(b) International procurement of strategic food commodities

Imports consisted mostly of food, machinery and fuel.

UNCTAD has also outlined a number of measures for international procurement and the trading of strategic food commodities, including a seminar on commodity trading and commodity supply management.

34. In 1998, some 1.2 million Afghans will benefit from WFP s total allocation of 106,590 tons of food commodities.

Food security went beyond the problem of production, since it involved access and distribution, including international trade in food and other commodities.

Food prices are rising fast, placing some basic commodities out of reach for a growing portion of the population.

In addition, WFP has injected over 10 million into the economies of Gaza and the West Bank, by local purchases of wheat flour, olive oil and other food commodities.

While food security remains a national problem, the production of food commodities has increased. This has reduced the need for food aid which was previously provided to the general population.

Guns, food, medical supplies.

FAO apos s ten Intergovernmental Groups on Commodities were currently looking into these issues for a wide range of agricultural commodities.

WFP has also implemented a pilot agricultural project targeting 500 small farmers in the southern Gaza Strip, whereby food commodities have been distributed to beneficiaries against a cash payment representing less than 30 per cent of the local market value of the donated commodities.

27. WFP s support to the project is the provision of food commodities such as hot, balanced meals for the pupils and staff members of educational institutions.

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

In addition, 50 women from low income households participate in a food for work scheme as volunteers assisting project staff in the distribution of food commodities.

WFP will provide the returnees with a three month food ration as well as non food items.

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Assesses the adequacy of controls over logistics, delivery and the quality of food rations as well as compliance with contract terms by the contractor with a view to ensuring operational efficiencies in rations management (see also 142, 150, 159 and 164).

28. WFP also reported that in pursuance of Security Council resolution 986 (1995), commercial activities involving food contracts have taken place in Turkey and Jordan, as approved by the sanctions committee on the supply of commodities to Iraq.

FAO and WHO have held joint expert consultations on the safety assessment of foods derived from genetically modified organisms.

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Quantity conversion factors will be reviewed and agreed upon with the understanding that the factors provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for agricultural products will be taken to the maximum extent possible.

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Secondly, there had been a shift from bulk commodities to high value commodities.

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Implementation of the modified form of food support introduced in the previous reporting period whereby a cash subsidy equivalent to 40 per person per year replaced certain lesser valued commodities in the food ration, with the other commodities still being distributed in kind continued to proceed smoothly, although in late 1997 the cash subsidy was disbursed behind schedule owing to delays in receipt of funding.

In particular, the volatility of food and commodity prices, including petroleum prices, is seriously denting the financing capacity of many poor countries.

Commoditized where they're treated like a commodity, where people don't care who makes them.

Imports exceeded exports last year.

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Intermediaries trade on behalf of others, and while some intermediaries handle the goods themselves, as in the case of commission agents, others, brokers for example, sell products without even seeing them.

On the National Day eve, known as the kingdom of cereals , Luliang City was holding a cereals event in the autumn harvest season. More than 200 merchants took part in the exhibition with 426 kinds of famous and super quality functional products.

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.

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