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Buying local food is cheaper but not always easier

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:33:00 +0200

Buying food aid closer to where it is needed is cheaper and saves time, says a new US government report, but weak local markets and a lack of reliable suppliers can be problematic.
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UNICEF feels the pinch of the food price crisis

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:02:00 +0200

As Ethiopia struggled with high food prices and a lack of relief aid in 2008, the UN children's agency, UNICEF, initiated one of the biggest responses to fight severe malnutrition ever undertaken.
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Kenya: Food shortages threaten adherence to antiretrovirals

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:46:00 +0200

Makueni District Hospital in eastern Kenya has recorded a significant drop in the weight of several of its HIV-positive patients in the past three months, which nutritionists ascribe to severe food shortages across much of the country.
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Somalia: Three teaspoons a day to keep starvation at bay?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:49:00 +0200

Ready-to-eat blended food has revolutionised the treatment of children who are acutely malnourished. In a pilot project, the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) will use a similar product not to treat, but to prevent malnutrition in conflict- and drought-ridden Somalia.
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Cote d'Ivoire: “Alarming” malnutrition in north

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:13:00 +0200

In Côte d'Ivoire government health officials and aid agencies are launching emergency feeding and special nutritional training in the north to respond to what nutrition experts call “alarming” malnutrition levels.
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Malnutrition, West Africa's steady killer

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:44:00 +0200

The European Commission (EC) is ready to increase its aid to fight malnutrition in Burkina Faso if current EC nutrition projects prove to be "success stories," said its humanitarian chief Louis Michel.
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Zimbabwe: Wild fruits instead of food aid

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:07:00 +0200

During the nearly three months that nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe were banned from operating by President Robert Mugabe's government, people desperate for food foraged for wild fruits to survive, in some cases with tragic consequences.
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Djibouti: Access to food halved

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0200

Access to food in Djibouti has been cut by more than 50 percent because of reduced availability and rising prices, according to a humanitarian official.
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GLOBAL: High food prices put pressure on HIV programmes

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:04:00 +0200

Steadily increasing prices could lead to a lack of affordable and nourishing food, endangering the lives of people living with HIV in the developing world, experts have said.
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Horn of Africa: 'Urban poor the new face of hunger'

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:24:00 +0200

The urban poor in the Horn of Africa are the new face of hunger in a region where up to 14.6 million people now require humanitarian assistance due to poor rains, high food and fuel prices, conflict, animal disease, inflation and poverty.
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