George W. Bush, the President of the United States recently discussed Food Aid in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. He called for extra funds to be allocated by Congrss to support food aid. " I am calling on Congress to provide an additional $770 million to support food aid and development programs. Together, this amounts to nearly $1 billion in new funds to bolster global food security," he said.

The Bush administration says it is working to provide additional food aid to hunger-ravaged countries that need it most. The initiative comes at a time when food prices have been rising sharply around the world, and many nations are complaining of severe shortages of basic goods.

Shipments of thousands of tons of food widely wanted in impoverished North Korea were delayed because of a railway dispute between the regime and Chinese train companies.

The United Nations says it has stopped distributing food in the Somali capital Mogadishu after its compound was stormed by government troops, who arrested the local head of the World Food Program.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that its aid programmes for hungry people in Somalia could be jeopardized without fresh contributions allowing the flow of relief to continue.

Implementing best-practice standards for emergency international food aid will improve the quality, timeliness and appropriateness of food aid, reports Daniel Maxwell, PhD, research director for Food Security and Complex Emergencies at the Feinstein International Center (FIC), part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today announced the launch of an operation to airlift emergency food supplies to over 2,600 Sudanese refugees who recently crossed into the the Central African Republic (CAR).

South Korea's decision to resume food aid to North Korea is based on humanitarian concerns and is not linked to the standoff over neighbor's nuclear program, a top official said Thursday.

South Korean officials say their agreement Sunday to send rice to help North Korea feed its people will only go through if Pyongyang honors a pledge to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program. And President Bush's special envoy monitoring human rights in North Korea says Pyongyang must change its ways before normalization of U.S. relations can take place.

The U.S. ambassador to South Korea says Washington and Seoul do not have widely divergent views on North Korea, despite an announcement Sunday that the South is ready on its own and outside the six-party nuclear talks framework to provide food aid to the North. VOA's Stephanie Ho reports from Washington.

North and South Korean officials have opened talks in Pyongyang regarding food aid and other joint-projects. News reports from Pyongyang say the North Korean delegation delayed Thursday's talks for hours after demanding to see a text of the South's keynote speech, which Seoul refused.

The introduction of new standards to assess nutrition in children could lead to confusion and a cut in the numbers of malnourished children eligible for emergency feeding programmes, warn researchers in this week's BMJ.