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    China becomes the world's third largest donor of food

    20 July 2006

    After 26 years of receiving food aid, China has emerged as the world's third largest food donor, according to a report released today by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).

    China donated 577,000 tonnes of food to more than a dozen countries around the world in 2005.

    The report's findings, which track all international food donations, underline China's growing economic and political clout in Asia, and show how far the country has come since the great famines of the late 1950s.

    For the first time since 1979, China will not receive any food aid itself from the WFP this year, under an agreement reached five years ago to phase out donations to the world's most populous nation.

    China's food aid soared by 260% compared to 2004, accounting for more than half of the rise in overall food aid donations in 2005.
    that's the report based on 2005,3 years passed and i guess the figures must have jumped a much higher level.even china has one fifth of the humanity to feed.we are still happy to share the chinese ecnomic success with other countries,especailly those developing countries.

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    China-Africa Cooperation Forum in October 2000 in Beijing, the Chinese government pledged to write off African countries' 156 overdue debts totaling 10.5 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) in two years. The pledge was fulfilled ahead of schedule.

    China has provided African countries with a total of 44.4 billion yuan (US$5.55 billion) in aid as of May 2006. It has helped build textile mills, hydropower stations, sport venues, hospitals and schools, more than 800 projects in all.
    huge relief for african countries,i hope china can offer more help in the future.

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      (constant) donaten of free food does not help africa (or other places) but just kill the local (agricultural) economy. Most people make the small amount of money they earn by working in farms. Food donations kill thoses farms and cause the workers to lose even the small amount of money they had.

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      • #4
        how about write off their debt then.

        Recently China has twice provided debt relief on its own terms to African countries. In 2000–02, it wrote off overdue obligations totaling 10.5 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), and in 2006 it announced that it would cancel another 10 billion yuan in debt owed by 33 heavily indebted and least developed African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. Incomplete data make it hard to compare the terms on which China provided debt relief with the terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative—the debt relief program jointly run by the IMF and the World Bank.

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        • #5
          Destroys their credit rating and makes it harder to get any new funds.

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          • #6
            Tarek,
            You are a party pooper.


            :))
            A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Tarek Morgen View Post
              (constant) donaten of free food does not help africa (or other places) but just kill the local (agricultural) economy. Most people make the small amount of money they earn by working in farms. Food donations kill thoses farms and cause the workers to lose even the small amount of money they had.
              Not necessarily. India too received massive tonnages of food and needless to say that Indian Agricultural economy is not insignificant. Point is how the receipient country then takes steps to do away the short comings. India did by massive projects to start green revolution.We were not happy with being beggers.

              Just because its coming from China need not necessarily be bad.

              Also note that the poster has mentioned that "China has become the third largest donor". Any ideas to who occupies the top 2 slot and if what you have written is true then the bigger culprits are the top2. No?

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              • #8
                Unlike India, aid in Africa for the most part had negative effects. Somalia, Ethiopia, etc to start with.
                A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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                • #9
                  Unlike India, aid in Africa for the most part had negative effects. Somalia, Ethiopia, etc to start with.
                  lying again...

                  China's influence is almost universally viewed as having a more beneficial impact on African countries than does that of the United States.
                  Pew Research Center: How the World Sees China

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by haidian View Post
                    lying again...
                    Lying again? The chart you presented says China is favorable compared to US in Africa, it does not says whether giving food aid is good or bad in the longer run. Read before you quote.
                    Last edited by Jay; 13 Sep 08,, 18:08.
                    A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by haidian View Post
                      The Names of countries should show something. Names of countries simply point to the fact that you are helping leader with blood on their hands.

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                      • #12
                        those are the public opinions showed by the people ,not by the government.where is indian place by the way?

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