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UN "buying local" for food aid program.(United Nations World Food Programme buys food for the program from developing countries)

Publication: World Watch
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Last year, the world's largest humanitarian organization bought a record 80 percent of its food aid from poorer nations. In what it termed a "win-win" situation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) purchased a total of 2.1 million tons of food, valued at more than US$760 million, 69...

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...from developing countries worldwide.

"Local purchases create win-win solutions to hunger," said WFP executive director Josette Sheeran. "In an era of soaring food prices--which...

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