| GLOBAL: NGOs call for more funds, investment in agriculture |
 NEW YORK, 2 July 2008 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community is to urge the G8 leaders to fully fund immediate emergency aid and to invest in longer-term agricultural development in poorer nations to tackle the global food crisis.
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| GLOBAL: US farm bill "too little, too late" for developing world |
 NEW YORK, 1 July 2008 (IRIN) - New ground was broken in US attempts to break the link between foreign food aid and supporting its own farmers in a new farm bill, but for many, including the Bush-led administration, it was too little, too late.
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| GLOBAL: Jury still out over food impact of Midwest floods |
 NEW YORK, 27 June 2008 (IRIN) - The worst floods in the Midwest in 15 years have helped maize prices surge to unprecedented levels, leading to calls for Washington to release more conservation land for cultivation and to reduce minimum ethanol production requirements.
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| GLOBAL: Killer kickbacks - corruption in water sector affects millions |
 NAIROBI, 26 June 2008 (IRIN) - Corruption is one of the main causes of a global crisis that deprives more than a billion people of access to safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion of access to sanitation systems, according to a new report by Transparency International.
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| LEBANON: Aid agencies grapple with coordination issues |
 BEIRUT, 24 June 2008 (IRIN) - As the UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNRWA appeals for US$445 million for three years of reconstruction and recovery in and around Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, a mixed picture of aid agency coordination has emerged from interviews with key players.
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| LEBANON: UNRWA “not satisfied” with pace of reconstruction in Palestinian camp |
 BEIRUT, 22 June 2008 (IRIN) - One year on since the fighting between Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army destroyed most of the northern Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp and displaced up to 40,000 of its residents, the pace of reconstruction remains grindingly slow.
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| LEBANON: Few rights, low pay for 200,000 migrant domestic workers |
 BEIRUT, 22 June 2008 (IRIN) - Loud screams break the quiet of a Beirut neighbourhood in the early hours of Sunday 15 June: It’s Angelique, a 26-year-old domestic worker from Congo, crying for the police as she runs to the balcony. From inside the apartment, a man’s voice yells her name, swearing in Arabic and French. There are the sounds of fists and slaps and more screams, before all falls silent.
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| LEBANON: “Lost generation” of Iraqi refugee children |
 BEIRUT, 19 June 2008 (IRIN) - Of the 10 million refugees worldwide, half are children, estimates UK-based World Vision - children who will grow up as a “lost generation” unless more is done to address their needs.
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| GLOBAL: WFP goes for a makeover |
 JOHANNESBURG, 18 June 2008 (IRIN) - The work of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is no longer going to be only about delivering food, the former "food aid agency" announced in its new strategy for the next three years (2008-2011); it would now bill itself as a "food assistance agency".
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| LEBANON: Refugee children chronicle life in camps |
 BEIRUT, 15 June 2008 (IRIN) - A photograph of the sea, perfectly framed by the ragged window of a gutted building, illustrates the contrasts of Lebanon. Hanging in Medina Theatre as part of an exhibition in Beirut's fashionable Hamra district, it could easily be the work of a professional.
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