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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A QUARTER of a billion people in some of the worldâs poorest and most populous countries in East Asia have been lifted out of extreme poverty by rapid economic growth over
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year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the United States has poured cold water on the project. &quot;The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it.
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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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Some 400,000 Mauritanians need food aid after last year's locust invasions, the UN says.
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Food drops and other aid trickled toward this region from around the world on Friday, but slowly enough that the injured and the stranded in many places
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Rich nations need to increase their funding to poor countries if they are to meet aid commitments a report says.
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Hunger and malnutrition kill more than 5 million children each year and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual hunger report.
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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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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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The Bush administration is more than $400 million short in its plan to send emergency food aid to developing countries, leaving 9 million people at risk of going hungry, a coalition of aid groups said on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - 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.
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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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Asia's superrich are grappling with an enviable new challenge: how to give away their billions
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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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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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Global pledges of aid pass $2 billion, but supply snags keep many survivors waiting.