How to Solve World Hunger

World Food Conference Looks At Subsistence Farming

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 05.25.2011

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DES MOINES, Iowa — About 1 billion small farmers worldwide, many of them women, face drought, the effects of climate change and a lack of techno...

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End World Hunger With Soup (Really!)

Paul Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Katz

Jamie and Lynn Klein, husband and wife co-founders of Soup Kitchen, Inc., have found a way to end world hunger. For every portion their company sells, an additional portion is donated to a shelter.

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7 Things You Need To Know For World Food Day (Including How To Get Involved)

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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For many Americans, every day is "Food Day." Yet, there are millions in America for whom providing meals for their family is a daily struggle. World F...

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The Porn Industry Blows...My Mind

Bobby Bailey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bobby Bailey

I think I want to go into the porn industry. They make over $14 billion a year, and just one percent of those annual earnings could help feed three million people. Not a bad deal, right?

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One Quarter of Americans Still Don't Believe It -- What About You?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frances Moore Lappe

If citizens' having real choice is the heart of democracy -- and no human being chooses to go hungry -- we might ponder: Isn't hunger's very existence proof of a deficit of democracy?

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Good Grief, Gordon Brown!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frances Moore Lappe

By scolding Britons to "cut [their] food waste," Prime Minister Gordon Brown reinforces the dangerous myth that a shortage of food is the reason food prices have jumped.

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Jim Whitton Of The Hunger Project

E. A. Hanks | Posted 11.17.2011

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E. A. Hanks

"A dangerous and patronizing cliche we often hear is, 'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day -- teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.' People living with chronic hunger have generations of wisdom about 'fishing' -- the problem is the barbed wire around the lake."

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