Presenting assessment of prospects for global food security over the next quarter century, this report reviews recent events that have significantly influenced food security as well as key emerging issues that security in the coming years.

In addition, the report analyses the implications of these recent events and emerging issues for agricultural research and food policy reform in developing countries.

The report draws upon revised and updated information from IFPRI's global food model, which projects food demand, supply, and trade to the year 2020.

The Mine Ban Treaty is the international agreement that bans antipersonnel landmines. Sometimes referred to as the Ottawa Convention, its official title is: The 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer or Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.

The treaty is the most comprehensive international instrument for ridding the world of the scourge of antipersonnel mines. It deals with everything from mine use, production and trade, to victim assistance, mine clearance and stockpile destruction.

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to suggest on Monday that the Security
Council raise the amount of oil Iraq can sell to buy supplies for its people, but without providing a figure on how much the
increase should be, U.N. officials who read his report said.

Annan, U.N. aid agencies and Iraqi officials all say the $2 billion worth of oil that Baghdad is currently allowed to sell over six
months to buy food and medicine for its people is inadequate.

But diplomats said the 15-member Security

UNDP FLASH!
UNDP SUPPORTING EMERGENCY EFFORTS IN ECUADOR AND ETHIOPIA FOLLOWING FLOODS.

UNDP is providing funding and technical assistance to help the Governments of Ecuador and Ethiopia respond to massive destruction in their countries brought on by heavy flooding that is being attributed to El Niño. In the coastal region of Ecuador, some 35,000 people are estimated to be affected by the flooding, which has destroyed homes, banana plantations and forced the closure of roads and bridges. In Ethiopia, some 8,000 people have been displaced, 300 people have died and large crop

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Human Rights Watch Urges Donors to Link Aid to DRC to Human Rights (December 1, 1997) - As the World Bank prepares

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INTERNATIONAL APPEAL

Background

1. The current short rains season in Kenya has seen exceptionally heavy rainfall, in many areas the most intense in 40 years. The worst-affected districts are in Coast Province (Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, Malindi, Tana River), North Eastern Province (Garissa, Mandera, Wajir) and Eastern Province (Moyale, Marsabit). Additionally, heavy rains have been experienced elsewhere.

2. Surface transport links to the North East and to the Tana River delta have been rendered impassable with the