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Counterfire blogg (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
(NaturalNews) Riots and other forms of civil unrest have already broken out around the world in response to a global grain shortage and surging food prices. According to data from the World Food Program and the early warning and global information system of the Food and Agricultural Organization, street protests and rioting over high food prices [...]
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
WFP has dispatched a first convoy of food and other supplies for 200,000 displaced people in the LTTE-controlled area of Sri Lanka.
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Not about elections. Not about humor. I just committed to $20 a month, forever, to the World Food Program via the Letterman site (the head of WFP was on his show this week.) You can donate here. FWIW, 93% of what they raise goes directly to feed people. While you’re donating to [...]
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
from the International Herald Tribune A United Nations report says rising food prices have pushed half a million Guatemalans into poverty. A report from the U.N's World Food Program says another half of million of Guatemala's poor are now living in extreme poverty due to increased prices for the country's basic food staples. Guatemalan have seen corn, rice and bean prices rise by more than 40 percent...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Facts, figures and the lastest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.
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Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The press service of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Hryhorii Nemyria announced this in a statement.
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News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The Horn of Africa, which includes Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Djibouti, is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 1984, Peter Smerdon, a spokesman with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) told The Media Line (TML). It is a regional crisis, worsened by the conflicts in Ethiopia and Somalia, as well as by rising food and fuel prices, Smerdon said. Due to little rain in the usually...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran today called on donor nations to fully fund urgent hunger needs and infrastructure rehabilitation in Haiti, which has been ravaged by a succession of tropical storms.
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Port-au-Prince.– The director of the United Nations World Food Program has arrived in the Haitian city of Gonaives on a mission to alert the world to the need for aid after four killer storms devastated the area.
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Precious Kingdoms (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The United Nations World Food Program is appealing for $2.5 million for an emergency food program in Western Nepal, which has been inundated by heavy flooding this week. The WFP says the money will be used to feed about 170,000 people for one month. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. Nepalese live in make-shift houses on the road side after their houses got damaged due floods in Sunsari, about...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The Canadian government has announced that it is extending a life-saving mission by the frigate HMCS Ville de Québec to protect ships loaded with food from the United Nations World Food Programme against pirates off Somalia.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
GONAIVES, Haiti | The U.N. World Food Program’s director flew Friday to a Haitian city encased in mud to draw attention to the ongoing disaster and food crisis in the country.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
GONAIVES, Haiti — The UN World Food Program's director flew to a Haitian city still encased in mud today to draw global attention to the ongoing disaster that has enormously complicated the country's struggle to feed itself.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The operator of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken committed $80 million to help feed schoolchildren worldwide, the United Nations said Friday. Because of Yum! Brands' commitment, the U.N. World Food Program will be able to provide more than 200 million meals to schoolchildren in developing countries, the United Nations said in a news release. The pledge...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran today begins a two-day visit to Haiti to survey the devastation caused by successive cyclones and tropical storms.
