The Case Against Emergency Food Aid

Without naval escorts, food aid will not get to Somalia.

Food assistance reached a record number of people, approximately 1.7 million, during the month of February.

In total, 17 million was allocated through April 2005 in cash assistance and food aid.

3. Calls upon the international community to respond in a timely manner to the joint 2005 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, covering food and non food needs

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

Bearing in mind the joint 2005 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, to respond to the food and non food requirements of households in need so as to prevent the worsening of the current humanitarian crisis,

While resources for emergency food needs for the remainder of the year have already been met, the response to the non food sector remains a concern.

UNRWA also continues to provide emergency support to Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, where poverty rates are as high as 70 per cent.

Bearing in mind the joint 2004 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, to respond to the food and non food requirements of households in need so as to prevent the worsening of the current humanitarian crisis,

Bearing in mind the joint 2005 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, to respond to the food and non food requirements of households in need so as to prevent the worsening of the current humanitarian crisis,

Bearing in mind the joint 2005 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, to respond to the food and non food requirements of households in need so as to prevent the worsening of the current humanitarian crisis,

Instead of needing food assistance, many of the farm families were able to cope with the harsh weather and look forward to a harvest.

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.

Urges Member States to set up people's committees to collect donations to support the Intifada and provide urgent assistance to the Palestinian people in this emergency situation.

The statistics say that 80 of Gaza s population is dependent on UN food aid. The youth unemployment rate is 65 .

International donors led by the United States initiated shipments of food through the World Food Program in 1997 to combat the famine.

The immediate relief provided by the State of Qatar reflects the spirit of solidarity and fraternity that binds us with the peoples of the stricken countries.

Revealingly, the Fund, not the European Union, has taken the lead in negotiating emergency assistance packages for Hungary and Latvia.

Kal writes that the severe floods in Mauritania have cut off communication between many cities, impeding the transport of critical food supplies.

It would include a set of principles, such as this fundamental one During a crisis, emergency assistance should be afforded to citizens and migrants alike, without discrimination.

In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

Last but not least, it would be only fair not to mention noble and right for the enormous volume of emergency assistance provided and pledged to the affected countries not to be subtracted from the development assistance commitments made by major world donors before the disaster struck.

Several delegations expressed concern with regard to the possibility that a State might not apply the draft protocol to personnel who provided emergency assistance to that State in the event of natural disasters.

At a time when the need for food assistance is particularly high, some governments have withdrawn food subsidies and others have scaled back subsidies for agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides, hindering local food production.

Some countries have opened their markets to imports others have closed them. Many became dependent on food aid, while some acted on the conviction that eradicating hunger is merely a matter of fostering GDP growth.

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

When drought returned this year, these investments paid off. Instead of needing food assistance, many of the farm families were able to cope with the harsh weather and look forward to a harvest.

In past years, South Korea has been the primary external source of food, through either direct food assistance (for the immediate problem) or deliveries of fertilizer.

Concern has already launched a response, including an innovative program using mobile phone technology and text messages to distribute emergency cash to the most vulnerable women in 160 villages.

(Afghanistan) emergency medical aid emergency educational assistance in Herat province.

I would like to express sincere gratitude and appreciation to all those countries and organizations that so rapidly provided emergency assistance to the affected States and their peoples.

Several members of humanitarian agencies whom I met indicated that this period should still be seen as the phase of humanitarian assistance and that there is a continuing need for food aid to help the population.

(w) Contingent liabilities

In 2004, the Executive Board approved a new policy, Building Country and Regional Capacities , which recognizes that WFP is not a technical agency but that it can nevertheless share know how with countries and facilitate learning between countries on reducing hunger through food assistance.

We applaud the leading role of the affected countries in addressing this disaster, and we recognize the role of the United Nations in assisting the affected countries' coordination of international assistance in the emergency relief phase.

At the same time, it urged the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli Government to remove its restrictions on the movement of UNRWA staff so that the Agency would be able to furnish emergency humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people and carry out its regular programmes.

Food assistance also reached 25,000 beneficiaries through various nutrition programmes, including those for maternal and child health, supplementary and therapeutic feeding and people living with HIV and AIDS.

Emergency safeguard measures

Casual vacancies 100 14.

Food hygiene

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

A million tons of Indian food assistance provides 100 grams of high protein biscuits to two million of Afghanistan s six million schoolchildren, a third of whom are girls.

Unarmed observers could also help to ensure that emergency international food assistance, on which much of Zimbabwe s population now depends for survival, is distributed equitably, without regard to the political leanings of those requiring it.

Nutrition services services that help address the nutritional needs of children that include identifying feeding skills, feeding problems, food habits, and food preferences.