Area of Focus: Food Aid

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Jun 06, 2007

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Food Aid

Foreign aid programs are created during food crises and for longer-term development of food security. During food crises, aid programs replace protein losses (usually with dried milk), carbohydrate losses (usually with grains), try to encourage destocking, and find alternative sources of incomes for victims of famine. In some cases, the lack of fuelwood limits the amount of food that can be cooked. Longer-term food security starts with an understanding of malnutrition and its connection to prevalent diseases.

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EuronAid is an operational European network of NGOs active in the field of Food Aid, Food Security and Emergency Relief.

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Salvation Farms is a not for profit, citizen-based project located in Wolcott, Vermont. Our mission is to harvest excess farm produce, making it available to Vermonters in need.

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Friends of the World Food Program Friends of WFP mission is to increase awareness about global hunger issues; mobilize support for hunger relief programs and activities; and generate resources for WFP operations and other activities that alleviate hunger.

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education, youth, food, nutrition, schools, food labeling, knowledge, healthy food choices, information, understanding food information, terminology, balanced food intake, food contents disclosure, additives, vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, protein, dairy, fruit, vegetables, food autonomy, local agriculture, slow food

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Food Aid or Hidden Dumping is a paper where in a world prone to natural and human disasters, and 850 million people still suffer from hunger, food aid can sometimes be a crucial lifeline. However, food aid has also been used for less noble aims, including to dump surplus production and promote donor country exports.

U.S. Food Aid, Time to Get It Right considers food security, setting the context in which food aid should operate.

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