World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Tanzania has lifted a ban on grain exports and will allow traders to sell surplus maize to the U.N.'s food agency and drought-hit east African countries following a bumper harvest, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. (..) "President (Jakaya) Kikwete has said formal arrangements should be made so that traders can sell surplus food to neighbouring countries and even to the World Food Programme (WFP)," the Tanzanian president's office said in a statement.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday received dates valued at USD 764, 940 from the government of Saudi Arabia to feed 100,000 refugees in Tanzania.

Lack of food in some of primary schools in Arusha region was a major stumbling- block, which hindered performance of primary education within the region. (..) Since the 2000, the World Food Programe (WFP) has been providing food support to some primary schools in Arusha region.

Fresh water is increasingly becoming scarcer on the globe, setting the stage for a doomsday scenario in the next few decades. Access to water is at the centre of conflicts in some parts of the continent, and this serves to underscore the magnitude of the problem and its potential to slowly but steadily spiral out of control.Most of these conflicts are between pastoralists and small-scale farmers, as rightly observed by the World Food Programme.

Tanzania is staring at a food crisis in the coming months as it emerges that tonnes of food are being smuggled out to drought-stricken countries in the region despite falling harvests. (..) Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme, said the food crisis in East Africa has left an estimated 14 million people struggling to survive due to widespread poor and erratic rainfall, combined with rising food prices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.

Refugees living in Tanzanian camps have received a big boost from the government of Japan after it donated 370 metric tonnes of relief food valued at USD2m (..). The event attracted several dignitaries including Home Affairs ministry permanent secretary Mbarak Abdul Wakil and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) representative and country director Ronald Sibanda.

The United States will invest nearly $70 million in agricultural development and food security in Tanzania. (..) Tanzanian Prime Minster Mizengo Pinda announced that his government was committed to create a high-level nutrition steering committee led by him and including development partners and the civil society of Tanzania, such as (..) the World Food Program.

The World Food Programme (WFP) Tanzania has expanded its school meals programme threefold since last year, and now the number of primary schoolchildren receiving meals has reached 640,000 from 600,000 the previous year. Speaking to 'The Guardian' yesterday in Dar es Salaam, WFP head of programme Hae-Won Park said the expansion was a results of contributions received from donors and the people of Tanzania. “WFP is grateful for the contributions since without them the school-feeding programme would not be sustainable for a number of years,” she said.

THE Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has recorded outstanding improvement in school enrollment, attendance and overall students' performance for the past 10 years, thanks to its school meal programme. "The ministry has been working with the World Food Programme to provide nutritious meals to our most vulnerable children for over 10 years and we are happy to note that they are making a big impact to pupils while creating a market for farmers," (..).

World Food Programme (WFP) end-hunger Ambassador Reginald Mengi has said nations cannot succeed in poverty alleviation without waging a concerted fight against hunger. Speaking yesterday at the launch of `Walk the World 2011` in Dar es Salaam, Mengi said statistics indicated that one in seven children in Tanzania goes to bed hungry every night while a lot of food is thrown away because people cannot finish a plate of meal due to obesity.