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Accra, 7 Factor December - United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding Memorandum of $ 390 million (MOU) for the improving nutrition in Ghana
U.S. Agency for International Development to assist in the provision of funds, the World Food Programme to provide food security network to support the poor and weak. Malnourished children, pregnant women and highest in the northern region of Ghana, lactating mothers suffering from malnutrition, including anti-retroviral drugs for people infected with HIV and their families receive the food and nutritional support.
Mr. Ismail Omar, the World Food Programme representative in Ghana, which sealed the organization, said the World Food Program has a program to improve nutrition and launched in the three northern regions that were most severely affected months affected over the past 3 years, food security. He said that Ghana, the purchase of food from the WFP needed for production.
Omar said, for food's nutritional program is the long-term relief and recovery operation (emergency and recovery), the relief and reconstruction in the three northern regions to support human activity is for 423,000 th
In addition to women and children suffering from malnutrition, nutritional therapy components help speed recovery operations Savannah Naga Development Council (Sada) for the work program of climate change such as deforestation Address, soil erosion , avoid planting trees and building homes in the wells of food. Other training components, such as capacity building, training and income generating activities for sustainable interventions other foods.
Relief and recovery, the overall budget of U.S. $ 28,000 in 22 million tons of food. Mr. Peter Argo, USAID Deputy Director of the delegation said that the social and economic development of agriculture and the contribution of women in Ghana is enormous, therefore, have priority to solving the problem of security role to give eating women.
He said the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Ghana to ensure a gender perspective in all activities, including their food security programs of equality, and notes that the development of agricultural sectors and the strengthening of the ( pre) was calculated from the basic food and horticultural plants. This, he said he would fight better against existing inequalities and to better identify the men and women in the intervention group of value chains, leading to greater benefits for the community. "Our plans for the future on the basis of food to help Ghana to achieve close cooperation with the Government of Ghana and other partners, the objective of sustainable food security. Invest in Ghana and has an attitude, food security of food systems through the most, eliminating the need for humanitarian aid. "
WFP is "the world's largest humanitarian organization in the fight against hunger in the world, the pursuit of ideals, where every man, woman and child at any time of the positive and healthy life December 7, 1910 Food
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