Food Aid

Our Current Global Food Crisis and How We Can Feed 17 Million More People

Ruth Messinger | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Shavuot, Farm Bill, Africa, Food Aid, Book of Ruth, American Jewish World Service, Hunger, Poverty, Judaism, Religion News

This year during Shavuot, the Jewish holiday which marks the end of the harvest, I am reminded of my commitment to alleviate hunger.

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We Need to Broaden Our Focus on North Korea

Linda Constant | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: North Korea Nuclear Talks, Kcna, Human Rights, Diplomacy, Food Aid, Iaea, Syria, North Korea, Dprk, Famine, World News

There is no logical reason why we cannot address the regime's nuclear energy goals simultaneously with the country's appalling human rights conditions, which violate every imaginable facet of basic human liberties.

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Food Aid Takes Off in Athens

Diana Farr Louis | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Xenia Papastavrou, Food Aid, Homeless, Crisis, Facebook, Athens, Greece, Hungry, Boroume, Greek Debt Crisis, Food News

Last May a young woman had an idea that sent her to her computer. Why not create a network linking organizations that need food with those that have too much: bakeries, tavernas, hotels, fast food chains... ?

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All for One Aim: Multi-pronged Approach to Fight Hunger

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Drought, Hunger, Fao, Price Volatility, Food Crisis, Sustainable Agricultural Innovations, Horn of Africa, Food Aid, Malnourishment, World Food Day, Food Prices, Food Security, World Food Program, Impact News

India is in the process of enacting a food security act to provide food for nearly 70 percent of the population, specifically targeting the poor, who are often not counted in state surveys and who are denied many benefits.

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Somalia Celebrates End Of Fasting Holiday With Food Aid

AP | By KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Somalia, Hunger, Eid Al Fitr, Food Aid, Good News, Somalia Famine, Somalia Food Aid, Ramadan, Impact News

DOLO, Somalia -- As she celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, Somali mother Quresho Mohmoud Dahir counted her blessings: all her ch...

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"Your Son Is Not Sick. He Just Needs to Eat."

Louis Belanger | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Dadaab, Oxfam, Famine, Humanitarian Aid, Somalia, Kenya, Food Aid, Nairobi, World News

A famine? How did we get there? How did we let the situation deteriorate so that people are actually dying of hunger?

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Somalia Famine: Fewer Refugees Making It To Food Supplies, Aid Workers Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Ethiopia, Somalia Famine, Food Crisis, Agriculture, Climate Change in Africa, World Concern, Humanitarian Aid, Kenya, East Africa Famine, Famine, Humanitarian Crisis, Somalia, Climate Change, World Food Programme, Food Aid, Global Warming, World Food Program, World News

The number of refugees pouring out of famine-stricken Somalia has greatly reduced in recent days, aid workers in the region say -- and that may not be...

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Republicans Vote To Cut Food Aid To Women, Children

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Senate Wic Vote, Food Aid Cuts, Wic, Wic Vote, Senate Farm Subsidies, Senate Food Aid, WIC Cuts, Senate Food Aid Vote, Senate Wic, Women Infants Children, Food Aid Vote, Farm Subsidies Vote, Food Aid Gop, Food Aid, Farm Subsidies, Gop Food Aid, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House voted to slash domestic and international food aid Thursday while rejecting cuts to farm subsidies. A spending...

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Vote To Cut Food Aid Splits GOP

Politico | David Rogers | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Paul Broun, Women Infants Children, Food Aid Cuts, Wic, Food Aid Vote, Wic Food Aid, Food Aid, House GOP, Food for Peace Cuts, Jack Kingston, Virginia Foxx, Food for Peace, Women Infants Children Food Aid, Politics News

Already on the defensive, scores of House Republicans joined with Democrats on Wednesday to beat back repeated conservative attempts to make still dee...

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Republicans Slash Food Aid For Low-Income Women And Children, But Dodge Farm Subsidy Cuts

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Women Infants Children, Republicans Food Ain Women Children, Republicans Farm Subsidies, Food Aid, Farm Subsidies, Agriculture, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans have quietly maneuvered to prevent a House spending bill from chipping away at federal farm subsidies, instead forging ahead...

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GOP Poised To Cut Food Aid For Pregnant Women, Children

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: GOP Budget, Gop Budget Cuts, Wic, Food Stamps, Housing Subsidies, Public Housing, Budget Cuts, Budget, Food Aid, Wic Program, Politics News

WASHINGTON — In an otherwise lean budget year, the House on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to boost funding to take care of the medical needs of t...

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To Congress: Quit Playing Politics With Food Aid

Ruth Messinger | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Food Aid, Budget Cuts, Food Politics, Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme, GAFSP, U.S. Congress, World News

Sadly, global hunger is getting worse not better. And it seems that the fate of a billion people living in poverty could take a backseat to opportunistic politics on Capitol Hill.

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"Miami Rice": The Business of Disaster in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Farmers, Agriculture, Food Aid, Hunger, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Usaid, Haiti Aid, Bill Clinton, World News

What is at stake in Haiti? What interests underlie the grab for power in the country? One answer is the large amount of aid and development dollars that are circulating.

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World Food Programme Finance Innovation Could Cut Hunger

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Food Aid, World Food Programme, Natural Disasters, Australia, World Hunger, Africa, World News

The World Food Programme will propose an expanded financing facility to fund advance purchases of food. This has the potential to cut hunger, by stretching WFP dollars and speeding deliveries.

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Indiana Ends Food Aid For Developmentally Disabled

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Stamps, Food Aid, Food Aid Disabled, Developmentally Disabled, American Civil Liberties Union, Indiana, Indiana Food Aid, Impact News

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has quietly ended a state grocery benefit paid to hundreds of developmentally disabled people who advocates say have no m...

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It's Time to End the Double-Standard of Food Aid

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Starved for Attention, Childhood Malnutrition, Malnutrition, Hunger, Childhood Nutrition, World Hunger, Food Aid, Impact News

We must stop giving the world's poorest and most vulnerable children food we would never even think of putting into the mouths of our own kids. We need your help.

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'Please Give My Dad A Job,' Writes Twelve-Year-Old In Oregon

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oregon Motorcoach, Free Clinic, Cheyenne Hess, Al-Aqsa, 211, Brian Ellerby, United Way, Bearing Witness 2.0, Ed Read, Food Aid, Bearing Witness, Andy Hess, Impact News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A 12-year-old girl in ...

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Ethiopia Pleads For Food For 6.2 Million People

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Un-Food-Aid, US Food Aid, UN Food AID, Food-Aid, Ethiopia, Food, Food Aid, World News

The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people....

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Land Grabbing Leads to Imported Aid, Exported Crop

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Land-Grab, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Food Aid, China, Food Security, Ethiopia, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Prices, World Food Programme, Congo, World News

As food aid stamped with the World Food Programme's logo is shipped to Sudan, thousands of tons of wheat and rice are shipped out -- to Riyadh, Beijing and Seoul.

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25th Anniversary of Ethiopian Famine: Has Anything Changed?

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam, Food Aid, Ethiopia, Humanitarian Aid, Famine, Oxfam America, World News

During the years since the 1984 famine, things had begun to change in the area around Korem, and these changes made it possible for a young woman like Merzeneb to think about pursuing new options in life.

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Obama's Chance to Fix Food Aid

Elizabeth Sepper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Starvation, Development Aid, Foreign Aid, US Food Aid, Food Aid, World Hunger, Food Aid Committee, World News

The world's one billion hungry cannot afford to wait. This week, their needs -- not those of donor countries -- should be at the heart of discussions at the Food Aid Committee.

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Hunger, Jobs and Water Wars

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, California Drought, Fresno-California, Agriculture, California Latino Water Coalition, Food, Food Aid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Recession, Politics News

Food aid is rolling in to the breadbasket of California. In Fresno County, the state's most productive agricultural area, a hunger crisis has been unfolding for the better part of a year.

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G-8 Promises $20 Billion in Agricultural Aid: Real Change or Business as Usual?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, G8, Gmos, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Africa, Sustainability, Group-of-8, Food Aid, International, Barack Obama, Food Security, Green News

One can't help but wonder if by requesting this money from the G8 in the name of charity we are instead trying to promote our own economy.

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GAO Report Highlights Costs of U.S. Food Aid Restrictions

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, US Food Aid, Food Aid, Gao, Government Accountability Office, World News

Congressional restrictions on U.S. food aid raise the costs of delivering it by as much as a third and delay it reaching hungry people by up to 100 days.

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Rising Prices Slash Amount Of Food Aid Bought By US Gov't

The New York Times | CELIA W. DUGGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UN Food AID, Food Aid, Food Prices, Home News

Soaring food prices, driven in part by demand for ethanol made from corn, have helped slash the amount of food aid the government buys to its lowest ...

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