Kraft and McDonald's make a lot of money. So legal costs or settlements won't affect earnings. I'm worried about changing consumer attitudes about food. Will people stop buying their favorite brand of cookies because of a lawsuit that says the product is unhealthy? |
Lack of energy means that it is much more difficult to produce fertilizer. It means that what mechanized agriculture there is doesn't have the energy required. |
My sense is that North Korea wants WFP to stay. They want to be sure that we are available for technical assistance, that we are available in case an emergency comes along, and they would like for us to be helpful in terms of development activities. |
Other humanitarian agencies in southern Somalia face the enormous challenge of reaching drought victims in remote and insecure areas. We urge leaders and rival militia to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage (of food aid) to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. |
People don't just need food. First of all they need shelter, blankets and medical assistance -- then food and clean water. |
Refugees in camps and remote settlements are extremely vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. They rely upon the generosity of their hosts and the international community for the most basic food and other items. |
Seduction but in a slightly medicinal way. |
Since our last appeal in December, we have received very little against the growing needs. We don't have enough for the 1.2 million people we are currently feeding, let alone the expected increase to 2.5 million or more in February. |
Since our last appeal in December, we have received very little, against the growing needs. |
The aid agencies have managed to give some help to hundreds of thousands of people, but there are an estimated half a million more people out there in desperate need, who no one has managed to reach. People don't just need food ? first of all they need shelter, blankets and medical assistance ? then food and clean water. |
The gentle, empty, haunting faces of the young prostitutes, in virginal white and vicarage embroidery. |
The good news is that the rains have been better this year. We will not see widespread famine. |
The government has concluded it no longer needs emergency humanitarian assistance. |
The gray, immense and unmistakably Central European sky.. air slightly perfumed with petrol and boiled potatoes. |
The humanitarian emergency insurance contract might, in the future, offer us a way of insuring against these massive losses before they spell destitution for millions of families. |