The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is reporting a $257 million shortage in funding for its mission in Afghanistan.
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U.S. Wants Change in Yemen, But Where Is the food?
Hungry people do not make for a smooth political process in Yemen, or any country.
Read More »For Yemen There Is No Alternative To Peace
For Yemen there is no real alternative to peace. This country has had enough conflict
Read More »Mauritania School Feeding Suspended, WFP Seeks Interim Aid
The WFP Mauritania staff is looking for a stopgap measure to provide meals the rest of the school year.
Read More »Afghanistan: Child Centers Have No Funding for Food
The Aschiana Foundation is reporting that two of its child centers in Afghanistan are out of funding for food
Read More »Tajikistan: The Struggle to Build National School Feeding
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is helping Tajikistan build a national school feeding program.
Read More »Protests in Food-Insecure Yemen
If these food programs remain without funding, it will put extra pressure on millions of Yemenis.
Read More »Like Egypt, Yemen Suffers from High Food Prices
My letter in the New York Times highlighted the plight of the hunger relief mission in Yemen.
Read More »Book Review: She Was Aye Workin’: Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Helen Clark and Elizabeth Carnegie
Women by hard labour and careful calculation held together lives that today we'd consider near impossible.
Read More »Beyond Egypt: Global Food Crisis Top Priority for Congress
Food has now risen to foreign policy priority #1.
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