On food aid, while there is general understanding that food aid should not cause commercial displacement, what constitutes genuine food aid remains to be defined.

Today, food aid, our food aid huge engine 80 percent of it is bought in the developing world.

The Case Against Emergency Food Aid

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

(e) Improving the efficiency of the distribution of food aid.

By 2006, 10 million children will benefit from food aid programmes and 570,000 elderly will receive financial and food subsidies.

Food aid in the context of conflict settlement Afghanistan and other crisis areas.

In anticipation of possible food shortages in the coming months, several initiatives have been undertaken to ensure effective coordination of food aid.

With the lean season (when food is traditionally scarce) now well under way, an increasing number are relying on external food aid.

Food aid coming in every year when people are starving during the lean seasons.

Food aid provided by bilateral donors and international organizations was distributed as they decided.

In total, 17 million was allocated through April 2005 in cash assistance and food aid.

Stresses the benefits of food micro algae as a concrete aid in reducing acute malnutrition in food emergencies and chronic malnutrition among severely disadvantaged populations

The food aid situation remains precarious, with gaps in distribution and mounting malnutrition in the country.

Therefore, WFP will have to provide food aid to 1.5 million internally displaced persons through 2006.

For our part, Japan has provided humanitarian assistance in the form of blankets and food aid.

The World Food Programme (WFP) works directly with African Governments to tackle food insecurity by providing food aid and technical assistance to address the major symptoms and causes of food insecurity faced by Governments throughout sub Saharan Africa.

An inter ministerial commission on food aid has been established, with the assistance of international food agencies and donors, to identify the areas that are most likely to be vulnerable to food shortages.

According to the World Food Program, 70 of the population lack food security. An immediate injection of emergency food and medical aid is urgently needed to break the vicious circle of suffering and violence.

Well two years ago, we decided, let's transform the model of fighting hunger, and instead of giving out the food aid, we put it into food banks.

After having reached 1.5 million people in December, food aid had reached only about 1.2 million in January.

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.

Almost 88 per cent of the contributions were in the form of food aid, mostly in kind cereals, leaving other food requirements and most other critical sectors heavily underfunded.

In 2004, for instance, UNRWA provided food aid to more than 1.1 million Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Their river is dry despite the rain just having ended, and we have 150,000 people on almost permanent food aid.

WFP has a strong presence in most of these countries, with various programmes targeting food aid to the hungry poor.

Restrictions on movement and declining donor support, however, required UNRWA to scale back its core emergency interventions, including food aid.

(j) Ensure that humanitarian assistance, including food aid, reaches the target groups, with unimpeded access and transparent monitoring and accountability

An interministerial Commission on Food Aid, which, with the assistance of international actors, is currently drawing up a national strategy to identify and distribute food to those most vulnerable to shortages.

ROME A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

For the past two years, 500 of these villages where these are have not needed any food aid they're self sufficient.

The costs of preference erosion, possible increases in food prices and the streamlining of food aid following agricultural trade liberalization and reform need to be cushioned through adequate adjustment support to concerned developing countries.

The first phase of 12 months, which started in October, encompassed (i) refinement of analytical methods and tools through market analysis studies, (ii) the effect of food aid interventions, (iii) non food response options to crisis situations, and (iv) chronic versus transitory food insecurity.

Two million Palestinians depended on food aid for survival and lived in absolute poverty, in other words on less than 2 a day.

Her Government could not continue its disproportionately high share of food aid programming it called on other countries to rise to the challenge.

High seas MPAs would aid the recovery of depleted and overfished fish stocks thereby creating employment and ensuring food security for coastal communities.

Providing food aid cannot be an alibi for a failure to recognize the causes of crises in which millions of people suffer so terribly.

More than 50,000 internally displaced persons and refugees have returned to their places of origin, and food aid is being distributed to 32,500 families.

Thus far, some 25 million in assistance, including food aid, medicine and other products have been transported aboard Qatari aircraft to the affected countries.

The measures adopted in the port of Hajdoud, obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance and development aid, had prompted the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to suspend food aid supplies to Palestinian towns.

Additional resources for the health, water and sanitation, and agricultural sectors are urgently needed to complement the significant food aid contributions that have been made.

Israeli aid to Indonesia has included 16 tons of baby food, 30 tons of rice, flour, water, sugar and grain, and 20 tons of medicine.

Every year, WFP provides food aid to millions of vulnerable people who would risk their livelihoods and in many cases face starvation without humanitarian assistance.

In view of that, besides launching regional appeals for food aid, SADC is focusing on programmes aimed at mitigating the food insecurity situation in the long term, including operationalizing the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan and, in particular, the formulation of the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Business Plan.

Economist Eleni Gabre Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize risk for farmers and turn the world's largest recipient of food aid into a regional food basket.