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ROME — Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published ...
Louis Belanger | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
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.
Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Where is our collective panic about climate change? Our energy consumptive lifestyles do not blink in the quake of devastating floods, receding glaciers and starving children.
Chloe Malle | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
International aid agencies predict this winter may bring the worst food crisis to Ethiopia since the infamous famine of 1984-85.
BBC News | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
The UN food agency says it is facing critical funding shortages that have forced it to cut aid deliveries to millions of people facing starvation....
Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
A troubling paradox reported out of Africa presents a new "silent killer" to join the ranks of HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, malaria, and river blindness: o...
LA Times | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with moti...
Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
A profound but underappreciated truth about globalization is the extent to which national security and international security have become inseparably linked.
Tom Gerety | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
It may seem sad that it takes an attack on a sports team to turn Pakistani nationalist opinion against terror. Yet there's real cause for hope in the sad news from Lahore.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 12.25.2008 | World
Even with availability of relief in the form of foodstuff, medicine, and fresh water, people in Darfur are dying -- being murdered -- on a scale never before seen in that region.
Johann Hari | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
To achieve the green goal of dealing with overpopulation, it's necessary to mix some oestrogen into the environmentalist palette.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
Since we didn't raise taxes in 2001, our time of surplus, those of us who do not sink under the coming depression, will wither under the burden of the coming inflation.
Gary Paul Nabhan | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green
The sad truth is that famines are shaped less by drought and more by inequitable political and economic access to seed diversity, technical assistance, and temporary food relief.
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AP | ARIEL DAVID and MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.11.2009 | World