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G8 / FOOD SECURITY

As leaders at the G8 summit in L'Aquila gather to discuss global food security, the World Food Programme (WFP) is urging a twin-track approach to food security, supporting long-term agricultural production with continued support for immediate hunger assistance. WFP

Duration:02:25Date:10 July 2009

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ECONOMIC CONDITIONS,12.01.00, FOOD INDUSTRY, United Nations World Food Programme

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STORY: G8 / FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 2.25
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: JUNE 2009 / FILE

FILE – WFP - JANUARY 2009, SOMALIA

1. Various shots, NATO Naval escorts

FILE – WFP – 4 DECEMBER 2009, MERKA BEACH PORT, SOMALIA

2. Various shots, men off loading bags of food

FILE – WFP – 23 JUNE 2009, EL BARDE, SOMALIA

3. Med shot, woman filling cup with rice 
4. Close up, mother and child

FILE – WHP – 10 MAY 2009, MINGORA, SWAT DISTRICT, PAKISTAN

5. Various shots, displaced persons on the move

FILE – WHP – 3 JUNE 2009, PIRPAI, NOWSHERA DISTRICT, PAKISTAN

6. Various shots, food distribution at WFP Logistic Base

FILE – WHP – 1 DECEMBER 2008, NEAR UGANDAN BORDER, DR CONGO

7. Various shots, refugees moving across DRC/Uganda border

FILE – WHP – 26 MAY 2009, , DUNGU, NORTH EAST DR CONGO

8. Various shots, WFP aircraft dropping food
9. Wide shot, food bags dropping
10. Wide shot, food bags on ground

JUNE 2009, ROME, ITALY

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, WFP:
“I want the leaders of the G8 to know that they can make a huge difference in the battle against hunger. How? By putting it at the top of their agenda and declaring that it is not acceptable for any nation, any world leader, to not make sure that the people in their own nation have adequate access to food and nutrition. That alone would be a political revolution that could activate the solutions that are already at hand. The world knows how to defeat hunger, the G8 has to show the political resolve that they are not going to compromise on this issue.”

FILE – WFP – 27 SEPTEMBER 2008, GONAIVES, HAITI

11. Wide shot, street of Gonaives after storm destruction 
12. Med shot, family on roof

FILE – WFP – NOVEMBER 2008, GONAIVES, HAITI

13. Various shots, WFP helicopter relief operation

FILE- WFP -29 JUNE 2009, SOUTHERN SUDAN

13. Various shots, Worlds largest helocopter MI26 used by WFP to deliver food to Akobo in South Sudan

STORYLINE:

As leaders at the G8 summit in L’Aquila gather to discuss global food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urging a twin-track approach to food security, supporting long-term agricultural production with continued support for immediate hunger assistance.

“I want the leaders of the G8 to know that they can make a huge difference in the battle against hunger,” said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, headquartered in Rome. “How? By putting it at the top of their agenda and declaring that it is not acceptable for any nation, any world leader, to not make sure that the people in their own nation have adequate access to food and nutrition”.
In figures released two weeks ago by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization the number of hungry people is now projected to top 1.02 billion, and with the global economic crisis compounding the ongoing food price crisis in the developing world, causing loss of jobs, remittances and slowed exports and investment, this number is expected to climb further.

This reverses a four-decade trend where the number of hungry has declined. At the same time, global food aid supplies last year were at a 34 year low and 18 percent lower than in 2005. Food aid has dropped 35 percent since 1995.

WFP depends entirely on voluntary donations, and has risen less than one quarter of its US$6.4 billion budget for 2009 at the halfway point of the year.

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