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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9908

27 May 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 27
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/un/food aid
With €39 million from food facility, WFP will be able to boost Asian and African agricultural productivity

Brussels, 26/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The World Food Programme (WFP) is delighted with the EU's €1bn Food Facility (2009-11), which seeks to help people in developing countries experiencing the full force of the food crisis.

The WFP has been an EU partner in implementing this operational tool since mid-May (EUROPE 9903). It will now receive €38.7bn in the facility's first tranche. On Tuesday 26 May, it announced that small farmers in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sierra Leone would soon...

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