Shortage of food

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

Experiencing shortage of food

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 food shortage has also pushed many children out onto to the streets.

Of course she ate. Food was scarce for so long.

And the prison is still short of medicines for prisoners.

To address the shortage of teachers especially in remote areas, WFP provides food support to both in service teachers and teacher trainees.

Table 52. Households experiencing shortage of food, by category of place of residence

This reduction in the standard food ration has already contributed to the high malnutrition rates in parts of the country and the shortage of therapeutic and supplementary food has prevented an adequate response to the increasing number of malnourished children and women.

Israel, committed to the goal of ensuring the exercise of the right to food throughout the world, was working hard to address the food shortages faced by the Palestinian people.

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

A significant food gap is anticipated in the coming months.

259. It is important to point out that since the 1960s Tunisia has never experienced a food shortage at either the national or local level. This is particularly true with respect to basic foods (cereals, fats, sugar).

The economic and social situation remained grave, with food shortages and inadequate health and education services and a serious problem with HIV AIDS.

Women also suffer serious threats to their health as a result of scarcity of food supplies and economic resources, lack of access to land, and disruption of traditional support systems.

I'm afraid it won't happen so soon. The canned foods are on their way.

Table 50. Households experiencing shortage of food, by socio economic group

Vulnerable households, as defined above also require immediate short term assistance, in the form of food and non food distributions.

The main reasons for the food shortage were continuous insecurity and a 45 per cent decline in food production owing to drought.

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.

Violent conflicts, food shortages and governance crises are among the most widespread causes.

Livestock is also one of the biggest culprits in land degradation, air and water pollution, water shortages and loss of biodiversity.

She had seen conflicting reports in the media about the scale of the food shortage, and wished to know whether men, women and children had died as a result and how the women of the country coped with finding food for themselves and their families.

36. In the short term, those vulnerable persons currently under institutional care require material support, including food, domestic and non food items and medical supplies.

(a) Lack of information within the population and lack of knowledge about foodstuffs and health nutrition

This situation illustrates the Government apos s determination to ensure that food is available in a sufficiently safe supply to allow households access to an adequate diet according to their needs and to discourage any attempt at speculation designed to create shortages leading to illegal price rises.

An estimated 167,000 people in the region are reported to be running out of food, and require at least 7,500 tons of food to sustain them for three months.

The lack of fuel was hampering food distribution and jeopardized also the seed distribution programme.

The food shortage is particularly disturbing since only a few years ago Zimbabwe was a net exporter of food supplies.

Definitely no Table 51. Households experiencing shortage of food by unemployed and employed members and those receiving pensions

The problem of food shortage is, therefore, very sensitive to current and possible future changes in climate.

Zimbabwe, for example, is facing a critical economic situation involving food shortages and a ballooning budget deficit, together with inflation, unemployment and the HIV AIDS pandemic.

The humanitarian response seems critical to that country, with the situation steadily worsening, the food shortage becoming chronic and the number of people in need of assistance increasing.

UNICEF had also indicated that 3 million Iraqi women and children were in serious danger of malnutrition and lacked medicines. That was borne out by a press release of the World Food Programme, which also stated that it would take many generations to repair the damage caused by the scarcity of food and medicines.

Gifts account for a significant proportion within this category, although the relative amount is less than in the case of households in the food poverty category.

The ideal situation would have been for each family to receive as much as it needed, but shortages had forced rationing of food.

The programme aims to provide cash or food assistance, in exchange for public works, to some five million people who are subject to chronic food shortages.

Food shortages, compounded by burgeoning growth in world population, make the realization of the right to adequate food daily more remote.