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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "They can show that not only do they have the means to produce but a market to sell it." Gates told reporters on Wednesday that he aimed to "transform the way small holders are able to get to market." And WFP executive director Josette Sheeran called it "a revolution in food...
...sorghum crop is failing. Armed cattle rustlers roam the region, making the roads too dangerous for most travel. Commercial transporters refuse to haul in WFP goods, despite escorts from Uganda's national army. Yet the biggest challenge the Rome-based agency has ever faced, executive director Josette Sheeran announced in April, came this year: the exploding price of food...
...What we're seeing is that people living under $2 a day are giving up health care and education," says Sheeran. "Those living on under $1 a day are giving up protein once a week or vegetables." And those on 50¢ a day or less, like the people of Karamoja, are simply cutting out meals. Men and women say they were eating at most once a day before WFP came with its meager rations. "We've just been surviving selling firewood and burning [wood to make] charcoal," says Cecelia Amaitukei, a Lokali food-aid recipient...
...would say over the medium to long term, I am an optimist," Sheeran says in London, "because the world knows how to grow enough food." That may be so. But food aid is not devoid of controversy. On the one hand, of course, no one wants to see people starve. At the hospital where James Lemukol is superintendent, a mother cradles her 3-year-old son; he's always been too weak to learn to stand. Others arrive so swollen - their bellies distended and extremities bloated from the fluid that leaks out of weakened blood vessels - that medical staff have...
...short term, the WFP has issued an emergency appeal to the world's governments, urging them to cover its substantial budget shortfall. Britain, Germany and Spain have already pledged extra funds, and Sheeran says she is hopeful Japan, Canada and the U.S. will approve new donations as well. What's more, Sheeran says, "I would say over the medium to long term I am an optimist because the world knows how to grow enough food." The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that cereal production will once again increase in 2008, and bring at least a modest reduction in food...