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UN warns over food aid rationing. Ration food aid: 配额食品援助
The world’s largest food aid, the world food program, has two big worries. First,after running away prices; they now can’t afford to buy enough to feed those already suffering over hunger. Second, more people are slipping into hunger, unable to buy, to pay the increasing prices.
Well, look at this, the price of wheat, around 6 dollars last Aug., the prices clime triply among 6 months, to carry the prices about 18 dollars. Take a look at corn, another basic for food is twelve years high. Or Soya, now selling at world markets, is all time high. All these rises adding up to a crisis. Pakistan is one country taking drastic measures, guarding, pressure subsidize wheat for distribution to 7 million households who otherwise would goes without.
I have 8 people to feed, said this man, and has to take time of work to cue for food.
But in regions of Africa, highlighted in red where hungry most killed. The world food program had budget of around 600 million pounds to pay for food and fuel worldwide in 2008. But the huge price arise has pushed that up to 850 million pounds. Now, the WFP is urging the donor governments, the US, the largest to fund the extra money.
What happened is to fill this cup, which is a typical cup, we give food to school children around the world, 20 million school children, now cost 40% more than it did in last June. This is the reality that hitting the food market around the world. But it is also hitting our programs, which directed to the worlds most vulnerable.
Why are these basic prices shooting up so fast? Partly because the success stories in the world. As more people, particularly in China, come out of poverty and can afford more food including meat. Demand for grain to feed far more animals as well as humans, keeps on claming. Then the arising demand to crops to produce bio-fuels, an alternative to oil, that takes land away from food production.
The United Nations has very come into stress. There is enough food to feed the world, but with the prices hitting up and more people can’t pay them, helping the hungry becomes an even greater issue for the whole world.
[ 本帖最后由 sammiez 于 2008-2-28 09:36 编辑 ] |