Posted on March 24, 2009 by Becca Lewis
Somalia is close to going into famine.
According to FSAU, Somalia has an “ongoing and sustained humanitarian crisis,” with up to 200,000 children malnourished. Without immediate funding for emergency nutrition, more people will become malnourished and vulnerable to diseases. One in six children under the age of five are acutely malnourished and one in twenty are [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2009 by Jason Ziebell
With the recent release of a study completed by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors that projects that America could conceivably generate 90 billion gallons of ethanol by 2030, the United States seems bound to ignore the warnings OXFAM has made regarding the impact biofuel is making on the world food crisis. Over the [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2009 by Jason Ziebell
On January 13 the International Center for Tropical Agriculture introduced a new digital map technology that covers 42 countries, and will allow for soil scientists to pinpoint areas of soil degradation. According to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, “Low soil fertility is one of the major factors responsible for depressed yields on [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by Jason Ziebell
In a report published this month by Oxfam entitled, “A Billion Hungry People,” the humanitarian organization says global hunger increased by 109 million people in 2008 due in large part to rising fuel and food prices, bringing the world’s hunger count to almost a billion people, roughly one sixth of the world’s population.
Based on this [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by James A. Bowey
The G8 leaders held their annual summit this week in Hokkaido, Japan and had much to say about food poverty and climate change, just not together.
In their Statement on Global Food Security, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United States and the United Kingdom said they “are determined to take all possible [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by James A. Bowey
The number of people who are having trouble acquiring enough food to feed their household is rising and it’s projected to get worse. In a new report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reversed its hunger outlook and says there will be a rise — instead of a decline — in world hunger over [...]
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