Energising School Feeding
<p>Cooking school meals requires energy. In some countries, families are asked to contribute to fuel expenses or to provide firewood, failing which, children may be refused school meals. The acquisition
World Food Programme (WFP)
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Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, 'hunger hotspots' remain
World food prices have hit a four-year low, a UN agency reported on Thursday, with record harvests breathing new hope into the fight against hunger, though some "hunger hotspots" remain. Global wheat
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World hunger easing but 1 in 9 people undernourished - food agencies
The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture
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WFP Says it Needs $70 Mln to Feed 1.3 Mln People in Ebola Quarantine
The World Food Programme needs to raise $70 million to feed 1.3 million people at risk from shortages in Ebola-quarantined areas in West Africa, with the agency's resources already stretched by several
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WFP provides 5.1 mln USD to help South Sudanese
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it has received 5.1 million U.S. dollars to provide urgently needed food and nutrition support for the most vulnerable people of South Sudan. WFP said
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WFP to spend $6.7mn for nutrition programme in FATA
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) will spend 6.7 million dollars for nutrition and school feeding programme by the end of this year in six agencies of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
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Canada Supports WFP's Fight against Hunger, Malnutrition in Sudan
KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed yesterday a generous contribution from the Government of Canada towards WFP emergency operations in Sudan. The contribution of CAD 5 million
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UN body to launch zero hunger project in Odisha
Project soon for each to have access to sufficient food Odisha will soon launch a zero hunger challenge project in collaboration with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP). Chief Minister
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WFP to spend $535m to assist 8m people in Pakistan
The World Food Programme (WFP) would assist eight million people till 2015 at a total cost of $535 million in different parts of the country, especially in the disaster-prone areas. “This programme would
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Ministry statistics shows reduced number of livestock and fowls
There was slump in livestock farming in the country as compared to last year. According to the preliminary estimate of the agro products of the FY 2070-71 BS publicized by the ministry, the productivity
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UN expecting to feed 6.5 million Ethiopians this year
The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. "We are concerned