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2007 Shows Record Food Purchases By WFP In Developing Countries
A record 80 percent of the food purchased for cash last year by
the
world's largest humanitarian organisation - a total of 2.1 million metric
tons valued at more than US$760 million - was bought in developing
countries from Afghanistan to Zambia.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it had
bought food in 69 developing countries, with the largest supplier being
Uganda, where WFP procured 210,000 tons, enough to provide food to some
3.4
million people for one year.
"Local purchases create win-win solutions to hunger. In an era of soaring
food prices - which hit hardest those already hungry - such solutions are
more critical than ever," said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran, who
will speak on local procurement, rising food prices and other issues at
this week's meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We
are now not only feeding hungry people, but helping to develop sustainable
solutions to hunger."
Heads of state, government and leading members of the international
business community are gathering in Davos against a background of soaring
commodity and fuel prices, which have a major impact on WFP's ability to
deliver food to the hungry.
One way that WFP is able to offset some of these price rises is to buy
food
on local markets in developing countries, where prices are sometimes lower
and which are located closer to areas where WFP distributes food. As food
prices rise, helping to support local markets and to keep food affordable
to the most vulnerable becomes ever more important.
Much of the food that WFP buys in developing countries is distributed
either locally - in the same country where it was purchased - or
regionally, thus keeping transport costs to a minimum. The policy is to
buy
locally when and where there is an abundance and avoid local markets at
times of scarcity, so as not to distort markets.
The Ugandan 2007 food purchase was valued at US$55 million, out of a total
of more than US$1 billion WFP spent on food in domestic markets in Africa
between 2001 and 2007.
WFP is currently planning to expand its food procurement activities so
they
better support sustainable crop production and help address the root
causes
of hunger. WFP will purchase more food directly from low income farmers
and farmers' groups, as a partner in agriculture and market development in
countries where WFP has operations. This will help reduce the risks
farmers
face from uncertain markets, boost incomes and encourage investment in
technologies and practices which increase and improve food production.
The aim is for agricultural markets in Africa to develop in such a way
that
by 2015, more of Africa's low-income farmers - the majority of whom are
women - will produce large surpluses of food, sell them at a fair price
and
earn sufficient incomes to help them pull themselves and their dependants
out of poverty.
"Buying 'local' helps provide more income for small-scale farmers, while
saving money for WFP," Sheeran said.
http://www.wfp.org
2007 aratã record achiziþii de produse alimentare în þãrile în curs de dezvoltare WFP - 2007 Shows Record Food Purchases By WFP In Developing Countries - articole medicale engleza - startsanatate