UN says soaring prices leave poor hungry
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Many of the world's poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the U.N. food agency said.
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The UN's food agency says that protectionism and a prolonged fall in prices are threatening the livelihoods of  2.5 billion people.
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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The world's poorest nations are at a technological disadvantage, says a United Nations trade body.
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While the surge in world oil prices has been a godsend for African exporters, it has placed an extra burden on other economies on the world's poorest continent, whose governments have passed on the cost increase to petrol pump users.
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Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami in outlying villages of Indonesia, the United Nations said, as the death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster soared above 226,000.
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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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A poor harvest coupled with a worsening economic crisis will leave more than a third of Zimbabwe's population in need of food assistance by early 2008, two U.N. food agencies said Tuesday.
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Developing nations fear that U.N. policies dictated by their wealthy counterparts have blocked efforts to fight poverty and warned that the failure to improve life for the world's poor would only perpetuate terrorism.
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ROME, Feb 18 (IPS) - The sharp increase in the international prices of  basic food is hitting the poorest rural communities, according to  groups representing millions of small farmers.
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A major UN report on world poverty calls for a huge increase in development aid to the poorest countries.
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Science and technology could do far more to end hunger and poverty than politicians realise, United Nations advisers say.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that the United Nations had received pledges of $500 million to pay for emergency assistance to victims of the south Asia earthquake and tsunami.
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Kofi Annan said $977 million is urgently needed to provide water, food, shelter and medicine over the next six months.
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The United Nations' world food body  outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest  nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher  program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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BEIJING The collapse of North Korea&#39;s economy has caused food prices there to skyrocket and created new groups of people who cannot afford to buy what they need to live, the World Food Program said on Wednesday.
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The head of the United Nations World Food Program appealed to goverments Friday to provide more cargo aircraft and helicopters to deliver relief supplies to victims of the tsunami disaster but praised the world's generosity in aid so far.