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17 November 2010

WFP to launch ground-breaking operation to help TB patients

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will launch an important new phase of life-saving food assistance to Tuberculosis (TB) patients in Tajikistan, along with their family members, with the goal of building on past successes in increasing cure rates and lowering death rates from the disease, according to the WFP CO in Tajikistan.

Asia Plus (Tajikistan)

29 October 2010

A DANGEROUS MYOPIA

It is lamentable that the deep and persistent economic woes in the U.S. and Europe are breeding a certain dangerous myopia in international development affairs. “Americans are more resolute in their desire to put their own house in order,” notes the Chicago Council’s report on its fascinating 2010 national survey of American public opinion. It is very aptly titled, “Constrained Internationalism: Adapting to New Realities.”

Global Food for Thought

25 October 2010

Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs

Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods.

The Guardian

25 October 2010

Six casualties of rising food prices

To outsiders it is just another vegetable. To South Koreans, the long-leafed cabbage is part of the national identity as the most common staple ingredient of kimchi, the spicy pickled vegetable dish that accompanies every meal. But a frosty spring and hot summer followed by autumn floods ruined this year's crop and caused prices to rise between three- and fivefold – though some whisper darkly that hoarders have contributed to the problem.

The Guardian

14 October 2010

Aid: Idea of self-help starts to gain momentum

The most overworked cliché of a decades-old development debate has been the Taoist saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish you feed him for life. Frequently cited by leaders of the developed world to underline their commitment to helping the world’s poor help themselves, the dictum was nevertheless honoured more in the breach than the observance in a global aid system that relied heavily on handouts to the hungry in times of crisis.

Financial Times