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White House mulls cash for new food aidThe White House may soon propose the biggest change in US food aid since the programmes were created during the Cold War - donating cash for hunger relief instead of shipping American-grown food to global trouble spots, say farm groups and chari More… |
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TNT Express airlifts aid for SomaliaTNT Express has uplifted 45 tons of emergency food aid to Nairobi, Kenya, to help the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) feed thousands of children in neighboring Somalia. A Boeing 767 aircraft containing more than 3,000 boxes of s More… |
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G8 may back new approach to food aidThe Group of Eight rich nations is expected to back a US proposal next week that would seek a more "coordinated approach" to food aid and development, a top US official said. Michael Froman, US deputy national security adviser for internat More… |
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Cost of food aid soars as global need risesA "perfect storm" of drought, conflict and rising costs has increased the ranks of the chronically hungry by millions of people. This has forced aid workers to find and fund longer-term solutions to the food crisis. As the world ma More… |
