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	Food - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin.
		Food for livestock is fodder and traditionally comprises hay or grain.
		Food allergy is thought to develop easier in patients with the atopic syndrome, a very common combination of diseases: allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis, eczema and asthma.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /food.htm (2601 words)

	World Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Food Programme (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters.
		Development projects now constitute less than 20% of WFP programmes, as emergency and protracted refugee situations result in increasing demands for WFP programmes and resources.
		In 2000 3.5 million tons of food aid was distributed to 80 countries by the WFP at a cost of US$1.7 billion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Food_Program (182 words)

	Food - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rationing is sometimes used to fairly the equal distribution of food in times of shortage, most notably during times of war.
		Foodborne illness or food poisoning, is caused by bacteria, toxins, viruses and prions.
		The sale of rancid, contaminated or adulterated food was commonplace until introduction of hygiene and vermin controls in the 19th century.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Food (2302 words)

	World Food Program Struggling With Explosion in Food Crises, February 25, 2003
		The United Nation's World Food Program (WFP) is struggling to cope with a rising tide of global food emergencies caused by a combination of failing economic policies, political and ethnic violence, the AIDS epidemic and a sharp rise in natural disasters, says WFP Executive Director James Morris.
		WFP efforts are failing to meet overall food needs in emergency situations like those in Afghanistan, North Korea and Africa, and simultaneously failing to alleviate the chronic hunger that affects hundreds of millions of families who are not victims of war or natural disasters, he said.
		WFP is also working, under more promising conditions, in some of the ex CIS states, such as Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, which are struggling with the transition from centrally planned to market economies.
	www.usis.it /file2003_02/alia/a3022513.htm (5082 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		The food first goes to urban areas where the WFP warehouses are located and then is distributed to more rural areas by local Afghan staff.
		Our WFP Afghan staff are bravely continuing to unload trucks, store food in our warehouses and to distribute the food to the most hungry throughout this current crisis.
		Abigail Spring: The majority of food that the WFP is moving into Afghanistan is wheat.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/attack_spring101501.htm (1688 words)

	United Nations in Rwanda
		Since the genocide in 1994, WFP has focused on providing relief assistance to populations with immediate food assistance needs, while supporting a framework for recovery and transition programmes to contribute to the country’s gradual shift from emergency to the present recovery and development phase.
		WFP has also increased efforts in the advocacy of national food security issues, including the establishment of a national Disaster Management Unit within the Office of the Prime Minister.
		WFP is playing a lead role in food needs and vulnerability assessment, capacity building through training and empowerment of local structures, and livelihood support to provide assets to local communities.
	www.unrwanda.org /wfp.htm (262 words)

	USIS Washington File: TEXT: WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AIDS KOSOVAR REFUGEES
		WFP said in an April 9 statement that donors have responded rapidly, already pledging 70 percent of the necessary resources.
		WFP is managing a $46 million emergency operation to help the residents of the province of Kosovo who fled violence and persecution in their homeland.
		WFP is distributing humanitarian daily rations donated by the United States to the refugees in the region.
	brisbane.usvpp.gov /hyper/WF990409/epf515.htm (606 words)

	World Food Program Increases Aid Deliveries to Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The World Food Program continues to dispatch a record amount of food into Afghanistan during the month of December.
		The WFP warehouse and offices were looted and destroyed, so we are currently looking for suitable warehouse in the area.
		Food is now moving from our WFP warehouses in Quetta and Spin Boldak through the provinces of Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul, and Farah to Herat.
	www.useu.be /Categories/GlobalAffairs/HumanResponse/Dec2601WFPFoodDeliveryAfghanistan.html (1038 words)

	WIN News: World Food Program Wants To Put Women In Charge Of Food Assistance - Brief Article
		The Director of the WFP said it was high time to stop this viscious circle and that the different agencies of the United Nations together with the international community develop strategies to empower women in crisis siuations and put them in charge.
		One of our objectives is to distribute 80 percent of food aid to women and assign 50 percent of all the funding collected to the education of girls.' These were the objectives of the WFP incorporated in the Action Plan of the Beijing Conference in 1995.
		The WFP distributes a nourishing hot meal to 357,000 preschool and primary school children in drought areas of Kenya and in the schools of slums of Nairobi and asked the international community to put women in charge of all assistance activities.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m2872/2_26/62140789/p1/article.jhtml (407 words)

	THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
		All of the funding for the WFP is by donation.
		The policies governing the use of World Food Programme food aid must be oriented towards the objective o f eradicating hunger and poverty.
		Shipping food from North America and Europe helps their farmers and governments, but is sometimes disastrous for the farmers in the receiving country.
	www.cariboo.bc.ca /un/WORLD_FOOD_PROGRAM.htm (722 words)

	C. World food program
		The Conference noted that, insofar as the Program in future had resources available for the purchase of foodstuff a to provide a more balanced diet, such purchases would be made, as far as was possible and economic, from those developing countries which were exporters of food and were seeking to expand food exports.
		Food aid was only an Interim solution to the food problems of the developing areas; the basic answer to these problems lay in an increase in local food production.
		A number of delegates described the role of WFP emergency operations or development projects in their countries, and expressed the gratitude of their governments to donor nations and to the World Food Program.
	www.fao.org /docrep/46140E/46140e06.htm (4254 words)

	World Food Program Says African Food Crisis Threatens 38 Million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WFP is trying to provide one-third of the food aid while the Zimbabwe Government and private traders provide the rest, Morris said, but WFP fell short of its goal of reaching 3 million people in November and expects to fall even further below its December goal of feeding 6 million people.
		In the short term, the WFP chief said, a major infusion of funds for humanitarian relief and better cooperation from recipient governments is needed and there must be a shift from reliance on the United States for food aid.
		WFP chief Morris said that African nations must invest more in agriculture "including embracing the promise inherent in biotechnology and changes to international trade regimes so Africa's farmers are not driven from the marketplace by subsidized exports from the developed world."
	www.useu.be /Categories/Sustainable%20Development/Dec0302WFPAfricaFamine.html (1453 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - World Food Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		World Food Program (WFP), unit of the United Nations, created in 1961 by the General Assembly as a three-year experimental project of the UN and the...
		Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), specialized United Nations agency whose main goal is to eliminate hunger on a world...
		The Encarta World English Dictionary offers definitions and information on etymology, usage, and pronunciation for more than 100,000 words,...
	encarta.msn.com /World_Food_Program.html (217 words)

	World Food program warns Funding Shortfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		he UN World Food Program announced a US $3.2 million funding shortfall for an emergency operation aimed at reaching 170,000 people still facing severe food shortages in Mozambique after two consecutive years of floods.
		WFP in January extended its emergency operation to the end of March, at an additional cost of US $4.1 million.
		These plans are now being put into operation in readiness for possible additional needs in the current rainy season, and WFP has already pre-positioned some 2,400 mt of food throughout the country, the agency noted.
	www.xaviermissionaries.org /M_Life/NewsArchive/AfricaNews/Moz_WorldFood.htm (306 words)

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		Millions of people are homeless and in need of food following the earthquake in South Asia. WFP is already delivering food for 1 million people.
		Funds are desperately needed to help WFP provide emergency food to 2.5 million people in Niger, where children are beginning to die from starvation.
		Funds are needed for WFP’s emergency program in the El Chaco region, where the worst drought in seven years is taking its toll on thousands of people.
	www.friendsofwfp.org (120 words)

	Aid & Development: WFP survey shows high prevalence of food insecurity in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AMMAN — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced the results today of an unprecedented survey in Iraq which concludes that some 6.5 million people — 25 percent of the entire population — remain highly dependent on food rations and are therefore vulnerable.
		According to WFP's Baseline Food Security Assessment, the first of its kind in Iraq, of these 6.5 million people, some 2.6 million are so poor that they have to resell part of their food rations to buy basic necessities such as medicines and clothes.
		WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: in 2003 we gave food aid to a record 104 million people in 81 countries, including 56 million hungry children.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1662.shtml (798 words)

	FAO - COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY (30th Session)
		World market prices for wheat, maize and rice, adjusted for inflation, have declined by 40 percent in real terms since 1960 and are at the lowest level they have been in 50 years (FAO, 2003).
		But achieving food security for the hungry cannot be achieved without broad-based participation by food-insecure people in their own development, in combination with much higher levels of investments in basic education, health care facilities, water resource development, transport systems, power grids, agricultural research and extension.
		Continued genetic improvement of food crop is needed to shift the yield frontier higher and to increase stability of yield.
	www.fao.org /docrep/meeting/008/J3205e/j3205e00.htm (8050 words)

	AEGiS-AP: World Food Program: Southern Africa Needs $404 Million
		But tens of thousands of families still face severe food shortages and need aid, WFP said, adding that it expects to feed an average of 1.5 million people a month over the three years.
		The five countries covered by the appeal account have some of the highest adult HIV/AIDS rates in the world and are struggling to cope with a growing number of orphans, increasing poverty and a rapidly declining life expectancy.
		WFP said about a third of the money it appealed for will go to support food relief and about two-thirds will be used to ease the effects of HIV/AIDS and alleviate chronic food shortages.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/2004/AP041041.html (497 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan Weekly Situation Report: 16 - 23 Feb 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WFP is joining hands with the Government, United Nations agencies and other partners to combat the acute food insecurities arising from extreme weather conditions in several parts of the country.
		WFP in collaboration with the Government and the coalition forces will soon launch food airdrops in areas inaccessible due to bad road conditions.
		Food commodities transported during the week amount to 6,510 MT, including 1,950 MT from points of discharge to hubs and 4,560 MT from hubs into Afghanistan.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JWIN-69WHUP?OpenDocument (457 words)

	World Food Program - Gurupedia
		United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons, and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters.
		WFP operates exclusively on contributions of commodities and money donated by governments.
		tons of food aid was distributed to 80 countries by the WFP at a cost of US$1.7 billion.
	www.gurupedia.com /w/wf/wfp.htm (143 words)

	World Food Program : WFP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Development projects now constitute less than 20% of WFP programs, as emergency and protracted refugee situations result in increasing demands for WFP programs and resources.
		WFP operates exclusively on contributions of commodities and cash donated by governments.
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	www.wordlookup.net /wf/wfp.html (192 words)

	WFP distributes food to Afghan children - NDTV.com - News on WFP distributes food to Afghan children
		WFP distributes food to Afghan children - NDTV.com - News on WFP distributes food to Afghan children
		Thousands of homeless and hungry children in Afghanistan are benefiting from a World Food Programme (WFP) scheme, which aims to distribute food to children forced into employment.
		Teachers who work at the centre search the streets of Kabul to find children who are forced to work in order to make money for themselves or for their families.
	www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?fromtimeline=true&id=62360&callid=1&template=afghanistancopes (183 words)

	WFP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		None of the 113 million people in 80 countries who ate WFP food last year could have done so without the generosity of our donors.
		Governments are the principal source of funding for WFP, and the agency invites every UN member state to contribute.
		After poor rains and the worst locust invasion in 15 years destroyed crops and livestock across Niger, the country is in the grip of its second-worst food crisis in history.
	www.wfp.org /index.asp?section=3 (298 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Five million in danger from southern Africa food crisis
		The food crisis in southern Africa caused by drought and soaring maize prices may soon affect at least 5 million people, the UN World Food Programme said yesterday.
		"The WFP is struggling to assist 2.6 million people in five countries," Ms Lewis said, adding that when teams sent to the affected areas to assess the extent of the crisis completed their work at the end of next month, "the figure could easily be twice as high".
		The WFP has already reported an "unprecedented food catastrophe" in Zimbabwe, where it is helping 558,000 people, and Ms Lewis warned of "a dramatic increase in the course of the next year".
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,690799,00.html (541 words)

	World Food Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The World Food Program (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons, and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters.
		The UN recommends that countries donate 0.7% of their GNP to the WFP.
		On 12 July 2004, Chancellor Brown committed the United Kingdom to achieving this by between 2009 and 2013.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/world_food_program (220 words)

	ABC News: World Food Program Phases Out Aid China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A final delivery of 43,450 tons of Canadian wheat worth $7.2 million was due to arrive in the southern port of Shenzhen on April 7, earmarked for poverty alleviation projects in four poor inland provinces, the WFP said in a statement.
		The phasing-out of aid heralds China's gradual emergence from decades of dire poverty and hunger, although incomes and living conditions in much of the country remain far behind those of the wealthy coastal cities.
		The WFP began providing food aid to China in 1979, supporting over 30 million poor Chinese in meeting their immediate food needs and helping build up infrastructure in their communities through programs exchanging food for work and training.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=631218 (287 words)

	Head of UN's World Food Program Resigns in Protest Over Iraq: - Islam America
		The WFP is linked to the oil-for-food program, which allows Iraq to sell Oil to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian needs for the Iraqi people.
		The WFP also distributes food aid to nearly one million needy Iraqis affected by the tough U.N. sanctions imposed on the country for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
		In Rome, WFP spokesman Francis Mwanza confirmed that Burghart had resigned, but he said it was a ``personal decision to leave and go back to her previous employer, the German government.'' He said her decision was not made to protest the sanctions.
	www.islamamerica.org /articles.cfm/article_id/30 (2492 words)

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