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This report aims to focus the attention of the world's leaders and opinion-makers on the problem of under-nourishment around the world and to spur development of innovative approaches to tackle it...

1. OVERVIEW The intense level of violence that followed the 30 August referendum resulted in a massive population displacement, both within and across the borders of East Timor. Food distribution and...

Press Release 99/78 Rome, 15 December 1999 -- Warning of a growing food crisis in strife-torn Somalia, a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report released today says some 1.6 million people...

INTRODUCTION This is the last of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid...

Special Relief Operations Service SIERRA LEONE / 2000 Appeal - UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal - FAO Agricultural Relief Component Amount: US$3 878 000 On 23 November 1999 the UN Office for the...

Special Relief Operations Service SOMALIA / 2000 Appeal - UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal - FAO Agricultural Relief Component Amount: US$2 540 000 After six consecutive years of poor harvests,...

OVERVIEW This report presents the findings of an FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to Georgia in the period 12-21 November 1999, which was fielded with logistical support of WFP. The aim of...

This report presents the findings of a Joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission. An FAO staff member visited the country in the period 8-12 November and was joined by in-country WFP...

CONTENTS To Our Readers AGRIC Committee Continues To Meet And Discuss Important Issues UNHCR Meets With Partners ICRC Assists Over 36000 Farming families CARE Provides Assistance To War-Affected...

During the two weeks of violence that followed the 30 August popular consultation in East Timor, more than 75 percent of the entire population was displaced. In addition, 70 percent of all private...

Sowing of the 2000 wheat crop is underway. The 1999 wheat production is estimated at 18 million tonnes, about 14 percent below last year and about 4 percent below average, due to the severe drought...