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Morris

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2002-12-03
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2005-06-30
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  1. “We have a practice in which we offer a school meal as an incentive for a child to come to school. A meal encourages the parents to send the child to school. Once the child is in school and not hungry, the child can begin to learn. We can work with the World Health Organization for all sorts of significant health interventions. Half of those children are infected with worms. For 30 cents a year, a child can be cured of worms. If a child has worms, 50 per cent of the nutritional value of what the child eats goes to feed the worms. So the impact of feeding a school child, which we can do for $38 a year or 19 cents a day, can dramatically change a child's life.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  2. “In some of the places where we have the most difficulty, there is no functioning private sector; there is no market; prices are set; and grain dealers are not allowed to do their work. Without private-sector incentives, initiatives and rewards, adequate crops will not be available. We need to make a much more substantial investment in nutrition. A modest investment in nutrition may have the greatest leverage for strengthening people's energy and health. Secondly, investment in our school feeding programme may be the most important thing we do. Last year, we fed 15 million children in 57 countries around the world. The fact of the matter is that there are 800 million hungry people and 300 million hungry children, half of whom do not go to school. This problem disproportionately affects young women.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  3. “A total of 62 per cent of the support for the World Food Programme comes from the United States. We are incredibly grateful to the United States for its generosity, but it is not healthy and it is not sustainable for one country or provide such a huge percentage of a single organization's budget. Clearly there needs to be more basic investment in agriculture. There is no country in the world that has had economic success that did not first put in place a very substantial agricultural economy. As I mentioned, I am especially grateful to the United Kingdom, because it has increased its investment in basic agriculture fivefold. Thirdly, the private sector needs to be allowed to function.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  4. “To date we have raised slightly more than $700 million. This does not take into account the work that we do in school feeding or with nutritional enhancement, and so on. The fact of the matter is that weather problems are simply dramatically more serious today than they were 10 years ago. In the early 1990s, we averaged 18 emergency food assessments for the first five years. In the second five years of the 1990s, we average 33 emergency food assessments, nearly twice that number. In order for progress to be made, half a dozen things need to happen. We need to have, as I said earlier, stronger and more consistent funding of humanitarian aid. The amount of food aid in the world in the last three years has decreased from 15 million tons a year to 11 million tons, a decrease of 25 per cent.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  5. “Thank God, there has not been conflict there, but as many as 750,000 people could be at risk because of the weather in the western Sahel. In West Africa - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire - another million people are at risk, and it could be substantially more than that because of the strife and because of the huge population of refugees and internally displaced persons who move around in the area. If all of this is pulled together, one quickly comes to the conclusion that between 38 million and 40 million are at risk of starvation in Africa. The World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian agency in the world. We have 2,000 non- governmental organization (NGO) partners all around the world, and our budget for our work in these places in Africa is about $1.4 billion.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  6. “They have had a very difficult weather situation this past year - virtually no spring rains, and the fall rains came late. The agricultural crop this year in Eritrea will be 20 per cent of what it was last year, and the crop in Ethiopia will be decreased by 20 per cent, with about a sixth of the population severely at risk. The worst-case scenario would be that as many as 15 million people - a number comparable to that in southern Africa - will be at risk in the Horn. In addition, the World Food Programme is feeding 2.9 million people in the Sudan every day. The situation there is a result of the combination of weather factors, the conflict and refugees. In the western Sahel especially in Mauritania - but also in the Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Cape Verde, there have been serious drought problems.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  7. “I think that the countries around the world that support development have lost their focus on the importance of fundamental basic investment in agricultural infrastructure, and I think that it is beginning to turn around. But for people to become food self-sufficient, they need to have a basic, strong agricultural system, and I am grateful that countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States have now substantially increased their investment in agricultural infrastructure. A second area in Africa that is of great concern is what we would call the greater Horn of Africa. Some would define that as only Ethiopia and Eritrea, but we would include the Sudan. Ethiopia and Eritrea are countries that depend heavily on rain-fed agriculture for their crops and for their pastoral livestock.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  8. “AIDS leads to all sorts of other serious health problems - cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, diarrhoea, and so on. There is a very difficult weather situation, an incredible health situation with HIV/AIDS, and also tough issues related to governance and to macro- economic policy. Clearly, for the long haul, for situations like this to be substantially addressed and alleviated, there needs to be a major opening up of economies and a strengthening of the role of the free market. A whole range of new economic influences that have made countries around the world successful need to come into play here. Most importantly, there must be substantial investment in agricultural infrastructure.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  9. “The fact of the matter is that there are 14.5 million people in those six countries who are severely at risk of starvation - half of them in Zimbabwe, approximately 3 million each in Zambia and Malawi, and several hundred thousand in the other three countries. Mozambique is affected only in the south. The effects of serious weather problems have been dramatically complicated by HIV/AIDS. I would say that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has radically changed the economic landscape of those six countries. During my recent visit there, I spent a great deal of time with teachers and with young people. There are 11 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa and 4.6 million orphans in the six countries I mentioned, 60 per cent of whom were orphaned because both their mother and father died of AIDS. This is a tragic fact of life.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  10. “We need more support from our current donors, and we need new donors to come in and be our partners. We are very grateful that countries such as Russia, China, India, Oman, Peru and Algeria - it is quite a long list - have decided to help us for the first time this year. Much of that support is directed to the work that is being done in southern Africa. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been our great, great friend. In July, he asked me to be his special envoy to look at humanitarian issues in the six southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  11. “The issues in Africa represent a combination of very difficult weather situations, exacerbated by the El Nifio phenomenon; very difficult health issues, dramatically complicated by HIV/ AIDS - I will talk more about that in a few minutes; civil strife; a huge number of refugees and internally displaced people; landmines; the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs); and very challenging issues relating to governance and economic policy. For us to do what is expected of us, our Board has approved a work programme this year of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. All of our support comes from voluntary contributions from Governments. We essentially receive 90 per cent of what we have to work with from 10 entities, including the European Community.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  12. “I have been on the job only eight months. We have about 9,000 employees and we are headquartered in Rome; 700 of our employees are in Rome. When I visit with my senior colleagues, they tell me that never in the history of the World Food Programme have we had as many difficult challenges before us. We work all over the world. Last year we were feeding 10 million people in Afghanistan and 6.5 million people in North Korea. We are currently feeding half a million people in the Palestinian territories. We have concluded our work in East Timor, Kosovo and Yugoslavia. But I am here to report that about 60 per cent of our work today takes place in Africa. Five places in Africa are experiencing very severe problems.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source

  13. “Mr. Morris: The World Food Programme is deeply honoured to be here with you, Mr. President, and your colleagues today. The World Food Programme is the agency of the United Nations that is charged with responsibility for feeding the world's hungriest, poorest people, wherever they might be. Last year, we fed about 80 million people in 83 countries. Ten years ago, 80 per cent of our work would have been in development. Today, 80 per cent of our work is responding to emergencies. Our challenge is to respond to emergencies in such a way that some permanent advantage accrues to the benefit of the individuals we are helping, and to feed people in such a way that their educational opportunities, that their health and nutrition are enhanced and, ultimately, that their livelihood, food security and creation of assets are strengthened.”

    2002-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4652 (2002) · source