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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10024
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food poverty

2010 food aid plan for poorest is adopted

Brussels, 20/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 20 November, the European Commission published the food aid plan for the neediest people for the year 2010. Originally set up to provide surplus stocks of farm produce to needy people (intervention stocks), the scheme was amended in the mid-1990s to make it possible to supplement intervention stocks with market purchases in certain circumstances. This year, existing intervention stocks (cereals, sugar, milk powder, butter) broadly covered...

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