Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
Wfp has announced to halve its food aid to Mozambique. The announcement has come ahead of the critical lean season between harvests, when food stocks generally run out. In a statement, the food agency said the move is due to a 77 per cent shortfall in funding; it required us …
The United Nations World Food Program (wfp) has said it will withdraw food aid from Angola, citing its failure to mobilise donors to support the programme. In a recent announcement, it said the three-decade-long relief operations in the country would start winding up from the end of 2006. wfp's current …
asean health meet: Health ministers of 11 South East Asian countries met in Dhaka recently to discuss over ways to enhance cooperation to develop health care services in the region. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia inaugurated the meeting and said that developing countries could benefit from technology transfers and the …
With the number of war-torn and disaster-hit nations increasing, the world's need for food is increasing. Unfortunately, the issue of such aid has become embroiled in controversies relating to corporate interests in the developed world. At the heart of the matter is the question about whether food aid should be …
This article examines the divergent political responses to unplanned exposure to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the Global South. Although scientific and domestic political considerations have some relevance to explaining different positions among developing countries, trade considerations appear to be a principal driver of GMO policy. This consideration is strikingly …
It is good and bad news for China. Citing the country's economic growth in recent years, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has decided to phase out its food aid to it from 2005. While experts believe this is an indication of China's growing global importance, they also warn the …
dengue resurfaces: Delhi is once again in the grip of dengue. The disease claimed its first victim at Apollo Hospital on October 5, 2004. Over 180 cases have already been reported in the capital. The disease is also spreading in the neighbouring town of Noida; media reports claimed the occurrence …
Concerned about the environmental risks of biotechnology, the Angolan government has announced a ban on genetically modified (gm) food aid. As a result, almost 2 million people might go hungry in the southern African country. While there is no famine in Angola, food is scarce and expensive. Its stance may …
Landmines and damaged transport infrastructure are proving to be the biggest roadblocks to humanitarian aid reaching 1.2 million Angolans. The un Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said many non-governmental organisations were forced to suspend their operations or withdraw staff from locations because of inaccessibility to the areas. Angola …
Last year's controversy about food aid from the us containing genetically modified (gm) materials appears to have left African nations wiser. Fourteen countries from the southern part of the continent have agreed upon a common strategy to manage gm products. The guidelines were formulated at a meeting of the Southern …
the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (geac) categorically rejected for the second time in five months a request by two North-based aid agencies to allow the import of 23,000 tonnes of genetically modified (gm) corn-soya blend into India. Permission was denied because it was felt that the consignment could be contaminated …
a survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line (bpl) households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society groups under the 'right to food' campaign. They are objecting to the exercise on two counts: firstly, the criteria used for poverty estimation are incorrect; …
Hunger and poverty are essentially a human-made problem and can, hence, be overcome by human beings. The apologists of status quo would have us believe that being poor is
Not surprisingly, strong anti-us sentiments were in evidence at the recently-concluded World Summit on Sustainable Development (wssd) at Johannesburg. One reason, of course, was the us refusal to sign the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, despite being the most polluting nation on Earth. Ehrlich A and Ehrlich P best described the sheer …
While Malawi has decided to mill genetically modified (gm) food from the us, Zambia is still resolute on its decision not to accept gm maize. Zimbabwe, on the other hand, has instituted a milling programme to ensure that none of the food aid it accepts is used for planting.
finally, there's hope on the horizon for Zimbabwe's hunger-stricken population. The country's government has reached an agreement with international relief agencies for the quick release of thousands of tonnes of food aid. In an unusual pact between the Zimbabwean government, the un World Food Programme and Zimbabwe's Grain Marketing Board, …
it is a paradox that has stumped the Union government. On the one hand, the central task force is flooded with requests for aid as the drought devastates state after state (12 at the last count). And, on the other, the country is saddled with a huge surplus stock of …
A compromise has been made to stave off starvation. Although Zambia initially rejected genetically modified (gm) maize in food aid, it has now asked the World Food Programme (wfp) to buy the cheaper gm corn to feed its people. In June Zambian agriculture minister Mundia Sikatana had banned imports of …
With 23 million Kenyans facing shortage of food due to failure of seasonal rains, President Daniel arap Moi has appealed for food aid from the us and the European Union. The President made this appeal while addressing a rally at his rural home near the farming town of Nakuru, 140 …
