text: emergency food aid to Africa. As a result, commltments of food aid for theaffected countries have increased significantly. According to data of WFp, as atI July 1985 food aid commitments amounted to about 5.9 million metric Eons,including both cereal and non-cereal pledges. As at late June 1995, while the foodsupply situation had returned to nornal in tno countries and prospects regardingcrops and pastures had improved in five others, a further year of food crisis wasfar from over as recovery and rehabilitation remained urgently needed in aIIcounlries. V rhe vtorld Bank has made $5 million available to wFp principally tocover the logistical costs reLating to transport and delivery of food aid. 15. other organizations in the unibed r€tions system are also dearing with theeffects of famine and related crises in Africa. In the health sector, theexecutive heads of !{Ho and uNrcEF, rearizing necessity for close co-operaLion between the two organizations in the identlfication of needs and the planning and implementation of emergency resources to meet health, food, water and sanitationrequirements, met early in 1985. U WEO and UNICEF are provlding emergency healthaid involving millions of dollars !o more chan 20 crisis-stricken countries lnAfrica. The ai.m is to provide a solid basis for recovery by ensuring thatshort-term relief is accompanied by enhancement of hearth derivery systems. Thiscombination of shorC-term assistance and a gearch for longer-term solutions hasbeen lhe phil-osophy behind all the co-operative efforts of the united Nationssystem. S/A/ 40 /597 Enql i sh Page 7 B. ryldressing the longer-Eerm need6 of agriculture in Africa 16. It is htidely apprecialed that even if sufficient €ood aid i6 forthcoming to save the lj.ves immediately at risk in certaj.n parts of Africa, the food production problems of the African continent oill not be fully resolved, The present emergency was partly the result of the compounding of past economic shortcomings.FUII recovery will require assistance both Co provide the African countries with the physical inputs necessary to revive production and also to enable them to put in place policies that eould better promote agricultural development in the contextof overall long-term growth and devel.opment. / fn this connection, a working Group on Emergency-Developnen t Linkages was recently established wlthin the United Nations by the Di rec Cor -cenera I for Development and fnt€rnational Economic Co-operation. The general airn of the working croup is to examine measures that might facilitate the transition of emergency assistance from survival relief to
analysis: The text discusses the provision of emergency food aid to Africa, the challenges faced by the affected countries, and the efforts of international organizations to address the crisis. The text also touches on the long-term need to address the root causes of food production problems in Africa, including economic shortcomings and the need for policies that promote agricultural development. This suggests that the text is concerned with both short-term humanitarian aid and long-term development.