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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Hunger and malnutrition are killing more than five million children a year, with Africa bearing the brunt in human lives, and costing developing nations billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the UN food agency's annual hunger report.
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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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Millions of people face starving to death after a drought in Afghanistan, the UK charity Christian Aid warns.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries. Congress is unlikely to go along.
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The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need
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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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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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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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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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Using plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and the biofuel goldrush could be a moneyspinner for several poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise.
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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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Efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunamis accelerate, as millions remain at risk from hunger and disease.
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Wealthy countries need to do much more to fight global poverty, the international aid agency Oxfam says.
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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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Some 400,000 Mauritanians need food aid after last year's locust invasions, the UN says.
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.