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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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