CHADWFP FEEDING OF VULNERABLE GROUPS AND ASSISTANCE TO DROUGHT REHABILITATION, Chad, 1981. Chad, ravaged by recurring droughts since 1967, has more recently been afflicted by civil war and political dis...

COLOMBIAREHABILITATION OF SMALL FARMERS THROUGH INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT?, Colombia, December.1980. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the Government?s programme of Integrated Rural Deve...

EthiopiaPrefamine in Ethiopia, January 1988 On the road joining Mekele and Wukro in north Tigre, the International Red Cross Committee (IRCR) is authorized to distribute food to farmers and their families. P...

HaitiWFP ASSISTANCE TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND VULNERABLE GROUPS - Haiti, 1981 One of the world's poorest countries, Haiti is a small, largely rocky and mountainous island in the Caribbean. Agriculture is...

COLOMBIANUTRITIONAL EDUCATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING OF VULNERABLE GROUPS Colombia, December 1980. Since 1969 the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) has been assisting the Colombian Institute for Family W...

EL SALVADOREL SALVADOR, 1986 - EMERGENCY On 10 October 1986 an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter Scale struck El Salvador causing loss of life and vast material 'damage. An estimated 30,000 families wer...

COLOMBIANUTRITION EDUCATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING OF VULNERABLE GROUPS. Colombia, 1972. There is an urgent and immediate need in Colombia to expand major social services, particularly in the field of...

Burkina FasoESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL CANTEENS, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, 1970. More than 12,000 children attend primary schools in Ouagadougou, the capital of Upper Volta. Many are suffering from malnutrition...

GUATEMALATRAINING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT, Guatemala, December, 1972. The main purpose of the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) project is the feeding of students at the Technical Institute for Agriculture,...

AFRICABasutoland, (Lesotho from 1966), May 1966. The Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund have combined forces to help the government of the country teach its people abou...

MADAGASCARFAO-FFHC/UNESCO GIFT COUPON PROGRAMME. Madagascar, 1966 - A little girl at work in the school-garden: hoeing a beet-root plot.

Dahomey, May 1962 - Serious food shortages, even famine, occur time and time again in many African countries, mostly due to drought. The latest famine occurred in May 1962 in Dahomey and Togoland, in...

BRAZILSchool Feeding in the Sao Francisco Valley - Brazil, 1968. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and has the eighth largest population. Its problems are also on a continental scale and pove...

AFRICAEthiopia, 1980 - Peasant woman cooking with precious firewood in her hut. The forests of Ethiopia are being stripped for cooking fuel.