Table World Trade in Selected Food Products

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

The table indicates the overall values in world trade for selected food groups.

Codex Alimentarius was established by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO) to set safety standards in the food trade.

Prisoners continue to receive food and other supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP), ICRC and other partners.

The World Food Programme is providing food to the refugees in all camps and in transit way stations during repatriation.

Restaurants and the food industry in general are pretty much the most wasteful industry in the world.

Thus for instance, the World Food Programme (WFP) was able to dispatch food packages to Voinjama in Lofa County the first in five years.

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In order to make the products of the food processing industries competitive on the world market, UNIDO will provide assistance in food safety and quality through specifically designed projects targeting the deficiencies of individual food industry subsectors.

According to the World Drug Report 2005, some 200 million people or 5 per cent of the world's population age 15 64 had used drugs at least once in the last 12 months.

Prisoners continue to receive food and other supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP), ICRC and other partners.

Since mid December 2004, the World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed some 871 tons of food commodities to 288,993 beneficiaries.

Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet

As at June 2004, WFP provided food rations to 111,987 school children in 420 primary schools in Kambia, Port Loko and Bombali districts.

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Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition. Obviously, the recent increases in food prices are likely to drive the number of people vulnerable to food stress even higher.

Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world s population. Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.

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(c) With WFP

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.

The food situation in the camps remained very precarious for the following reasons WFP had been responsible for delivering five basic commodities (grains, pulses, oil, sugar and salt).

The scarcity and cost of foodstuffs are spreading to all parts of the world and are seriously endangering the right of every person to have a minimum amount of food to survive.

Wasting Food in a Hungry World

102. The world food situation was critical.

That situation enabled UNHCR and the World Food Programme to foresee the gradual suspension of food distribution to those refugees.

World trade in commodities

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Even now, there is enough food in the world, with a bumper harvest this year, but more people cannot afford to buy the food they need. Addressing this growing crisis is the aim of the Global Conference on Food Security in Rome on June 3 5.

Things she collected on her tours around the world.

(d) Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP)

Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World Food Summit five years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002,

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In 1979 the scheme was further modified by a switch to a system of food stamps (denominated in monetary terms) and by bringing certain food prices more into line with world prices.

The G 20 s efforts will culminate in the Cannes Summit in November. But, when it comes to specific policies, caution will be very much in order, for there is a long history of measures aimed at reducing commodity price volatility that have ended up doing more harm than good.

(8) foods processed with non food raw materials foods mixed with non food chemical substances, or non food stuffs used as food

In the second half of May, WFP and World Vision delivered food to 4,500 people, with non food items to be delivered soon.