food aid

collocation in English

meanings of foodand

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food
noun[ C or U ]
uk /fuːd/ us /fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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Examples of food aid

food aid
Reducing foodaid has often been seen as a means of freeing up the displaced for work.
This left an annual food deficit of 14 % (which increases to 24 % if one excludes the 10 % foodaid provided as relief assistance).
Still, food security is threatened by frequent droughts and the majority of the population are net buyers of food who regularly receive foodaid.
They are careful to point out where information is lacking, for instance over the impact of official foodaid during the famine.
In other words, rather than representing around 10 % of annual food needs, foodaid may only account for 5 % or less.
One reason was that the sheer shock at seeing the starving survivors led the liberators to prioritizing foodaid.
Most of them are also extremely vulnerable in terms of food security, with as many as two-thirds of them dependent on (free) foodaid. 11.
While about 10 % of annual food requirement is currently met by foodaid, it cannot be assumed that this amount actually reaches the displaced.
Examples of this collateral effect are examined in relation to share-cropping, foodaid, debt and asset stripping.
In the past, this debt has been repaid as soon as a foodaid delivery has been made to the displaced settlement.
Although the close association between soil conservation and foodaid has declined in more recent times, the prominence of the soil conservation debate remains.
Programme 2488 turned out to be one of the largest foodaid programmes in history.
For those conducting this survey, which is a regular undertaking to help assess foodaid requirements, such a deficit is not seen as a concern in itself.
Foodaid is now only provided for a few months during the pre-harvest lean season.
But this policy has dramatically affected the lives of a population that is usually self-sufficient but is now forced to depend on foodaid and to live in miserable conditions.
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