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Tag Archives: World Food Program
Ethiopia Still Requires Food Aid, But Situation Is Improving
Its amazing what peace can actually do. In Ethiopia, crop production in 2004 was 24 percent higher than in the 2003, and 21 percent higher than the average of the previous five years according to a report by the Food … Continue reading
Locust Swarms Diminished, But Effects Remain for West Africa
2004 saw the worst locust swarms in West Africa in 15 years. Toward the end of the year, the swarms began to become less ever as internationals efforts to control began to have their effect, but in their wake the … Continue reading
Tagged Famine, Locusts, Mauritania, World Food Program
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WFP to Wean China Off Food Aid — Another Lester Brown Prophecy of Doom Bites the Dust
After a five day visit to China, World Food Program executive director James Morris announced that his organization would no longer provide food aid to China. Noting China’s phenomenal economic progress over the past 25 years, Morris said that China … Continue reading
Tagged China, World Food Program
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Food Aid to North Korea Begins to Dry Up — Should the World Give Food to States like North Korea?
worlTwo separate but closely related stories emerged within a few days of each other in January. First, the World Food Program announced that it had received so few donations to feed hungry people in North Korea that it would have … Continue reading
World Food Program: 40 Million Africans Still on Brink of Starvation
World Food Program Executive Director James Morris appeared before the United Nations Security Council in early April urging the world not to forget the 40 million Africans who are still in danger of starvation. Morris told the Security Council, Commitments … Continue reading
Tagged Iraq, World Food Program
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Food Shortages Abate — Except In Zimbabwe
The World Food Program reports that food shortages are coming to an end in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, but such problems continue to worsen in Zimbabwe. James Morris, head of the World Food Program, told The New York Times, … Continue reading
Tagged Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, World Food Program, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Did Aid Agencies Exaggerate African Famine Threat?
For the past year the United Nations’ World Food Program has been warning of several pending famines in southern Africa, but a report by The Times UK suggests that aid agencies may have exaggerated the extent of hunger in countries … Continue reading
Tagged World Food Program, Zambia
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More Warnings about Hunger in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Aid agencies and Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi warned this week that if international aid does not arrive soon, the numbers of people who could die in Ethiopia in 2003 will be even more than died in the 1984 famine … Continue reading
Tagged Eritrea, Ethiopia, World Food Program
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Forty Million in Danger of Starvation
The United Nations recently revised its estimate of the number of people facing food insecurity to 40 million as problems in Africa continue to mount. In the Horn of Africa alone, 14 million people face starvation unless the World Food … Continue reading
Cost of Johannesburg Summit
In an op-ed for Fox News, former United Nations Ambassador Kenneth Adelman highlights the bizarre way that the United Nations goes about solving poverty. At the same time that the World Food Program and other agencies are having difficulties obtaining … Continue reading