She wondered, in particular, about the basic livelihood of women, including how much food was produced, how much international assistance was required to meet food needs, and whether such needs were being met.

The report recommends the provision of supplementary food to prisons where food rations are so low that they do not cover the basic needs.

The rise in the number of vulnerable persons created an additional need of 66,198 metric tonnes in food aid, bringing the total food requirement to 464,385 metric tonnes.

Food, medical supplies and other basic necessities continue to be provided by partners, including the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

This has brought the total food requirement to 464,385 tons.

The rising costs of food, declining food security, lower production costs and cutbacks in public subsidies on basic foodstuffs are also obstacles to the realization of the right to adequate food.

In a world where 800 million people did not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs, access to sufficient and nutritionally adequate food was essential.

For a long time, Myanmar had not only fulfilled its own food needs but had also been a net exporter of food.

As of mid February, only 30 per cent of food requirements were met in Ethiopia for the year and minimal pledges had been made for non food requirements.

100. In 1997, WFP responded to the needs of about 1.5 million people more than 25,000 tons of food were distributed.

Beyond food aid, we need to invest in food security, livelihoods and basic services.

It is reported that the grain production situation in Jilin this year is generally stable, the demand of grain market has increased due to some grain processing enterprises increased production capacity and operating rates.

Food security was a severe problem approximately 1 billion additional dollars would be needed to meet emergency food needs, including the requirements of refugees, who often had no other means of support.

Agreement between IFAD and the World Food Programme (WFP) would also cover resource mobilization for CCD activities where food aid and resources of the WFP would be required.

While resources for emergency food needs for the remainder of the year have already been met, the response to the non food sector remains a concern.

Needs and rights relating to food and food security

Other reforms included the introduction of cost recovery requirements at the Lokichokio base camp and the standardization of both food and non food assessment methodologies.

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.

Promotion of food security through better farming practices to enable the youth generate income to meet their basic needs, and

At the household level food security is designed to guarantee the whole population physical and financial access to basic foods on a lasting basis.

Where education is prized as the foundation of spiritual well being?

Indigenous Foods and Local Food Security

Figures clearly showed that basic foodstuffs provided by WFP only sufficed during a crisis and were totally inadequate for an extended crisis situation as was the case in the Western Sahara.

Global availability did not mean that food reached those who needed it most.

Largely dependent on mining, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had also become dependent on imported food.

(d) The implications of such improvements for meeting basic human needs more effectively, such as education, health, water and food

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Food science and technology at the National Food Research Institute, Japan (5)

In addition, the Government has developed a consensus policy on food and nutritional security, the objectives of which are (a) to break the intergenerational circle of chronic malnutrition in the country (b) to expand the availability of basic foodstuffs (c) to improve the organic value of foods and (d) to assess and monitor the food and nutrition security situation in the country.

It is anticipated that it will be possible to accommodate the WFP depot requirement on UNLB premises without detriment to the Base s own operations.

(b) Influencing the supply of, and demand for, food including

In this context, WFP will distribute food supplies, particularly rice, to the most vulnerable population groups whose need for food assistance has been clearly established.

Rice was the staple of Myanmar and its main export product.

21. Achieving global food security also required increases in food production, particularly in many of the low income food deficit countries.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

Primary energy demand

Over the long term, the international community must find a way to produce more food while protecting and conserving the natural resource base.

(e) Inadequate infrastructure development in agriculture and other related sectors to meet the demand for increased food production

Millions of people simply cannot afford to buy the food that they need, which could still be the case if supply were increased. Fixing the demand side to get nutritious food to the poor particularly to the mothers and children who are most vulnerable is one of the most pressing food security imperatives.

Food was a fundamental component of the human right to an adequate standard of living.

Land degradation and food insecurity were basically poverty related problems.

47. Following the Operation Lifeline Sudan annual needs assessment in November 1997, WFP advised that food security in southern Sudan was deteriorating and that approximately 2.3 million people affected by war and drought throughout the country would require food assistance in 1998.

To enable food insecure households, families and individuals to meet their food and nutritional requirements and to seek to assist those who are unable to do so.

It was clear that successful interventions in supplementary and therapeutic feeding, emergency health and water and sanitation as well as the coordinated and timely delivery of seeds and tools and other household food security inputs must all accompany food distributions if the basic survival needs of populations in acute risk were to be met.

While appreciating the coordination that was taking place between the food agencies the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme members of the Committee sought information on the needs of and the obstacles and problems encountered by the mechanisms in coordinating the fight against hunger.