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Free market isn't helping us
Food riots are erupting all over the world. To prevent them and to help people afford the most basic of goods,... |
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Bush orders $200 million for emergency food relief
Washington - Responding aggressively to a worsening global food crisis, President Bush has ordered an estimated $200 million in emergency U.S. food assistance for global relief efforts and to help relieve political instability in some regions. |
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Runaway food costs for the poor finally get the attention they deserve
When I was in Mozambique in January, they were blocking streets with burning tires and over-turned cars to protest an increase of a few pennies in the 28-cent cost of a bus ride. One person was killed and scores were injured in clashes with policies, and there was also moderate property damage and disruption.
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Hunger threat looms over the world
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - Just recently the crisis of the world's financial markets seemed the worst headache of the world economy. But now the threat of the food crisis is mounting with every passing day. |
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DEVELOPING NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY PLANS
The 1995 Social Summit’s programme of action calls for “national poverty eradication plans”—preferablybeginning in 1996—to address “the structural causes of poverty”. These plans are to push for local, nationaland international actions to eradicate extreme povertyand substantially reduce overall poverty. Such plans, at the heart of national efforts to addresspoverty, help focus and coordinate activities and buildsupport. |
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Seed Development Programme
One of the major concerns of the Government of Mauritania is to increase the food self-sufficiency of the population. The most important priorities are to produce high-quality seed within the country, to enhance the quality and quantity of agricultural output and to reduce outlays in foreign exchange for the importation of seeds.
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A new anti-poverty remedy ?
At the end of the 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund announced a shift in the focus of their lending policies in Africa towards poverty reduction and invited public consultations to help define the strategy. Some hailed this as an innovative departure from the controversial macroeconomic policies the two institutions had previously emphasized in Africa.
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Mauritanian Refugees Go Home
Some 24,000 Mauritanians, who fled to Senegal nearly two decades ago after a long-standing border dispute escalated into ethnic violence, are set to start returning home within weeks under a United Nations-backed voluntary repatriation programme.
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