(iii) Food distribution

The State also provided food on the basis of rations through an extensive public distribution system.

Food security for all could not be separated from a sustainable system of production and distribution.

Cash for transport, distribution and superintendence costs of donated food Distribution cost related to 1997 food aid programme

She would also like to know how food was distributed to ensure that women received necessary sustenance for their families, and how the public food distribution system functioned.

A total of 298,132 internally displaced persons throughout Iraq benefited from the emergency humanitarian response (totalling 2.1 million) through the distribution of non food items and canned food for immediate consumption to complement the shortages in the public distribution system.

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution

(c) Maintenance of food and storage safety, with special focus on the Agency's 10 warehouses, 57 food distribution centres and 128 distribution points

Urgent humanitarian distribution of food and non food and medical supplies 500,000 ( ) 1 year

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

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution Transportation

System of equitable geographical distribution

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

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution 876 000

(e) Food supply and distribution in French speaking African cities

This equitable system of distribution has been the only basis for the distribution of foodstuffs in Iraq under the oil for food programme, whose implementation is being monitored by a horde of United Nations observers.

(g) Measures to promote an equitable distribution of total food resources

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution 2 444 400

In addition, gender biases in food distribution can leave women and girls more susceptible to decreased household food availability.

(b) Provision of food, including transportation and distribution 8 400 64. Rations.

Balance at 1 January 1996 distribution costs of 13,450 tons of food

Food aid is delivered via a network of 60 fixed distribution centres and 123 mobile distribution points in more remote areas.

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

That tension hampered free food distribution for fear of distorting the local economy.

Facilities that have been damaged include schools, clinics, and food distribution centres.4

107. In order to achieve food security, better distribution of income was indispensable.

Some female surveyors were allowed to identify vulnerable widows for food aid distribution.

The system complements operational early warning systems for food security in eastern and southern Africa by providing fast and efficient data distribution capacity for environmental satellite data produced by the ARTEMIS system of FAO at Rome.

All of it, our food system.

WFP has correspondingly increased food distribution, delivering food assistance to over 1 million beneficiaries in July and increasing the number of food drop locations in the region.

III. Leasing of transmission facilities and satellite distribution system

In emergency situations, the main areas of cooperation relate to food distribution and monitoring.

Balance at 1 January 1996 distribution costs of 12,869 tons of food for 1993

The amount of food that actually reached needy families was greater if women were involved in assessing food aid needs and distribution.

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

In order to improve food security, especially in some developing countries that remain food insecure, there is a need to significantly increase food supply and improve food distribution through more sustainable agricultural systems.

164. Programmes for food distribution to organized women apos s groups through the National Office for Food Aid (ONAA), currently part of PRONAA.

The Emergency Working Group also learned that internally displaced persons were having great difficulty in collecting food rations from the Iraq public distribution system, owing to their relocation and the inability of the system to respond to moving beneficiary populations.

39. The organizations of the United Nations system present in Djibouti are developing activities related to repatriation, food distribution and education, as part of the regrouping efforts to resettle refugees in camps.

No emergency food aid was dispatched by the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission to any region in January and there are very limited stocks of food for emergency food aid distribution.

Whereas between 25 and 40 of Iraqis may require food assistance at any given time, this figure is much higher for displaced people, owing to their poor access to the public distribution system. Only a third of the displaced had access to the system last year, while half reported receiving food rations only occasionally.