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The U.N.'s food agency cannot feed millions of hungry women and children in impoverished North Korea because international donations have dried up and the communist regime has restricted its operations, an official said Wednesday.
Her eight kids huddle together for warmth at night on the dirt floor of Julianna Maritim's hut. The little the family earns from crops puts meat on the table just once a month. But the aid workers driving up to their small plot one recent day weren't handing out food — they were buying it.
The Asian Development Bank announced Wednesday $35 million in emergency food aid to ease the burden of soaring food prices among some of Cambodia's poorest people.
The U.N. food agency urged donors Tuesday to separate politics from humanitarian aid as it appealed for $60 million to help impoverished North Korea avert its worst food crisis since the 1990s.
The U.N. food agency has asked South Korea to provide emergency aid to North Korea to help it avert a food crisis, an official said Thursday.
Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since the late 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food agency said Wednesday.
Japan announced Friday it will provide $50 million in new emergency food aid to help developing countries cope with the impact of soaring food prices.
Relief workers distributing thousands of tons of U.S.-supplied food in North Korea have unprecedented freedom of access in the insular country to ensure the food goes to the people who need it, says the project's chief U.S. negotiator.
Congress on Thursday sent a $290 billion farm bill to President Bush for a second time in an effort to fix a printing error that has threatened the delivery of U.S. food aid abroad.
South Korea said Wednesday it wants to provide 50,000 tons of corn to North Korea to help resolve the country's food shortage.
International food aid to Africa has declined and is unlikely to meet a goal set by the world's wealthiest countries of cutting hunger on the continent in half by 2015, congressional investigators say.
Japan allocated $54 million in emergency grants on Friday to the United Nations to help Afghanistan, Africa and Palestinian refugees cope with the ongoing food crisis.
South Korea was considering providing food aid to the North without a request from Pyongyang if the food shortage becomes severe, the South's foreign minister said Monday.
North Korea welcomed on Saturday a U.S. offer of food aid, saying the assistance would help alleviate shortages and improve relations between the two countries.
Amid a deepening world hunger crisis, leading food aid groups are calling for a "green revolution" that would help impoverished regions develop their own agriculture economies rather than relying on U.S.-grown food.
Growing global hunger because of rising food prices threatens to set back development in some of the world's poorest countries, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Thursday.
A U.N. food aid agency appealed to donor countries Monday to help close a spiraling gap of at least $500 million caused by soaring food prices, saying its efforts to feed the world's needy would otherwise have to be scaled back.
President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries. Congress is unlikely to go along.
Poor access and tight government control in military-ruled Myanmar have hampered efforts to provide food assistance in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation, the U.N. World Food Program said Thursday.
So Much Food. So Much HungerHow can so many people be hungry when farmers produce enough food, at least in theory, to feed every person on the planet?
Senate boosts food stamps as joblessness risesThe Senate has passed a $124 billion agriculture spending bill that pays to add millions of people to the food stamp rolls as rising numbers of the jobless are forced into the program.
World Struggling To Meet Urgent Hunger Challenge With a billion people on the planet going hungry every day, the world's response to the urgent hunger needs of the most vulnerable is flagging, with the result that critical food assistance is already being cut.
U2's Bono Rocks World With Hunger U2 frontman Bono Vox took the chance to get up-to-date on global hunger this week by chatting with WFP's Executive Director Josette Sheeran before going on stage for the Irish band's sell-out concert in Amsterdam.
Remotest Hunger Spots: Taking to Nicaraguas Coco River to deliver foodNicaragua's Coco River is a lifeline for the impoverished Miskito Indians who live along its shores – and the only way to deliver food aid to a population still recovering from the deadly 2007 Hurricane Felix.
Ex-Ghanaian President, John Kufour, is fighting world hungerJohn Kofi Agyekum Kufuor says he aims to inspire world leaders to ensure that every child receives the nutrition they need to develop their physical and mental potential.
Obama Enlists Major Powers to Aid World's Poorest Farmers With $15 BillionPresident Obama has enlisted the world's leading powers to contribute $15 billion to help millions of the world's poorest farmers grow enough food to feed themselves.
Record Level Of Hunger Looms On G8 Agenda The G8 is shifting their focus from food aid to agriculture... long term solutions are good, but short term urgent hunger solutions are needed too. The world food program does this well with their purchase for progress:
The Billionth Hungry Person In The World? Gulandam could be the billionth hungry person in the world. She didn't use to need food assistance in order to feed her family. Her husband, earns about 100 Afs (US$2) a day, working as a porter in Kabul City, and this used to be enough to get by. It isn't any more.
Exclusive Interview with Nick Kristof - On Malnutrition and the Economic CrisisNick Kristof writes compellingly in the NY Times this week that children suffering from malnutrition "don't cry. They don't smile. They don't move. They don't show a flicker of pain or interest."
The U.S. Should Lead On Congo - Cindy Mccain"the United States -- the single largest contributor of food aid to these people -- must make a choice. Will we walk away and let hundreds of thousands die of slow starvation, or will we push our aid package even harder?"
Poverty hits African Americans hardBBC correspondent Matthew Price continues his journey across America, and reports from Chicago, Barack Obama's home town, where African American community leaders fear the recession is dragging down their communities more than most.
U.N: Nearly 1 billion hungry people in worldThe number of hungry people in the world could soon hit a record 1 billion, despite a recent drop in food prices, the U.N. food aid organization said Wednesday.
Pirates a Constant Menace to Food Lifeline The high-profile hijacking of US ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates has thrown a spotlight onto the fragile food lifeline supporting millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa.
AIG Bosses could learn from birthday Boy ZaneAIG bosses could learn a thing or two from this boy. After stumbling upon WFP.org while surfing the web, a British schoolboy has decided to give up birthday and succeeded in feeding 1000 hungry children.
Pakistan: WFP Ramps Up Assistance to HungryPakistan, riven by political tensions in the last few days, has an ongoing need for food assistance which has deepened recently due to high food prices, conflict and natural disasters. In response, WFP is ramping up its programmes
Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and Somalia heading for starvationThe aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, political turmoil in Zimbabwe, security incidents in Somalia and drought in Uganda and Kenya will force millions into starvation.
Zimbabwe's starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries upThe United Nations is to halve the food ration to millions of Zimbabweans, bringing it below what will keep an adult alive, as the numbers of people dependent on aid rises sharply and donations from foreign governments fall well short of demand.
Nations pledge €5.5bn to alleviate hunger over the next 5 yearsMore than a dozen countries on Tuesday committed €5.5bn over the next five years as part of a fresh initiative to alleviate global hunger and help impoverished farmers boost production of agricultural commodities.
U.N. Suspends Food Aid Into Gaza The United Nations suspended its food aid deliveries into Gaza on Thursday after one of its contract drivers was killed during an Israeli attack on a delivery convoy at a border crossing.
Refugees report troops' looting, shooting spreeSoldiers went on a looting and shooting spree in a Congolese refugee camp, stealing from hungry and traumatized people who have fled fighting in the east of the country, witnesses said Monday.
Congolese stone U.N. convoy near campThousands of people displaced by fighting in eastern Congo have stoned United Nations vehicles at a refugee camp in anger at the organization's failure to protect them.
Bush calls for $770 million in food aidPresident Bush called on Congress Thursday to approve $770 million to help alleviate food shortages and dramatically escalating prices that threaten to cause widespread hunger and social unrest around the world.
Israel allows some fuel into Gaza... but blocks Food AidChristopher Gunness, spokesman for Unrwa, the UN agency in Gaza, said its warehouses were running out of wheat, meat, powdered milk and cooking oil.
Food Aid, With a TwistPurchase for Progress (P4P) is a groundbreaking initiative to transform the way the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) purchases food in developing countries.
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