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WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
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Congo: School Meals Help Families Make Ends Meet
A teacher and mother of three, Mrs Kambere Sirivahani knows first-hand the effect WFP school meals can have on a schoolroom. She's seen her own swell with lively students who now have the strength to concentrate on school work. Back at home, families like hers finally have a chance to get ahead.
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UN food agency warns Yemen funds drying up
The UN food aid agency warned on Tuesday that crucial supplies for Yemen were running out because of a lack of international funding, as it cut remaining food rations by half. World Food Programme spokeswoman Emilia Casella said 3.4 million Yemenis needed food aid. (..) "Due to lack of funding, the WFP has been forced to cut rations by half," Casella told journalists.
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Fighting hunger: law of the land
This piece contends that legislation is crucial to embedding global food security as an official part of U.S. development policy, as it is necessary to secure long-term support and funding because agriculture and food systems are built over time through investments across many sectors of a country’s economy.
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Somali refugees strain on neighbours' resources
Thousands of Somalis fleeing the violence in their homeland are expected to cross into neighbouring countries this year where they will add to already overcrowded and under-resourced conditions in camps (..). A coalition of UN agencies, including the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have supported camp education and supplied aid, but work is hampered by security constraints and lack of resources.
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Aid Shortfall Imperils Yemen Peace
The U.N. food aid agency says a lack of funds is forcing it to cut rations for people driven from their homes by fighting in northern Yemen, endangering a fragile ceasefire between rebels and the government.(..)"WFP is really concerned about the negative impact this cut is likely to have on the ceasefire in the north and about the overall stability in the country this severe shortage of food aid might (affect)," Yemen director Gian Carlo Cirri told AlertNet.
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Newsletter Ambiente&Conflitti - Febbraio 2017
Survival: La lotta contro il riscaldamento globale devasta i popoli indigeni 
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