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10 Mother's Day Gifts That Help Women In Need

Posted 05.04.2012

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When you shower your mom with the love –- and chocolate, jewelry and flowers –- that she deserves on May 13, you can also use that moment to honor...

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Calling on the Food and Beverage Industry to Help Reduce Poverty

Jordan Dey | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Kraft, Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Walmart, Quaker Oats, Hunger, Coca Cola, Mozambique, Poverty, Cargill, Haiti, Kenya, Pepsico, South Sudan, World Food Program, Sabmiller, Impact News
Jordan Dey

The sourcing decisions that major food and beverage companies make on a daily basis can help improve the lives of the world's smallest and poorest farmers in the developing world.

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Help Me, Bono, and Other Organizations End the Famine in Africa

Lisa Haisha | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Maasai, Africa, Charity, Children, Famine, World Food Program, Retreat, United Nations, Bono, Self Help, Tanzania, Unicef, Impact News
Lisa Haisha

While most people in the world know about the current famine in Africa, when a problem is hundreds or even thousands of miles away, it's easy to ignore it. It's time for everyone to face the facts.

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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
Danielle Nierenberg

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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Troops Open Fire On Somali Refugees During Fight For Food

AP | ABDI GULED and KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Somalia Drought, Somalia Famine 2011, Somalia Famine, Somalia, World Food Program, World News

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A World Food Program handout of corn rations to Somalis trying to survive a famine turned deadly Friday after government tr...

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Joshua Hersh

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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UPDATED: How You Can Help Somalia

Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: Kenya Red Cross, Ethiopia, Charity, Kenya, Somalia Drought, How to Help Somalia, Somalia, British Red Cross, World Food Program, Video, Impact News

UPDATED August 10, 2011 7:12 p.m. In the scorched-by-drought Horn of Africa, the famine continues to take its biggest toll on the most vulnerable. ...

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Somalia Drought Is 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis': U.N.

AP | MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED and LUC VAN KEMENADE | Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Ethiopia, Kenya, United Nations, Somalia Drought, Somalia, World Food Program, World News

DADAAB, Kenya — The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world af...

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Food: America's 21st Century Manifest Destiny?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Africa Food Crisis, World Food Program, Energy, Midwest, Politics, World Population, Farmland, World-Food-Shortages, Robert Zoellick, Grains, Opec, World Bank, Green, Business, Russian Wheat Embargo, World News
Raymond J. Learsy

Food offers this nation the opportunity not only to reconnect once again with its agricultural roots, but to assume a role of visionary leadership.

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Empowering People In Need By Donating Cash, Not Goods

Cormac Staunton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donating, Charity, Donations, Zimbabwe, World Food Programme, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarianism, World Food Program, Impact News
Cormac Staunton

There are differences and debates as to the extent to which these should be provided, but most people agree that the best way to provide this assistance is through money, rather than goods.

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Remember The People Of Pakistan This Christmas Season

Chris Herlinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christmas, Church World Service, Flooding, Humanitarian, Pakistan, Food Security, International Aid, Pakistan Flood, World Food Program, Religion News
Chris Herlinger

At this time of year, our world can seem very far indeed from Pakistan's harsh realities. I had hoped that the news from Pakistan would be, at best, mixed. But the news remains tough and largely discomforting.

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'United Against Hunger': World Food Day 2010 Focuses On Global Partnership

Posted 05.25.2011

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Each year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations commemorates World Food Day. In 2010, the theme is "United Against Hunge...

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We Can End Hunger: 10 Ways to Feed the World

Josette Sheeran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Schools, World Food Programme, Humanitarian Aid, World Food Program, Lord's Resistance Army, Impact News
Josette Sheeran

There are 925 million hungry people in the world today. Here are 10 new approaches -- permanent solutions to ensuring all people throughout the world have enough nutritious food.

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Another Food Crisis?

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Population, Wheat, Food, World Food Programme, Doha, Food Security, World Food Program, Food News
Kimberly Ann Elliott

The decision by Russia to respond to scorching heat and wildfires by restricting wheat exports is threatening to trigger a panic similar to what sent food prices soaring in the first half of 2008.

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How the World Food Program Can Feed More People More Quickly With Better Risk Management Tools

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vijaya Ramachandran

The WFP and its Board should implement a targeted hedging pilot focused on chronically food-vulnerable countries, using a conservative decision making methodology.

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Sudan Hunger Crisis: Emaciated Children, Families Struggling To Survive

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Farming, Ethiopia, World Hunger, World Food Program, Hospital, Agriculture, Medair, Peanut Butter, Drought, Hunger, Goi Juoyul Yol, Sudan, Sorghum, United Nations, Africa, Rains, Un, Save the Children, Fortified Peanut Butter, World News

AKOBO, Sudan — Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed, his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled, gaunt face resemblin...

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An Inspiring US-Kenya Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS

George McGovern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Food, Hunger, p4p, World Food Programme, Kenya, World Food Program, Impact News
George McGovern

Foreign and international assistance should not be permanent. Instead, it should be structured to help people move from assistance to being able to depend on themselves. This partnership does that.

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1,000 Words About Zambia

Bernard Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Care International, Zambia, Jan Nijhoff, KuOmboko Hostel, Community Markets for Conservation, Usaid, World Food Program, Comesa, Lusaka, World News
Bernard Pollack

After many months of drought the rain seems to be coming at the wrong time, too late to help farmers harvest crops. People were clearly getting nervous as newspapers predicting an entire week of rain.

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Are we seeing the end of 'corporate philanthropy'?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Dsm, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Hidden Hunger, World Food Programme, Haiti, Stephan Tanda, World Food Program, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

This week's gathering in San Francisco of the 9th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum Conference will bring together the leading voices from the NGO comm...

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MTV Tracks 'Hope For Haiti' Now Funds

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Relief, Mtv-News, Help Haiti, MTV Programming, World Hunger, United Nations, Sylvio Cator Soccer Stadium, Haiti Poverty, Hunger, Haiti Earthquake, Mtv, MTV Networks, Haiti Telethon, Haiti, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti Disaster Relief, World Food Programme, Haiti Aid, MTV Sway, Hope for Haiti Telethon, World Food Program, Video, Impact News

The Hope for Haiti Now Telethon proved very successful -- donations raised over $65 million for Haiti earthquake survivors. You may be wondering now though, how are the funds being spent?

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Marking a Month In Haiti Relief

Nancy Aossey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, International Relief, International Medical Corps, Haiti Earthquake, Ucla, Pakistan, Somalia, Earthquake, Afghanistan, Haiti, World Food Program, Impact News
Nancy Aossey

It's been a month since one of the modern era's deadliest earthquakes struck Haiti. Much has been accomplished during the past four weeks, but significant challenges remain.

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Global Aid Pours into Haiti

Yasamin Beitollahi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yasamin Beitollahi

The international outpouring of help displays humanity's better angels -- a global sense of grief and sympathy.

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Pakistan: WFP Compound Attacked By Suicide Bomber In Disguise, 5 Killed

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber who killed five staffers at the U.N. food agency's headquarters in Pakistan on Monday was dressed as a security off...

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Media Literacy 101: Of Mothers, Pakistan, Suicide Bombs, and Track II Diplomacy

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Literacy, Track II, Fear, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombers, Un, Pakistan, World Food Program, World News
Susan Moeller

Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.

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The Rotten Fruits of War

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat Valley Pakistan, South Waziristan, Drones, Pakistan, World Food Program, World News
Kathy Kelly

Whether it is in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, or even in the U.S., war takes it heaviest toll on the poorest. It is a profound mistake to believe that military force is a solid foundation for peace.

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