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2020.Wheat disappearance in the Upper
Midwest in June-August totaled 208,937,000
bus, down 77,666,000, or 27%, from
286,603,000 in the same span a year ago.
The Sept. 1 wheat inventory in the key
soft red winter wheat region of the Central
states - Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and Michigan - was estimated at
205,928,000 bus, up 32,616,000 bus, or 19%,
from 173,312,000 bus a year ago. On-farm
wheat holdings totaled 25,300,000 bus, or
12% of the region's inventory. Wheat use in
the Central states in June-August totaled
45,016,000 bus, down 5,535,000, or 11%, from
50,551,000 bus in the first quarter of 2020-21.
Wheat stocks held in storage in the soft
white winter wheat states of the Pacific
Northwest - Idaho, Washington and
Oregon - on Sept. 1 totaled 202,179,000
bus, down 135,066,000 bus, or 40%, from
337,245,000 bus a year ago. Wheat disappearance
in the Pacific Northwest in the
first quarter of 2021-22 totaled 65,887,000
bus, down 23,076,000 bus, or 26%, from
88,963,000 bus in June-August 2020.
Durum wheat held in all positions on
Sept. 21 totaled 46,908,000 bus, down
24,109,000 bus, or 34%, from 71,017,000
bus a year ago. June-August use of durum
was estimated at 17,717,000 bus, down
22,004,000 bus, or 55%, from 39,721,000
bus in the same months in 2020. MBN
WFP chief exhorts world leaders:
'Roll up our sleeves' to end hunger
NEW YORK - " Now is the time to roll up
our sleeves because, you know, children
can't eat empty promises, " David Beasley,
executive director of the World Food
Programme, told representatives of more
than 150 nations assembled for the United
Nations World Food Systems Summit
in New York on Sept. 23. " It's up to us to
deliver and make food security and nutrition
a reality. "
The World Food Programme, recipient
of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, is the
world's largest humanitarian organization.
With a staff of 20,000
worldwide, the WFP currently
works in 80 nations to bring
food to people displaced by
conflict or made destitute by
disasters and help individuals
and communities find life-changing
solutions to challenges they face
in building better futures. In any given
year, WFP initiatives provide food for up
to 80 million people.
The WFP is a strong partner to the
United States in providing food assistance.
According to a US Agency for
International Development spokesperson,
the US government provided nearly
1.56 million tonnes of US food commodities
for in-kind donations to the hungry
of more than 50 nations in fiscal 2020. Of
this total, more than 1.13 million tonnes,
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or 73%, was delivered by the WFP.
Mr. Beasley, executive director of the
WFP since April 2017, formerly was governor
of South Carolina from 1995-99.
" If we're struggling today to reach the
7.7 billion people, imagine having 10, 11,
12 billion people on earth, " he said. " It's
a lot cheaper to address root cause and
give the people the resources they need
to empower them. "
Mr. Beasley said even with $400 trillion
worth of wealth on the earth today, 9
million people die from hunger every
year.
Mr. Beasley said his goal was
to put the WFP out of business,
ending the need for large-scale
food assistance by addressing
the root causes of world hunger.
" But how can we do that with
the direction that we're now going? "
he asked.
" As Rome-based agencies (the WFP
as well as the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization and the International Fund
for Agricultural Development all are
headquartered in Rome), we're not just
leaders, we're cheerleaders to empower
the private sector, inspire those in civil
society and individuals to make certain
that we love our neighbor as our equal so
that a child in Niger is just as important as
a child in New York, " he said. MBN
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