Project ID: 19868

China pledges to donate 5,000 tons of food aid to Zimbabwe

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Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Zimbabwe

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Pipeline: Pledge (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2008-01-02

Planned start

2008-01-03

Description

On January 3, 2008, the Chinese Government agreed to send 5,000 tons of food aid to Zimbabwe to help with a food shortage in the country. A crop assessment after the 2007 harvest indicated that the country had roughly a 1 million ton shortfall. It is unclear whether or not or when the shipment arrived in Zimbabwe. However, this pledge may have been fulfilled when the Chinese Government provided $5 million to the World Food Program in May 2008 to support its food aid delivery efforts in Zimbabwe (see Project ID#62137).

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

4

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Zimbabwe [Government Agency]