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WFP Working To Bring Urgently-Needed Food To Northern Mali As Food Security Worsens
BAMAKO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently working with partner organizations to reach families in northern Mali whose access to food has been reduced by the on-going conflict and is expected to worsen with the oncom...
A U.N. Appeal to Save Syria
After more than two years of conflict and more than 70,000 deaths, including thousands of children. ... After more than five million people have been forced to leave their homes, including over a million refugees living in severely stressed neighboring...
Rising Number of Haitians Going Hungry after Hurricane – U.N.
BOGOTA (AlertNet) - Around 1.5 million Haitians are going hungry because devastating floods caused by Hurricane Sandy washed away food crops and harvests and destroyed swathes of agricultural land, the United Nations said on Monday as it appealed for a...
Girl from Kenya Inspires 50,000 Meals on World Food Day
Inspired by the story of a young girl growing up in one of Africa’s biggest slums, WFP supporters rallied to provide more than 50,000 meals for World Food Day. Destined for hungry children in schools around the world, most of the meals arrived in...
On World Food Day, WFP Emphasizes Commitment to the Most Vulnerable
WFP celebrates World Food Day (16 October) by reaffirming its commitment to helping communities overcome food insecurity. In Mozambique, WFP works with its partners so smallholders can improve the quality of their produce and gain better market ac...
Women in Guatemala Take Charge of Their Farms
Helping poor rural women become successful farmers is one of the best ways to build a food-secure world. That’s what the P4P programme is doing in Guatemala by teaching women farmers how to grow more and better food that they can sell on local ma...
UN Warns of Rising Food Costs After Year’s Extreme Weather
The UN has warned of increasing meat and dairy prices in the wake of extreme weather in the United States and across large parts of Europe and other centres of global food production. (..) According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rom...
Globally Almost 870 Million Chronically Undernourished – New Hunger Report
But there are hopeful signs that with extra effort the MDG target can be reached 9 October 2012, Rome - Nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to the new UN hunger report r...
Humanitarian Crisis Looming In Yemen: UN
"Yemen is sliding ever further into a humanitarian crisis," WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told reporters in Geneva, adding that "more than 10 million people, or about half the population, is hungry and needs food". The country, one...
UN: 1.5 Million Syrians in Need of Food Aid
The spike in the number of Syrians needing food, or money to buy food, has come as fighting has forced families to leave homes and jobs, with little hope of supporting themselves elsewhere. (..) In New York, the U.N.'s World Food Program warned that it...
