Shortage of food

Heightened urban food insecurity, due to inflation and commodity shortages, has also been reported.

UNICEF will also promote commodity subventions as a front loaded investment for global public goods that are in short supply and can save the lives of children in poor countries.

And the prison is still short of medicines for prisoners.

For example, in commodity dependent and resource strapped Lesotho, remittance receipts represented about 27 per cent of GDP in 2001.

The floods also caused shortages of vegetables in the State shops.

Medication was lacking and no access was given to the media.

The shortage of disinfectants resulted from the lack of petroleum based commodities in the country, as the international sanctions imposed by the Security Council barred the importation of such products.

The measures taken by the Israeli authorities in violation of the agreements were disrupting trade and leading to shortages of day to day necessities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

410. Seasonal shortage of food is most of all felt in respect to fruit and fruit products (51.3 per cent), vegetables and vegetable products (38.0 per cent) and, in every fourth household, meat and poultry, meat products and fish and fish products.

Of course, technological advances, like hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) in the shale gas industry, could increase supply and therefore lower prices. But mounting environmental challenges, and the limited availability of commodity substitutes, suggest that a reprieve on commodity prices is not near.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Because there is no shortage of food worldwide, combating hunger implies providing people with the means of acquiring food.

Images of Scarcity

There was a shortage of fuel.

Your cut keeps going up.

During the consultations, speakers discussed both the long term and the short term dimensions of the problem of commodity price volatility.

Using the Ministry's data on rice imports, there is a shortfall in tax payments by the rice importers of at least of 3.7 million.

These scarce credits are, in their majority, applied in the areas of fast returns in commerce of consumable goods or in agricultural commercialization.

Further investigations also revealed a likely cartel of distributors who were alleged to be hoarding the product and thus creating an artificial shortage in the marketplace, leading to higher prices.

21. The United States policies also led to a scarcity of some of the essential goods that are needed for the improvement of the nutritional and health care standards of the Iranian people.

The objective was to insulate the consumer from the high cost of foodstuffs resulting from shortages.

In addition, crippling shortages of jet fuel and persistent funding shortfalls for air operations have severely constrained air support for food and non food deliveries.

Apakah kekurangan energi benar terjadi?

(i) Shortage of financial resources

Experiencing shortage of food

The issues of energy shortages, resource depletion, topsoil loss, and pollution are all symptoms of a single, larger problem

There is a general increase in food insecurity and a severe shortage of drinking water, as well as a decline in food consumption and nutritional levels.

The End of Want?

Barriers lack of resources

Impact of funding shortfalls

There's a serious shortage of cups aboard this ship.

The Director for Operations of UNODC pointed out that there was a serious funding shortfall in the demand reduction area of the drug programme.

Heavy snow blocked district roads and prevented the movement of food, causing shortages and steep price rises.

The conflict in the north west has led to the displacement of several thousands of civilians and an increase in food shortages.

The same is true of the health sector for it has not received the necessary funding. The qualitative shortcomings of the social and health infrastructures are compounded by a shortage of trained personnel, a general state of decay and shortage of equipment in the health centres and hospitals and the difficulty of obtaining essential drugs.

As the amount of commodities traditionally donated was not forthcoming, serious food stock ruptures occurred in late 1996, with most special hardship families not receiving a full ration in one or more distributions.

Health conditions in Iraq have deteriorated catastrophically as a result of the war and the embargo, and because of lack of medicines and the collapse of medical services.

We're in short supply these days.

(a) The basic essentials for the identification of market opportunities are often lacking in many commodity dependent countries.

The lack of access to electricity is even greater.

In addition to correcting imperfections in commodity markets, the international community must commit itself to providing additional resources to support commodity diversification programmes in Africa and elsewhere.

Because of the severe shortage of foreign exchange and the possibility of default, some of the funds were disbursed immediately upon agreement of the package.

In UNICEF, there was a shortfall of income over expenditure of 14.6 million compared with a shortfall of 5.4 million declared in the previous biennium.

8. The WHO Area Office in Belgrade had reported for the period from November 1992 to April 1993 that water purification chemicals were in short supply as a result of the lack of fuel and related products.