Food aid: food funds for southern Africa fall.A decrease in donor funds for its feeding schemes has forced the World Food Programme (WFP WFP World Food Programme (United Nations) WFP Windows File Protection (Microsoft) WFP Water for People (international humanitarian organization) WFP Winnipeg Free Press ) to halve its cereal ration in the region. Hardest hit is Zimbabwe where, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. WFP spokesman Mike Huggins, the number of Zimbabweans needing food aid will increase to 4m but only some 2m will receive emergency feeding. Reasons for the fall in food aid are said to be a steady loss of interest by developed nations and international institutions in southern Africa, and the diversion of emergency funds for reconstruction in Afghanistan After more than two decades of conflict, the Reconstruction of Afghanistan has begun, though it continues to hampered by continuing conflict. There are more than 14,000 reconstruction projects under way in Afghanistan, such as the Kajaki Dam. and Iraq. Exacerbating the situation is the prediction by meteorological me·te·or·ol·o·gy n. The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions. [French météorologie, from Greek experts that current dry conditions will worsen into drought in 2004. |
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