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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$3.0m Korean aid for improvement of disaster-prone regions
The Korean Government will provide $3.0 million support to Bangladesh to improve its poor people's access to food in the disaster-prone regions. The fund, to be disbursed under a three-year project
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71pc households in Sindh food insecure: report
Despite having 14 million acres under crop cultivation in Sindh, over 71 per cent households in the province are food insecure — the highest level of food insecurity among the provinces and region, it
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Japan donates $5.46mn to help WFP support disaster-prone communities
Japan has confirmed a contribution of US$5.46 million (Yen 470 million, Tk 42 crore) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh, reports UNB. More than 400,000 people in the most disaster-prone
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Netherlands provides US$3mn for northerners to face disasters
The Netherlands government has provided US$ 3 million (Tk 23 crore) to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help people living in disaster-prone districts of southwest Bangladesh get better prepared to
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Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for Asia and the Pacific
This report analyzes comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) used its Social Protection Index to help
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WFP project lifts 30,000 women out of extreme poverty
Thirty thousand ultra poor women, supported by a four-year cash-transfer project, have moved out of extreme poverty in the disaster prone areas of three northern districts of Bangladesh, a report revealed
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Four million S. Sudanese may go hungry in 2013: UN
More than four million South Sudanese, a third of the African country’s population, may go hungry at some point in 2013 despite a higher harvest last year, the United Nations said on Friday. South Sudan’s
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Over two dozen villages in far-west face food insecurity
Dolpa, Humla, Bajura, Bajhang, and Darchula districts are likely to experience a deteriorating food security situation, according to a report. The twenty-five Village Development Committees (VDCs) of
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Number of moderate food insecure districts increases
The food security situation has deteriorated as compared to the previous quarter though the level of food insecurity was within a range of seasonal deterioration that is typically observed during the lean
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One in eight of world population going hungry - U.N
One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when high food