But food aid is only one of the tools we have to respond in an emergency.
In-kind food aid peaked in 2000, when there were large surpluses and low prices for cereals.
Never far off the breadline at the best of times, Eritrea will need substantial food aid.
"It has become apparent that without swift food aid many people will die, " it warned.
United Nations and World Bank officials talk of a new deal for food aid.
The vessel, which was carrying food aid, was seized by the four pirates in April 2009.
Obviously, it's a concern, and particularly -- this is a ship containing food aid to Africa.
The U.S. on the same day announced plans to deliver food aid to North Korea.
There has also been money in the form of food aid and help to strengthen governance.
China says it has also provided tens of millions of dollars in food aid.
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The people negotiating the food aid were not the same as those launching the missile.
In drought years, many of their cows die and they subsist on food aid.
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And he said that in the meantime, those worst affected should get short-term food aid.
She pounds grain, food aid given by the U.N. to make her one daily meal.
It's just, I mean, virtually impossible to live without the food aid, you know.
UN's World Food Programme reckons that 3m-4m people will need food aid this year.
See "U.S. Says It Will Double Food Aid to North Korea, " Washington Post, 15 July 1997.
And since they already don't produce enough, we need to provide donor food aid from donor countries.
She says the food aid program is inefficient and, in fact, it may undermine local anti-poverty efforts.
The Maersk Alabama, which was carrying food aid, was seized by the four pirates in April 2009.
The food aid plan also may be expanded to other surplus commodities, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said.
Northern negotiators demanded over 1m tonnes of food aid as a precondition to joining the proposed conference.
British diplomats who last month visited Norilsk, an isolated northern mining town, were asked for food aid.
Despite having some of the most fertile land in Africa, Zimbabwe could need food aid this year.
WFP, Ethiopia will need at least another 2m tonnes of food aid to keep people alive next year.
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"WFP plans to deliver emergency food aid to Palestinians in need following recent insecurity and its consequences, " she said.
Huge shipments of food aid from America were all that stood between its swelling population and a terrible fate.
Today, more than half the world's food aid comes from the United States.
Here, on a slight rise in the north of the camp, the World Food Program is distributing food aid.
U.S. officials said they are insisting this time on having substantial oversight of the food aid, using international agencies.
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