European Commission
European Parliament
European Goverments
NGOs
UN and Agencies
Arms control
Climate
Debt relief and development
Drug and terrorism
Education
Energy and environment
Famine and malnutrition
Health/AIDS
Human rights
Balkans
Central and Eastern Europe
Other European Institutions
World Bank/ IMF 
Peacekeeping
Refugees and asylum
Trade and globalisation
Famine and Malnutrition
Background information
Europaworld is non profit making and relies on contributions. If you find this service useful, please drop a coin or two in the box
 
Google
 
Web www.europaworld.org
Latest articles:
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
UN Food Agency Renews Call For $95 Million To Sustain Feeding Programmes In Great Lakes Region

23/3/2001
Commission Makes Available EUR 1 Million for Emergency Aid to Mongolia
16/3/2001
Excessive Hunting Threatens Food Security of Forest Communities
Ugandan WFP Programme Faces Demand Increase of 50 Per Cent
9/3/2001
33 Countries Face Food Emergency According to Latest UN Report
2/3/2001
"Impending Catastrophe"
23/2/2001
WFP launches New Relief Strategy for Angola
16/2/2001
Acute Hunger Set To Hit Sudan As War Continues And Drought Unfolds
9/2/2001
A Catastrophe in the Making
2/2/2001
Africa: Treadle Pumps Give More 'Crop Per Drop'
"We Averted a Famine" says WFP Chief Bertini in Launching a New EUR 400 Million to Help the Drought Stricken Horn of Africa


19/1/2001
Help El Salvador
Commission Approves Emergency Aid for Palestine
DR Congo: Misery Continues as Kabila Disappears

12/1/2001
Sub-Saharan Food Shortages Will Affect 28 million in 2001
A Tough Year

5/1/2001
Sudan: 3 Million at Risk as Food Prices Treble


22/12/2000
Food Agency Curtails Distribution to One Million Angolans
1/12/2000
Doubts over Whether World Food Hunger Targets will be Reached

17/11/2000
Humanitarian crisis in West Africa Worsens 
3/11/2000
How Do We Meet Hunger Targets Asks UN?

Afghanistan Hovers On The Brink
20/10/2000

A Millennium Free from Hunger" World Food Day 2000

EU gives further support to World Food Programme in Angola

826 million still do not have enough to eat says FAO report

The World Food programme

Food, Famine, Drought and Flood

13/10/2000

Commission Grants Further Food Aid to Horn of Africa 

29/9/2000

Drought crisis in Kenya: Commission grants further food aid 

22/9/2000
The scourge of Global Hunger


©EuropaWorld 2004 -2008 Copyright Policy / About us / Endorsements / Contact us