In Ethiopia, for example, farmers receive cash and food in exchange for work on community projects through the government-led Productive Safety Nets Program, which both the U.S. and the UK support.
In addition to providing food for those that work in garden, HABESHA partners with organizations such as the Atlanta Community Food Bank and the MLK Senior Center to provide food from the garden to the hungry and elders in the community.
That is best done by distributing cash, not food by supporting (sometimes inventing) social-protection programmes and food-for-work schemes for the poor.
This helped the new ideas to achieve recognition and to spread, and it also made tools and funds available (in the form of food-for-work).
Countries without social-protection systems, argues Simon Maxwell of Britain's Overseas Development Institute, will depend on food aid, food-for-work and cash-for-work programmes and it is not clear how quickly these can be scaled up.
The main requirements are long-term agricultural improvements as well as institutions and safety-nets to respond to food crises fast cash-for-work programmes, for instance, or food vouchers to stop people selling their animals out of desperation.
"We want food to be safe, but we've got to make food safety regulations work for both the consumer and the farmers so they can afford to sell it, " Fahy said.
When key workers fall ill or get afraid and low paid workers simply do not turn up for work food stores will have empty shelves, close and be looted, gas pumps will be dry and prescription drugs not delivered.
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Make those incarcerated in jails work for food and privileges.
However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.
She has cut back spending for entertainment and organic food, and continues to work three days a week as an office manager for an Internet security company.
You base your argument on the premise that the oil-for-food programme does not work.
Now some will say that if people are not willing to work for their food, then they should pay the consequences.
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It is also a victory for all the grass roots organizations and activists who work so hard to improve access to healthy food for everyone.
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Dr Colin McClung, ex-IRI, was co-recipient of the World Food prize in 2006 for this soil fertility work.
The relief and development organization I work with, Food for the Hungry, conducted an assessment this week with these very refugees to determine a way to respond.
Scientists have suggested that food tastes better when you have to work for it.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
The government gives many reasons for the exodus but nothing enrages camp inhabitants more than the oft-repeated line that they left for the free food and opportunity to shirk work.
While it does appear to be true that most households receiving benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP is the new name for food stamps) are out of the work force, a significant fraction do have earnings and most of the rest are poor elderly or disabled households or single parents with children.
He was doing backbreaking work and hated it, but one co-worker's comment gave him food for thought: There were so many other jobs out there, you could conceivably work at a different one every day for of the rest of your life.
The machines will be put to work improving rural roads to ensure food produced for sale gets to market quicker.
To keep the lights on, Venture Strategy, as Gallanter called the firm, did consulting work for clients like Instill, an online food service company.
Democrats tend to favor some direct cash infusions to low- and middle-income Americans in the form of tax rebates, by extending jobless benefits for those out of work, and by making food stamps more available.
He says he flies in from Miami every fortnight, and he describes himself as one of a large number of couriers, known as "mules", who work for agencies sending everything from money to food to Cuba - mostly from the United States.
Alec Shelbrooke said the card could be provided to out-of-work people on benefits to pay for travel, food, clothing, energy and housing.
To keep the lights on, Venture Strategy, as Gallanter called the firm, did consulting work for such clients as Instill, an online food service company.
Thomlinson, who was working for the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, found the work distressing.
But extra mouths mean less food to go round, so many fostered children are made to work for their keep.
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