37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
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17 August 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding the scope of its cash-for-work programme in Iraq in a bid to help more than 11,000 vulnerable people in areas hardest hit by violence.
The WFP scheme provides beneficiaries with short-term employment in agricultural infrastructure projects with the long-term aim of ensuring they do not lack food.
“Cash-for-work projects work really effectively in places where food is available in the market yet people cannot afford it – as is the case in Iraq,” said Edward Kallon, WFP’s Country Director for Iraq. “This project not only gives beneficiaries a job but it secures future food production by focusing on the agricultural sector,” he added.
Press Release No:2011/041/LAC
WASHINGTON DC, July 27, 2010 — The World Bank’s Executive Board of Directors approved a loan for $20 million today that will help Peru develop an irrigation project in the Sierra, in an effort to improve agricultural yield in the region.
The project’s goal is to increase and improve agricultural performance in the Sierra areas. By improving irrigation technology, farmers will have enough water to secure traditional harvests and, in time, shift to higher export value crops.
Through the Subsector Irrigation Program (PSI), the Ministry of Agriculture will be coordinate and implement project activities, with the technical assistance of the World Bank.
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis