In February 1988, the government hiked food prices by 40 .

Food commodities were shipped to Monrovia or San Pedro (Côte d apos Ivoire).

This project is expected to reduce considerably the delivery time for food and non food items.

Basic food staples are more expensive than in the European capitals.

31. In January 1994, the Chief Minister stated that there had been a further decrease in food imports as farmers responded to the efforts by the Government to increase the availability of locally produced foods.

Also as a result of these deteriorating socio economic conditions, more basic food commodities had to be distributed and relief and social services intensified for the most disadvantaged Palestinian refugees to alleviate their suffering and to facilitate their self reliance.

Some believe that the crisis was amplified by speculative trading in commodity futures, which have become an integral part of food markets.

At least another 40,000 metric tons of food commodities were, therefore, still required.

The World Food Programme (WFP) will provide basic food commodities in accordance with the global Memorandum of Understanding between WFP and UNHCR.

Food commodities provided were rice, oil, beans and corn soy blend for supplementary feeding to vulnerable groups.

There are three main reasons to believe that speculation was not the main driver of the recent food price surge

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.

Nearly three quarters of the required food commodities had been pledged by September 1994.

Local purchasing of food commodities by the donor community should be adopted so as to protect local markets from excessive food aid and to redistribute products from surplus to deficit areas.

Since then, the Federation and national societies have been concentrating their activities on refugee camp management, including provision of water, sanitation and health services, plus the purchase and distribution of basic food and non food items.

In 1977, many rose to oppose an end to food and other consumer subsidies in 1986, poorly paid security forces went on a rampage.

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76. Assistance was also provided in the area of commodity production, diversification and marketing, including help in improving the management of food grain imports.

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The interventions build on commodities and the related secondary agro processing industries with emphasis on food (e.g. fish, meat, dairy, vegetable oils) and non food (wood and non wood forest products, textiles and garments, leather and skins) products.

Rich and aging countries may finally become promoters, rather than opponents, of free trade in food.

Severe shortages in the basic food supply had had an impact on women who were forced to queue for long hours to purchase basic commodities.

WFP provides food commodities while UNHCR provided one time emergency assistance upon their arrival in 1993.

Of course, it is not just oil prices that are high, but all commodity prices, from metals to food to lumber.

GENEVA The recent sharp spike in food prices and growing concerns about food security have sparked anxiety worldwide.

Since mid December 2004, the World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed some 871 tons of food commodities to 288,993 beneficiaries.

Food hygiene

Export of goods, FOB Import of goods, FOB Trade balance

We ingest nutrients. We excrete nutrients as well.

While not a cause of price volatility, speculation on derivatives of essential food commodities significantly worsens it.

Thus, soaring food and fuel prices are likely to upset efforts by governments to improve income distribution and social cohesion.

In addition, WFP has injected over 10 million into the economies of Gaza and the West Bank, by local purchases of wheat flour, olive oil and other food commodities.

UNHCR invested heavily in emergency preparedness for Iraq, with the bulk of the expenditure relating to the deployment of staff and the procurement of non food items and assets.

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

So called low fat diets, so called low carb diets these are not solutions.

While food prices initially showed greater resilience, they have fallen more sharply than those of other commodities over the past year.

In addition to the increased tensions in the camp, the blockade is continuing to bring additional hardship for the internally displaced persons, especially given the lack of fresh food commodities and the missed economic opportunities.

WFP began addressing its humanitarian access problems to Gaza through purchasing 93 per cent of its food commodities locally within the Strip.

Severe shortages of food and medical supplies could lead to famine in the country prices of basic food commodities had risen sharply.

Analysis of food samples

Taboos, including food taboos

International food aid

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Food biotechnology