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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The world&#39;s poorer nations are paying a heavy price in human lives for the failure of the rich to provide the resources they promised to fight global hunger and poverty, humanitarian agency Oxfam said in a report released Sunday.
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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.
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More than 500 million people can  escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to  bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich  countries double development aid over the next 10 years to $195  billion, a new U.N.-sponsored report said on Monday.
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Rugged terrain, downed bridges, and the sheer volume of aid are slowing supply distribution.
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Commodities rise to record levels on demand, dollar depreciation.
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Rising insecurity in Afghanistan has disrupted the delivery of vital aid to about one million people, the U.N. World Food Program said on Saturday.
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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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There's no end in sight to the agony of millions of displaced people, but servicing the needs of the thousands of aid workers and peacekeepers has created an economic boom in a dusty northern town
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Hungry refugees along Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged coasts complained of slow aid delivery Saturday, while world pledges for the massive relief efforts shot up to about &#36;2 billion, a quarter of it from Japan, which boosted its contribution to make it the single largest country donor.
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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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As desperately hungry flood victims wander the streets of Gonaives searching for help, tons of food aid is piling up in a warehouse guarded by UN peacekeepers.
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With Africa lagging behind in  global development goals and rich countries cutting aid,  leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on  Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme  poverty on the continent.
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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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About 360,000 needy people in Sudan's Darfur region are out of reach of the World Food Program because of fighting, officials said on Tuesday.
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One of the world's poorest countries, Cambodia, is set to ask for almost $2bn in aid over the next three years.
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The hungry scavenged for food and water and the wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh Wednesday, as a global relief effort staggered to help survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.