Commodity boom eats into aid for world's hungry
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Food donations to the world's hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations.
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Business & money: Â· Traders give thumbs down to $145bn aid packageÂ· Democrats say needs of poor have been ignored
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The World Food Programme is starting to airlift almost 100 more tons of food a day to Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region.
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Food commodity prices have risen by 21 percent since 2005, which will stretch aid groups' resources.
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Asia's superrich are grappling with an enviable new challenge: how to give away their billions
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The World Food Programme is starting to airlift almost 100 more tons of food a day to Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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The Darfur conflict in Sudan has unleashed a crisis on the scale of the African famines of the 1980s, the International Red Cross says.
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The Middle Kingdom can't find enough oil to meet booming domestic demandÂand the world is paying the price at the pump
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia on Saturday, as aid workers, troops  and grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of  rotting corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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Efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunamis accelerate, as millions remain at risk from hunger and disease.
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ROME -- The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations estimated at more than 800 million people and rising, according to a UN report yesterday.
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JERUSALEM -- The United Nations will ask donor countries to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Palestinians, whose economy has been devastated by international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led government, UN officials said yesterday. The huge aid request is being made as poverty and unemployment have exploded throughout Gaza and the West Bank, and the Palestinian health ...
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Dozens of world leaders on  Monday embraced a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a  year in development aid to combat hunger, but a U.S. official  poured cold water on the initiative.
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The United Nations said that aid promised from around the world in response to Asia's tsunami disaster was now up to four billion dollars, as Australia, Germany and the IMF pledged yet more cash ahead of a key donors' conference.
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The World Food Programme has launched an urgent appeal for funds to feed North Korea, saying more than one third of its children are badly malnourished.
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International aid officials and development experts are voicing concern that the outpouring of generosity from the world's governments may deplete resources for other pressing needs in much poorer countries.