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A modern humanitarian daily ration. Humanitarian daily rations (HDRs, "humrats") are food rations manufactured in the United States intended to be supplied to civilians and other non-military personnel in humanitarian crises. [1] [2] Each is intended to serve as a single person's full daily food supply, and contains somewhat over 2,200 calories ...
BP-5 Compact Food (also known as a BP-5 biscuit) is a high-calorie, vitamin fortified, compact, compressed and dry emergency food (food ration bar), often used by relief agencies for the emergency feeding of refugees and internally displaced persons.
The Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR) is a self-contained Halal meal designed to be given to refugees and other displaced people. It is designed to feed a person for a full day, and the menus are intended to be palatable to many religious and cultural tastes.
Six months on, and the statistics from the Haitian earthquake remain staggering. Consider some very basic data: Much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, a city with a population comparable to ...
Old emergency rations featured in a display case at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region V office, Chicago, Illinois (November 2006). Emergency rations are items of food and drink that a person stores and relies on in case of an emergency. Emergency food supplies can be purchased for camping trips or wilderness adventures.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people ...
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) had to cut rations to another 2 million Afghans this month and is warning of a "catastrophic" winter if funding runs out with little food for remote communities ...
A food ration bar (also known as emergency food bar or compressed food bar) [1] is a type of biscuit generally included in emergency rations and compact field rations. A cross between a hardtack and an energy bar , these shelf-stable products provide a high caloric density and are generally made of grain flour, sugar, and vegetable oil.