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UN Predicts Rise in Global Cereal Production but Warns Prices Will Remain High
UNICEF Warns 90,000 Somali Children Could Die Without Increased Support
In previous issues:
30/11/2007
HIV/AIDS Threatening Livestock Production, UN Agriculture Agency Warns
9/11/2007
Billions of Rice Grains Donated to World Food Programme Thanks to Internet Game
27/10/2007
UN Independent Rights Expert Calls For Five-Year Freeze On Biofuel Production
20/10/2007
Food Stocks For Uganda's Flood Victims Dangerously Low
28/9/2007
UN Needs Urgent Funds to Feed 1.5 Million Flood Victims in Africa
French Offer to Protect Food Ships from Pirates off Somalia
21/9/2007
UN Atomic Agency Can Help Eliminate World Hunger, Agriculture Chief Says
UN Purchases Local Produce To Feed Hungry Afghans And Boost Farming
8/9/2007
Racing Against Clock, UN Seeks $81 Million to Feed Hundreds of Thousands in Chad
Scrum Down: World Rugby Cup Tackles Global Hunger For UN
27/7/2007
UN Humanitarian Chief Spotlights Impact Of Drought On Southern Africa
20/7/2007
Decline in 2007 Crop Yield Could Lead To Food Shortages in 28 Countries
29/6/2007
Combating Child Malnutrition: IAEA Nobel Peace Fund Schools for Nutrition
15/6/2007
Food Agency Airlifts Supplies To Sudanese in Central African Republic
Lesotho: More Than 400,000 Face Food Shortages Following Drought
8/6/2007
Commission Contributes Extra €25 M To Fight Malnutrition in The Sahel and Calls for Proactive Plans to Prevent Food Crises.
UN Agencies Say New Ready Foods Help Tackle Malnutrition
Over One Third Of Zimbabweans Face Food Shortages
1/6/2007
UN, Partners Explore Ways That Food Relief Can Boost Development
25/5/2007
Swaziland: 400,000 Need Aid After Worst Maize Harvest Ever
18/5/2007
‘Food Force’ Video Game Sweeps Northern Europe
Some Countries Will Struggle This Year Despite Record Cereal Crop
27/4/2007
Agriculture Key Player to Stop Degradation of Vital Ecosystems, Say FAO
15/4/2007
Killer Disease of Wheat Spreads from East Africa to Yemen
2/3/2007
Food Aid: Commission Allocates €135 million to Alleviate World Hunger
19/1/2007
Food Aid Cut-Off Looms For 700,000 Due to Funding Shortfall
12/1/2007
WFP to Feed Nearly 2 Million People In Southern Sudan In 2007
1/12/2006
UN In Race Against Time to Provide Food for 600,000 Afghans Before Winter
10/11/2006
England cricketers go out to bat for UN against world hunger
Faced with zero response, UNICEF renews appeal for 2.5 million drought-hit Afghans
3/11/2006
Afghanistan: Commission Provides €2.5 million in Humanitarian Aid for Drought Victims
13/10/2006
Chechens and Azeris faced food aid cutoff
Queen Sofia awarded Ceres Medal
29/9/2006
WPF: fears of funding crisis in DRC
8/9/2006
UN Food Agency Calls for Renewed Effort to Fight Hunger
21/7/2006
China is World’s Third Largest Food Aid Donor
Commission Allocates €10 million for Niger's children
14/7/2006
UN food agency launches campaign to bolster peace in Philippine island of Mindanao
30/6/2006
Eradicating hunger: Commission steps up its efforts in food aid
19/5/2006
Walk The World
UN Food Agency Appeals Again For Funds For The Sahel
12/5/2006
From fake cows to thousands of tramping feet, UN food agency gets its message out
5/5/2006
Major Shortfall in UN's Sahel Hunger Appeal
7/4/2006
UN Appeals For $426 Million To Aid Drought Victims In Horn Of Africa
24/3/2006
Almost 2 Million Ethiopians Need Assistance
New Violence on Chad Border Threatens Relief Efforts
17/3/2006
Funding Shortfall Forces WFP To Cut Refugees Rations
24/2/2006
UN Envoy Urges Global Community to Explore Root Causes of Hunger
10/2/2006
Commission Provides a Further €5 Million to Drought Victims in the Horn of Africa
From Malawi Better News
UNICEF Seeks Aid as Millions Suffer in Drought-Hit Horn of Africa
World Food Programme Issues Further Warnings about Kenyan Drought
3/2/2006
Expected crops in Southern Africa welcome but not sufficient to stem crisis – UN envoy
27/1/2006
World Food Programme Faces Funding Shortage in Chechnya and Ingushetia
Stocks Run Low as Drought Leaves Millions More Kenyans in Need of Aid
13/1/2006
WFP Warns of Catastrophe in Horn of Africa
6/1/2006
After ‘year of disaster,’ donors must prepare for 2006: UN food aid official
UN food aid agency lauds record 2005 European contributions to fight hunger
9/12/2005
UN
Agency Heads Call On World Trade Negotiators To Protect In-Kind Food
Aid
18/11/2005
Agricultural
Losses From Quake Exceed $440 Million
11/11/2005
Further
EU assistance to help tackle food crisis in Malawi
4/11/2005
Massive
Shortfall In Southern Africa Famine Relief Funds
21/10/2005
Azerbaijani
Food Aid Programme Faces Shut Down
Chad's
'Forgotten' Refugees
UNICEF
Increases its Malawi Appeal Five-fold as Food Crisis Worsens
14/10/2005
World
Food Day To Be Marked Around The World
Hunger
is the Real Mass Killer, Says WFP Head
Second
Pirate Attack On UN Food Aid Ship In Somalia
Time
Running Out To Save Southern Africa From Famines
7/10/2005
Thousands
Of Kenyan Children Face Drought-Induced Hunger
30/9/2005
In
Niger, WPF Starts Second Round Of Food Distribution
23/9/2005
UN
Food Agency Appeals For $30 Million To Feed Angolan Children
Malawi
Faces Famine As Agency Appeals Go Unheeded
9/9/2005
Food
Shortages Threaten In Southern Africa As Funding Shortfalls Arise
26/8/2005
UN
Raises Alarm Over The Prospect Of Famine In Malawi
22/7/2005
Niger:
Famine Worsens But Funds Now Beginning To Flow In.
15/7/2005
WFP
Appeals For $3 Million To Feed Refugees From Togo’s Violence
Agency
Triples Estimate Of Niger Food Emergency
8/7/2005
Sahel
food crisis: Commission earmarks €6.6 million in humanitarian
aid for Niger and Mali
24/6/2005
Starvation
Looms In Mali And Niger
27/5/2005
Climate
Change Will Threaten Crops, UN Agency Says
Conflicts
Now Leading Cause Of World Hunger
20/5/2005
Six
Million West Africans Face Famine Because Of Locusts And Drought
13/5/2005
New
Darfur Airlift Established
29/5/2005
2
Million Kenyans At Risk Of Starvation
Catherine
Bertini Steps Down
15/4/2005
Nearly
Two Dozen African Countries Need Food Aid Says FAO
WFP
Expands Emergency Food Operation In Drought-Stricken Eritrea As
Malnutrition Rates Rise In Ethiopia
1/4/2005
Attacks
On Trucks Undermine WFP's Ability To Deliver In Darfur
18/3/2005
UN Draws Attention To Forgotten Burundi's Plight
Darfur's Agony Continues
And So Does That Of The DRC
25/2/2005
Dire
Warnings Over Ability To Sustain African Feeding Commitments
World
Must Act Now On Darfur, Says UN Relief Head
4/2/2005
African
States Must Give High Priority To Agricultural Research To Cut
Hunger
14/1/2005
WFP
Looks For Help To Europe's New Members
17/12/2004
Buy
This Coin And Provide Lunch For Hungry Children
5/11/2004
More
Irrigation Needed In Africa Says UN Food Agency
UN
Food Agency Warn That More Funds Will Be Required In Aftermath Of
Locust Attacks
15/10/2004
Maintaining
Biodiversity Is Key To Ending World Hunger
24/9/2004
World
Cereal Production Up But Locusts Pose Threat In Africa
10/9/2004
UN Food Aid Convoy Crosses The Sahara To Chad
Hungry Liberians Benefit From European Aid
6/8/2004
Locust
Threat To Africa Grows More Menacing
Possibility
Of Improvement In Darfur, Though Funds Are still Short
UN
Agencies Appeal For Funds To Aid Kenya
16/7/2004
Hunger Drives Darfur's Locals To Take Food Aid Meant For Displaced Sudanese
18/6/2004
Annan
Urges Tougher Action Against Creeping Desertification
11/6/2004
Food
Airlift Gets Under Way To Troubled Darfur
4/6/2004
Drought-Hit
Northern Somalia Faces Looming Disaster, UN Warns
14/5/2004
Escalating
Food Crisis In Uganda
Future
Food Aid To Zimbabwe Jeopardized By Cancellation Of Food Assessment
Mission
7/5/2004
Angolans
Return Home To Peace – And Hunger
2/42004
Progress
On Reducing Hunger Has Stopped, Says UN Expert
UN
Emergency Food Aid Suspended In Gaza
5/3/2004
Famine And Disease Crippling Lesotho Say UN Humanitarian Chiefs
20/2/2004
Humanitarian
Chaos Continues On Sudan's Border
13/2/2004
Despite
UN Efforts Spectre Of Famine Looms Over Korea
7/2/2004
Without
New Aid, UN Food Agency Will Have To Cut Rations To Millions In
DPR Of Korea
30/1/2004
Private
Sector Aid Enlisted To Fight Global Hunger
UN
Agencies Appeal As Crisis Grows In Chad
16/1/2004
Ethiopia:
Better Harvest But Seven Million Will Still Require Feeding In
2004 Say UN
18/12/2003
Europe
Works With UN To Break Cycle Of Poverty And Insecurity In Afghanistan
5/12/2003
FAO
Director-General Reports Slow Progress In Banishing Hunger
Survey
Shows Steep Decline In Afghan Livestock
Spaniards
Raise Three Quarters Of A Million Euros For Food Projects
FAO
Highlight Growth In Illegal Fishing
Pope
Backs Hunger Campaign
21/11/2003
Europeans
Join UN To Sponsor Nutrition Workshop For West Africa
31/10/2003
UN
Declares 2004 The International Year Of Rice
17/10/2003
On
World Food Day, UN Says True International Alliance Needed To Reduce
Hunger
Commission grants assistance
to countries facing food deficit problems
12/9/2003
DR
Of Congo: Thousands Receive Food Aid from German NGO
15/8/2003
Democratic
Republic of Congo: Commission adopts EUR 4 million in humanitarian
aid
8/8/2003
New
Food Crisis In Sudan
1//2003
UN
Appeals For $530 Million For Southern Africa
4/7/2003
UN
Agency Appeals For $308 Million For Food Aid In Southern Africa
WPF
Sending 1,000 Tons Of Food To Iraq Every Hour
27/6/2003
UN
Agencies Forecast 5.5 Million People In Zimbabwe Need Food Aid
6/6/2003
UN
Agency’s Food Convoys Arrive In Namibia To Aid Flood Victims
30/5/2003
12.5
Million Ethiopians Face Starvation As Funding Falls Short
16/5/2003
UNICEF
Survey Finds Nutrition And Health Falling Among Iraqi Children
11/4/2003
Africa-Irak,
A Double Standard?
Liberia:
UN Agencies Struggling to Assist Refugees
3/4/2003
Iraq:
Scale Of Humanitarian Need Becomes Clearer
World Leaders Condemned On
Hunger By UN Expert
7/3/2003
Growth
in food production will be higher than population growth, but World
Food Summit target will be missed
28/2/2003
Zambia's
Food And HIV Crisis Persist Despite Un Support
World
Is Losing Battle Against Hunger
21/2/2003
Ethiopia:
2 Million People On The Brink Of Starvation.
14/2/2003
UN
Food Agency Denies Bananas Are on the Verge of Extinction
31/1/2003
Spectre
Of Famine Still Looms For Fragile Malawi
10/1/2003
Emergency
humanitarian food aid for North Korean children
20/12/2002
Fishing
Gear Shipped To War-Torn Southern Sudan
6/12/2002
Ceasefire
Pact Between Burundi Government And Rebels
Mass
Starvation In Africa Looms, But Political Will Can Stop It
UN
Food Agency Seeks Funds To Feed Over 6 Million Hungry People In
DPR Korea
22/11/2002
New
Global Campaign To Tackle Hunger In Africa
Commission's
response to the emerging humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa
Iraq's
Humanitarian Situation Improving But Still Dire
8/11/2002
Global
Partnership To Promote Genetic Improvements To Cassava
1/11/2002
Dpr
Of Korea Still Needs Outside Food Aid To Survive
UN
Launches Aid Appeal To Stem Starvation Facing Millions In Horn Of
Africa
25/10/2002
Hunger "Hot Spots" In
Urban India
UN Expert Urges Speedy
Action To Fight Global Hunger
18/10/2002
Dwindling
Water Supplies Threaten Food Production
11/10/2002
Ethiopia:
Urgent Appeals For Food Aid
Commission provides
EUR 500,000 for vulnerable population groups in Uganda
4/10/2002
Drought
Hits Eritrea's Harvest: Humanitarian Situation Worsening
Funding
Shortfall Forces UN Agency To Cut Off Food Aid To Millions In Dpr
Of Korea
27/9/2002
Un
Emphasises Danger From Growing Africa Food Crisis
Two Million At Risk In Afghanistan
This Winter, Un Warns
20/9/2002
Uganda:
Deadly Ambush Against WFP Food Convoy
Southern Africa's Food
Crisis 'Devastating Real' Says UN
30/8/2002
Looming
Food Shortages Face Western Sahara Refugees
Annan
Urges Mugabe To Change Direction Of Land Reform
WHO Chief
Calls For Prompt Response To Food Crisis In Southern Africa
1/5/2002
FAO
Director-General Europe Says Europe Can Do More and Better
10
Million People Threatened By Famine In Southern Africa Agencies
Say
24/5/2002
WFP
Still Facing Acute Funding Shortages
Hunger
is Concrete Manifestation of Disparities, Says UN Agency Head
Emergency
Aid Call On Behalf Of One Million Palestinians
17/5/2002
Afghanistan
Threatened by Locust Plague
WFP
Seeks Funds to Aid Victims of Drought and Torrential Rain in Mauritania
12/4/2002
Fish
Piracy Worries FAO
1.7
Million at Risk as Sudan Denies Access to Humanitarian Flights
5/4/2002
Global
Warming? Put the Carbon Back in the Ground, Say FAO
29/3/2002
Food
Crisis Looming in Southern Africa, Warn WFP
22/3/2002
Three
Agencies Press the Food Case at Monterrey
Vitamin
C to the Rescue As Scurvy Breaks Out in the Mountains
Hungry
Guatemala is Next on WFP's List
15/3/2002
WFP's
Focus on Women is Bertini's Impressive Legacy
Better
Water Management Needed to Avoid Food Insecurity in the Near East
Warn FAO
Another
Year of Drought Expected in Afghanistan
8/3/2002
WFP
Appeals for $56 Million to Sustain Peace in West Africa
UN
Food Agency Announces Innovative Afghan Rehabilitation Programme
1/3/2002
Food
Shortages Loom in Southern Africa
22/2/2002
Bertini's
Successor at World Food Programme Named
WFP Faces Shortfall in Relief
Funding as Mozambique Prepares for Possible Third Year of Floods
15/2/2002
In
Sudan the Bombing of Humanitarian Relief Continues
1/2/2002
Agriculture
Important to Achieving Sustainable Development, say FAO
25/1/2002
Long
Term Development Projects Need Aid, Says WFP Director
The
UN Has a New Concern: How To Stop The World Becoming Fat
11/1/2002
Relief
at Last for Herat
Home
Coming:A Promise of Return to Normality
4/1/2002
Record
Food Flows Pour Into Afghanistan
Spectre
of Famine Looms Over Somalia
21/12/2002
Food
Goes By Rail in Katanga
Food
Supplies Better This Year But 15 Countries Still Face Emergencies,
say FAO
23/11/2001
Parliaments
Told To Raise the Profile of the World's Hungry
As
WFP Achieves Monthly Target, Food Aid Gets Through
Zambia
Goes Hungry As Floods and Droughts Bite
16/11/2001
'Complex
Emergency' in Zimbabwe.
9/11/2001
Agencies
Racing To Get Food In As First Snows Begin to Fall
Climate
Change Threat to Crop Yields
2/11/2001
Afghans
Face 'Mass Starvation' As Drought Grip Tightens
Hunger Summit Postponed
to June 2002
UN Agencies
Face Continuing Difficulties Providing Food and Shelter
26/10/2001
George
McGovern to be WFP's First Hunger Ambassador
19/10/2001
World
Food Day Coincides With Call to Postpone Hunger Summit
Doubt Over World Hunger Targets
As Latest Statistics Show Slowdown
Famine Rears for Afghanistan's
Neighbour
12/10/2001
Afghan
Donor Appeal is Over-subscribed, But Delivery is the Problem.
WFP
Food Relief Operations Bombed in Sudan
5/10/2001
Children
to Learn How to Fight Hunger
28/9/2001
Save
World Fishing, Pleads UN Agency
By Electronics if Necessary
But The UN's Voice Must Be Heard
Berlin to Host Afghan Food
Summit
21/9/2001
Going
Hungry is a Violation of Human Rights says UN Agency Head
14/9/2001
Food
Supplies Running Out for 1.5 Million in Africa
7/9/2001
Rains
in Sudan Only Add to the Misery
Food Shortages May Occur
in Central America, Warns UN Agency
European Commission
Sets Out Food Security Policies in Advance of Upcoming Food Summit
3/8/2001
North
Korea On The Brink of Famine
As African Agriculture
Reels Before Conflict and Adverse Climatic Events, 17 Countries
Face Food Emergencies
The
European Union Renews Agreement to Buy West African Fish
27/7/2001
Crops
and Livestock Hard Hit by Drought in Pakistan
20/7/2001
New
Action Aid Campaign Targets GM Coffee
13/7/2001
UN
Concerns Over New Military Offensive in Southern Sudan
6/7/2001
World
Agricultural Outlook Improves
UN Call for Better
Food Safety and Quality Standards
22/6/2001
Angolan
Relief Flights Suspended After Second Missile Attack
15/6/2001
World
Food Programme Plane Hit By Anti-Aircraft Missile in Angola
8/6/2001
Problems
of Urban Poor Highlighted in New UN Reports
1/6/2001
WFP
to Close Kabul Bakeries
Eritrea: A
Hungry and Uncertain Homecoming Awaits Returning Refugees
25/5/2001
Agricultural
Investment Key to Curbing World Hunger says UN Agency Head
18/5/2001
Sudan
Wheat Crop Forecast to Fall by 30 per cent
11/5/2001
Crisis
In Katanga
27/2001
UN
Afghan Appeal Revised Upwards as Population Waits for New Fighting
Empty Fields
20/4/2001
FAO
Point To Fundamental Flaws in the Way Nations are Functioning
13/4/2001
Africa
Faces Famine
New African Rice
Can Boost Farmers' Yields Up To 50%
Global
Cereal Production Predicted to Fall Below Consumption for Second
Successive Year
6/4/2001
Floods
Necessitate Emergency Feeding Programme in Malawi
30/3/2001
UN
Humanitarian Rapid Response Base Opens At Brindisi
Global Meeting
Will Assess Progress Towards World Food Summit Goals
Resources
Can End Food Insecurity in Horn of Africa, say FAO
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