World Food Programme says.

Then came this week's report that the United Nations' world food programme might have to ration food aid.

But it's crazy not to raise taxes for millionaires but to throw kids out of preschool or to cut off the supply of food aid to refugee camps.

The requirement that most food aid must be sent on American ships raises costs, and benefits just a few shippers.

He said he also favoured a "code of conduct" for food export bans so as to ensure humanitarian food aid programmes are not affected.

Food aid is the most direct means for conveying nutritional benefits: the time frame is often limited, sustainability is not an issue.

Such monitoring meant at least some of the young children, the elderly, the disabled, and pregnant and nursing women received food aid.

A shift from traditional food aid to a broader concept of food and nutrition assistance must be part of this New Deal.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the release wouldn't affect the U. S. decision on whether to provide food aid.

The U. S. responded by saying that such a plan violates the nuclear moratorium deal and scuttles the resumption of food aid.

Otherwise, most donors will remain reluctant to give food aid to North Korea. And that would be a tragedy, on a truly massive scale.

President Sarkozy said he would double emergency food aid to roughly $100 million this year for poor countries.

The organisation said it had uncovered possible theft of food aid through its monitoring systems and had launched investigations.

He says handing over food aid without changing Pyongyang's basic food policies would be like "pouring water into a broken jar. "

Aid organizations sent in food aid, but much of it was also bought up by traders and diverted to markets in Nigeria.

To minimize this effect, food aid can be directed to the very poor, who are less likely to use it as an alternative to local supplies.

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, a leaked UN report says.

An air bridge has been set up between Santiago and Concepcion, with 100 tons of food aid due in the next few hours.

One of Africa's biggest food exporters is now one of its main recipients of food aid.

The economic stimulus package would have extended unemployment benefits, increased food aid to the poor and funded job-creation programs.

Analysts say Kim Jong Il's visit or to obtain financial or food aid, either to show his firm hold power.

But the United Nations agency says the flow of food aid is at a twenty-year low.

Eg. Food aid alone is not enough to help these countries.

Envoys from the United States and North Korea are meeting in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal.

Food aid is now generally directed toward poorer countries, but some countries that are not poor receive significant aid.

Jeff Hill directs policy for the Bureau of Food Aid at the United States Agency for International Development.

Another approach to the challenges of food aid would be the completion of international trade negotiations.

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

No wonder China supplies more food aid to North Korea each year than any other nation.

The ICRC's Somalia relief coordinator, Mathias Frese, said the organization will have tripled its food aid to Somalia from 2007 to 2008.

Democrats want to extend unemployment benefits and boost food aid for the poor as part of the stimulus package.

Food aid like this is not distributed at all in the severely damaged capital.

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

The Emerson Humanitarian Trust was set up by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to distribute American food aid.

Over the last nine months, though, the cost to secure food aid has increased fifty-five percent.

The U. N. 's Food Aid Organization has warned that rising temperatures could wreak agricultural havoc.

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The number of foreign personnel working to provide food aid was also allowed to increase from 10 to 60.

The U. N. World Food Program said Canada had extended its naval escorts of food aid shipments for another month.

The mayor of the largest Chilean city near the epicenter of Saturday's quake says food aid is arriving in Concepcion.

The stocks usually have to be disposed of on depressed world markets or given away as food aid.

The amount of food aid on offer is tiny relative to the needs in what the United Nations recently described as the famine-hit North.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of food aid arriving from Western countries and charitable organizations.

A: As a friendly neighbour of the DPRK, China has been providing assistance including food aid to the DPRK within its capacity.

Appointing someone "with knowledge based on science rather than food aid can only be a good thing" .

Catherine Bertini has begun a visit to drought-stricken Ethiopia with a plea to the West to commit more food aid.

A world food program says up to 300, 000 people in North Korea may be in need of immediate food aid following devastating floods.

Despite political differences with Pyongyang, the United States has been the biggest single provider of food aid to North Korea.

A woman pushes a cart with a monthly supply of donated food aid at Coronation Park in Krugersdorp, March 6, 2010.

Some provisions of a food aid deal that was purportedly being discussed in Beijing surfaced in South Korean press reports.

Zimbabwe is a poor country, requiring outside food aid for the majority of its rural population.

It is the first installment of half a million tons of food aid promised by the United States to the impoverished North.

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The expulsion covered only the food aid program, not the private aid agencies themselves, Majarowitz added.

But neither that, nor the likelihood that some food aid would be stolen, are excuses for giving nothing.

Soyabean and wheat prices also moved higher, further threatening to increase the cost of food aid this year.

The United States, in particular, monetises food aid in a bizarre way.

Rice said Zimbabwe, once a food exporter, will apparently be requiring a dramatic increase in food aid from the international community.

South Korea's foreign minister said Thursday his government is also willing to talk with North Korea about food aid.

Rich countries should also continue to replace food aid with development assistance that boosts agricultural productivity.

The main complaint is that food aid creates a dependency culture among the poor.

North Korea, which even in good years cannot produce enough to feed its people, has been scouring the world for food aid.

South Korea says it is willing to send tens of thousands of tons of immediate food aid to impoverished North Korea.

The food aid system also needs a revamp. More aid should be given as cash or purchased locally, rather than shipped from overseas.

Several of the poorest economies fall into this category and are heavily dependent on food aid to meet their needs.

Congressional opposition contributes to the administration's refusal to provide even the most badly needed food aid to the North.

Philip Crowley, US state department spokesman, said Washington had no plans to resume food aid to North Korea.

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Developed countries have focused too much on food aid rather than providing development assistance.

The government here has so far said that it will not resume food aid despite the concerns of humanitarian groups.

Bureaucrats and military officers use their connections and government vehicles to fill market stalls with diverted food aid.

It took Kismayo a few months ago. The port of Marka, which takes in food aid, fell more recently.

RT: Emergency food aid can address some of the immediate impacts on the most vulnerable groups.

Piracy has contributed to a rise in shipping costs and impeded the delivery of food aid shipments.

Last week, four senators wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing skepticism about food aid to the North.

On June 20th Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, gave warning that Australian food aid to North Korea was at risk.

Q: The handover ceremony of Chinese food aid to Somalia was held yesterday in its capital city of Mogadishu.

In this area, which is along the border with Kenya, very little food aid had been received.

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

The North also proposed last week to restart joint tourism projects and on Friday Pyongyang accepted an offer of food aid from Seoul.

Bilateral trade deals, food aid, and special preferences have further distorted trade flows in agriculture.

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

Q: Recently the DPRK requested food aid from governments of several countries. Could you brief us on China's food aid to the DPRK?

'As America increases its food assistance, it's really important that we transform the way that food aid is delivered, ' Mr. Bush said.

North Korea and Haiti are also suffering from heavy soil losses; both countries face famine if they lose international food aid.

in practice , food aid has not been so directed in many cases.

Haiti and North Korea, two countries with severely eroded soils, are chronically dependent on food aid from abroad.

The emergency food aid provided by China to the Horn of Africa has won warm welcome from the local governments and people.

"Within the complex array of food aid efforts, there is scope to improve the effectiveness of existing programs, " noted Lin.

"Within the complex array of food aid efforts, there is scope to improve the effectiveness of existing programs, " noted Lin.

North Korea food aid on the problem, Carter urged the international community to take positive action.

The U. S. government will release $200 million in emergency food aid.

U. S. officials say the pending food aid is unrelated to negotiations on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Similarly, food aid programs help a lot, but one in six Americans living below the poverty line suffers from "low food security. "

Recently, UN officials have said that three million seven hundred thousand Somalis are in need of emergency food aid.

U. S. delegation has departed for North Korea to assess the need for food aid to the impoverished country.

Unfortunately, Henry Kissinger once raised the thought that America might use its food aid as a weapon.

Li says American food aid and farm subsidies discourage farmers in poorer countries from raising their own crops.

Long-term responses to the crisis involve policy reforms by both food aid donors and recipients.

And finally, we propose doing away with export restrictions when they apply to emergency food aid for poor countries.

By promoting self-reliance, we help people move away from dependence on food aid and other forms of assistance.

This food aid alsobecame a political weapon for Barre, whose engineered famines helped solidifyhis power as the distributor of food aid.

U. S officials say the Bush administration is nearing a decision on providing new food aid to North Korea.

The United States is the world's largest food aid donor, contributing about half of all food aid.

North Korea, which has depended on food aid since the 1990s, saw its 2007 harvests devastated by floods.

President Bush has ordered a 200-million dollar increase in U. S. emergency food aid for needy countries worldwide.

Most want to limit foreign aid, to the extent that they are turning back UN food aid across the south.

Imagine the impact on food security and malnutrition. Imagine the impact on food aid.

But he says this kind of food aid less (lacks) enough calories and nutrients to prevent malnutrition.

Food aid that is dependent on nuclear concessions is not fated to go far in Pyongyang during a leadership transition.

Njeri Wamukoya says increasing biofuel development is likely to affect food aid.

Without the food aid they get, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other sources to feed themselves left.

Tzu Chi's Myanmar relief teams, in addition to regular food aid, have undertaken widespread deliveries of seed-grain to local farmers.

The "national army" includes brigands who even this week were stealing food aid.

Agree on a code of conduct to exempt humanitarian food aid from export bans.

The Foreword is by Birhan Woldu, a woman who benefited from food aid during the 1984-85 famine and now directs an NGO in northern Ethiopia.

This funding will keep our existing emergency food aid programs robust.

Another 750, 000 were unable to grow their own crops and were completely dependent on food aid.

It was unintended, but diverted food aid acted as a lubricant to the development of the market.

Since 2003, the U. S. has provided $1. 27 billion in food aid, leading the fight against the No. 1 risk in global health -- hunger.

On most days, refugee huts are vacant as the hunt begins for food aid.

They have taken food aid from the South but threatened it with war, run prison camps and built nuclear weapons.

Emergency aid continues to constitute the largest portion of food aid.

At present, the North receives virtually no food aid apart from an unknown amount from China.

moreover , the biofuel boom may also change policies on food aid.

The United Nations thinks that 8m people need immediate food aid. For them "collapse" is not an abstraction.

The charity approached several stores about giving food aid.

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

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

Pressure is building on the South Korean government to resume food aid.

South Korea suspended its direct food aid to the North after the missile tests.

A typical bag of food aid contains flour, oil, and rice -- basics for cooking.

The Shabab has banned food aid in most of southern Somalia since 2009, branding Western aid agencies anti-Muslim.

For decades, the world's focus has been more on distributing food aid, including excess grains, to poor nations.

And we continue to send food aid to his country year after year. . .

In 2005, drought and nitrogen deficiency in crops left five million Malawians reliant on food aid.

Food aid should be separated from politics.

Mr Kony may be selling the food aid he receives to rearm.

The United Nations thinks that 8m people need immediate food aid.

The inadequate distribution of food aid is also causing tension.

When it comes to food aid, quantity is important but so is quality.

Take Ethiopia, notorious for its recurring famines, with 7m people still on food aid.

Regarding food security, China had, by the end of 2010, provided 4. 3 billion yuan in food aid through bilateral channels.

Experts say changes to the 60-year-old food aid program face opposition in Congress.

America's Agency for International Development (USAID), a huge financer of food aid, is asking for $350m.

Stolen food aid helped prime the pump for market growth.

For instance, she says it aimed to reach 100, 000 people with food aid Monday, but was only able to reach 60, 000.

Food aid - including rice, peas, oil and salt - is starting to find its way to more of the hungry.

But there is some precedent for meaningful, if not optimal, monitoring of food aid.

The same may be said of food aid to the North.

Germany, according to the tables, was the third-largest donor of food aid over the past 18 months.

Most recently, the humanitarian crisis in southern Africa has drawn attention to the use of GM food as food aid in emergency situations.

Four million Kenyans depend on food aid.

I asked one farmer in the highlands of Ethiopia what would happen if the food aid stopped coming.

Food aid is coming into the countries where there is need.

The FAO Subregional Office services 300 million people in East Africa who consume about 20 percent of global food aid in a normal year.

The withdrawal has exposed the government's inability to prevent the theft of food aid or looting by its soldiers.

But with T-cash, they can send out food aid to 300 families with the click of a keystroke.

The United States for example, provides food aid from its surplus crops.

In the last year, India has advanced food-aid to North Korea as well as offered rice to Bangladesh, during their famine.

Those eligible for food aid are then registered and monitored, so that they can begin their long journey back to health.

But what we heard from the government in Eritrea, they say there is no problem when it comes to food aid in Eritrea.

That's why a lot of them come to Mogadishu for food aid and succor.

Millions of people need food aid to survive.

The women are waiting to be assessed by doctors so that they can receive food aid.

we urgently need a food aid, don't we?

And not before time, in the view of experts who see something crazy about the way many food-aid efforts are now conceived and executed.

Yet, after the worst drought in 60 years, more than 10m people in the Horn of Africa need emergency food aid.

More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don't want handouts.

In July, the World Food Programme warned that six million people were in urgent need of food aid, following severe flooding last year.

The UN reckons 3. 2m Somalis now survive on food aid.

Some 2. 6m of the country's 8m people depend on food aid that comes by sea.

Of the 7. 3 million, 5. 4 million suddenly needed extra food aid.

It reduced emergency food aid rations in Rwanda, for example, from 420 grammes to 320g of cereals per person a day.

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Here a young Afghan woman smiles after lifting her veil while waiting to receive food aid. (AFP)

Some 500, 000 people still have no permanent home, 200, 000 have no access to fresh water and 350, 000 are receiving WFP food aid.

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