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In-Depth: Food Crisis: Status and Impacts

Global food crisis focus in Madrid

- Food aid must change to suit children
- Talks and more talks about food
- Calls to reform Food Aid Convention
- Splitting the food bill in Madrid

Asia Features

AFGHANISTAN: Drop in fuel, food prices raises hope for food insecure

LAOS: Breeding livestock to nurture livelihoods

NEPAL: Building a food bridge to survive the lean times

AFGHANISTAN: Urgent need to pre-position food aid

Middle East Features

SYRIA: Rice import snag leaves some Iraqi refugees short

SYRIA: Bread subsidies under threat as drought hits wheat production

ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza fuel, cooking gas shortages beginning to bite

YEMEN: Soaring food prices force more people below poverty line - WFP

Africa Features

AFRICA: Tractored out by “land grabs”?

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide

NIGERIA: Food stocks low, prices high, despite good harvest

WEST AFRICA: Do high food prices warrant a cash response?

CAMEROON: Life in Douala, one of the world’s most expensive cities

Food Crisis Q & A

Why everything costs more

Hear our Voices

KENYA: Agnes Ekelan, "I can only eat if I sell firewood"

more...

Photogallery

PHILIPPINES: Rice shortage hits poor

Links and References

ReliefWeb Food crisis
The Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force
Food and Agriculture Organisation
World Bank
Overseas Development Institute
Famine Early Warning Systems Network
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
World Food Programme
BBC

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Less than 10 percent of Lesotho's barren, mountainous land is a arable

LESOTHO: A mountain of challenges

JOHANNESBURG, 6 November 2009 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overhaul the approach, aid agencies say.

WFP generally only ships and provides food in crisis situations like civil conflicts and natural disasters. Programmes sometimes linger on after the emergency has passed, when food aid used is to help communities rebuild, but the goal is usually to move out. full report

FRONTLINE REPORTS

Increased hunger

GUINEA: Food prices climb amid unrest
PAKISTAN: Will land leases worsen hunger at home?

G8's historic shift needs applause

By Christopher Barrett
The announcement by President Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders of a US$20 billion three-year investment in developing-country agriculture marks a historic shift that merits widespread applause.
full report

Rising aid costs

BURKINA FASO: WFP expands food voucher distribution
GLOBAL: Winds of change in US food aid policy?

Health affected

AFGHANISTAN: Food aid not reaching most vulnerable women, children
CONGO: Thousands to benefit in food and nutrition project

Reduced growth

GLOBAL: Economic slowdown to push 100m into poverty
INDONESIA: Poor hit hard as fuel prices rise

Threat of unrest

COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest
GUINEA-BISSAU: Soaring prices could trigger social conflict

Slideshow

Philippines: Rice shortage hits poor

Government intervention

GLOBAL: We need another Green Revolution
LESOTHO: A little money goes a long way

Opportunities?

GLOBAL: Improved farming rather than more food aid?
AFRICA: Helping small farmers feed a continent

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