The food situation is indeed precarious in neighbouring countries as well.

Mudar gives me an idea of the food situation as he is the eldest among us.

The food aid situation remains precarious, with gaps in distribution and mounting malnutrition in the country.

Lack of rain in the region and volatile global food prices have made a bad situation worse.

Some delegations observed that the situation in some countries was deteriorating, and that food supplies were critical.

The food situation gave rise to growth delays and educational setbacks among children and anaemia among women.

The Government had looked into the situation of women crossing the border into China, mostly in search of food.

In such cases, rainfall is the most important meteorological factor in determining the food security situation locally and nationally.

Numerous factors make the food security situation in Africa tenuous, including political instability, armed conflict and civil war, corruption and mismanagement in handling food supplies, and trade policies that harm African agriculture.

The ideal situation would have been for each family to receive as much as it needed, but shortages had forced rationing of food.

The economic and social situation remained grave, with food shortages and inadequate health and education services and a serious problem with HIV AIDS.

The crisis is not limited to the problem of housing those affected by the Government's Operation Restore Order but includes the ever worsening situation in food and non food areas, where privations and shortages are reaching critical proportions.

The supply of food for households has generally remained stable however, population displacements and the increase in transportation costs render this situation fragile as many host households find themselves increasingly unable to cope with the rising food prices.

Mr. Akich Okola (Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi) Ms. Sima Samar (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan) Mr. Jean Ziegler (Special Rapporteur on the right to food)

The visit provided an opportunity to further raise interest among donor countries concerning this protracted refugee situation and to clarify a number of points regarding, in particular, issues relating to food distribution, including recurrent breakdowns in the food pipeline.

It is not sustainable to provide food assistance for millions of people year after year without making the necessary investment to get out of the situation.

Zimbabwe, for example, is facing a critical economic situation involving food shortages and a ballooning budget deficit, together with inflation, unemployment and the HIV AIDS pandemic.

Despite its depressed economic situation and poor food security, the Niger had never lacked political commitment to fulfil the aims of the World Summit for Children.

Ms. Greet Decausmaecker (Comité belge de soutien au people sahraoui) said that her statement would address the humanitarian situation in the Saharan refugee camps from the perspective of international law and United Nations resolutions, specifically in relation to the food situation.

An assessment of the food and nutrition situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip concluded that 40 per cent of the population was food insecure, while an additional 30 per cent was on the verge of becoming so, should conditions remain unchanged.

Given this situation, there is a potential for acute food insecurity in the future which may pose a threat to Somalia's already fragile peace building and reconstruction efforts.

The humanitarian response seems critical to that country, with the situation steadily worsening, the food shortage becoming chronic and the number of people in need of assistance increasing.

The food situation in the camps remained very precarious for the following reasons WFP had been responsible for delivering five basic commodities (grains, pulses, oil, sugar and salt).

There is West Indian Chinese food, there's Jamaican Chinese food, there is Middle Eastern Chinese food, there's Mauritian Chinese food.

GIEWS has been providing regular bulletins on food crop production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a regional and country by country basis since 1975.

More than one billion people in the world today do not have enough food to meet their basic daily nutritional needs, and the situation in developing countries is getting worse.

As I reported to the Council in April, the humanitarian situation in the subregion is already very serious due to severe food insecurity, widespread HIV AIDS and inadequate basic services.

While acknowledging the various serious crises in other parts of the world, I would like to focus on the drought induced food insecurity situation in a number of SADC countries.

Chronic food insecurity refers to less affordable food and growing urban poverty, while emergency food insecurity relates to breakdowns in the chain of food distribution.

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Finance ministers could tax unhealthy food and subsidize healthy food.

.....Poor people do indeed spend a large proportion of their income on food, which means that increases in prices have a direct effect on their financial situation and can even cause hunger.

Proceeding from on the information provided by the delegation of Niger on the famine situation prevailing in the country and on the need to mobilize urgent food assistance for the affected populations

Pending the results of the monitoring mission and further clarification by some major donors, the food situation will remain critical until the end of the year, starting as early as June 2005.

Agricultural protectionists, through the language of food security and food self sufficiency, claim that the same holds true for food.

After time, soft food can be introduced, and then hard food.

Shelters for short and medium term accommodation, receiving people who belong to vulnerable population groups (women, mothers, adolescents, people with disabilities) and experience an emergency situation (violence, neglect, exploitation, lack of accommodation food).

In my consultations with key humanitarian agencies, the general sentiment that emerged is that the food situation has improved, but the country still needs humanitarian (emergency) assistance, as there is still a shortfall.

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And there is a way the world both envisions food, the way the world writes about food and learns about food.

The food that contains cadmium is chronically poisoned food, which under normal circumstances will not lead to major food safety incidents.