You Are Here: Home » Posts tagged with "emergency food aid"
Over six million Ethiopians are in need of emergency food aid due to poor rains during the harvest. Ethiopia on Thursday appealed for 159,410 tonnes of emergency food aid to assist these people, which is worth approximately $121 million.
The appeal was...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez convened an extraordinary meeting of member nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) in Caracas early Wednesday morning to discuss the world food crisis and the political crisis in eastern Bolivia.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will double emergency food aid to meet a crisis sparked in several developing countries over sharply rising food prices. Lisa Bryant has more on Mr. Sarkozy’s remarks made at a major international...
Monday, April 14, 2008
Étonnez-moi, Mr. President!
Yesterday I had the temerity to suggest that the best strategy for the United States’ “War on Terror” would be grounded in major contributions to solving the global food crisis....