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Spread of HIV Linked to Fishery Collapse: Is Fair Trade Fish an Answer?

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, Lake Victoria, Piracy, Fao, Sushi, Overfishing, Illegal Fishing, Fair Trade, Africa, Fisheries, Slave Labor, Green News

Importantly, the overfishing crisis is not just about food. It is, perhaps surprisingly, about HIV/AIDS.

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Hunger Can't Wait

Jose Graziano da Silva | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Fight Against World Hunger, Fao, Poverty, Fao Save and Grow, Women-and-Hunger, World Hunger, United Nations, Un Women, Fighting Hunger, World News

Today, some 1 billion people are still undernourished and many countries are far from achieving the first millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people living in hunger and extreme poverty by 2015.

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In Light Of World Food Day, Help Fight Hunger In Your Own Backyard

Enid Borden | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Hunger, Nutrition, Food Prices, Food Insecurity, Food Deserts, Food Swamps, Hunger in America, Meals on Wheels, Poverty, Senior-Hunger, Meals on Wheels Association of America, Enid Borden, National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, World Food Day, Fao, Impact News

I always thought it was true, but it is appalling to see it for oneself. In my hands were two grocery items - one snack-sized cream filled yellow ca...

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Accused Human Rights Violator Skips Out On Delivering UN Keynote Speech

AP | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Fao, Teodoro-Obiang, Fao Speech, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea, World News

ROME — An African leader whose regime is accused of human rights abuses sent a substitute to Rome to deliver the keynote address Monday at a U.N...

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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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Bacon Becomes The Latest Victim Of Skyrocketing U.S. Food Prices

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: CNBC.Com, Bacon, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, BLT Sandwich, Fao, Bacon Prices, Food Prices, Mr. Bacon Pants, Agriculture Department, Oil Reserve, Oecd, Strategic Bacon Reserve, Business News

Spiking food prices could mean that even some of the employed soon won't be able to bring home the bacon. The price of pork bellies, that part of t...

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Global Food Prices Only Getting Higher This Decade: Report

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Food Commodities, Cameroon, Egypt, Haiti, Fao, Food Prices, Energy Costs, Farm Commodities, World Commodity Prices, Oecd, Agricultural Output, Nicolas Sarkozy, Video, Business News

PARIS (Gus Trompiz) - World commodity prices will keep up their relentless push higher this decade compared to previous years, supported by burgeo...

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Global Poor Need Protection Against Rising Food Prices

Tom Arnold | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Global Poor, Poverty, Food Prices, Concern Worldwide, Hunger, Fao, Food Price Index, Global Hunger, Impact News

The signs now are ominous for us all with the FAO expecting the price of agricultural commodities to rise further throughout this year. This will put enormous pressure on the world's poorest.

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A "Sin Tax" on Meat Would Improve Our Health and Environment

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Fao, Vegetarian, Congress, Meat, Vegan, United Nations, Politics News

Americans have to pay an excise, or "sin," tax on cigarettes, alcohol, and gasoline. Why shouldn't we also have to pay more to purchase foods that cause animal suffering and pollute the planet?

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How to Keep Poverty Low

Devinder Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mdgs, Fao, Poverty in India, Planning Commission, Arjun Sengupta, Supreme Court of India, India, Global Poverty, Suresh Tendulkar, World News

In a significant move, the Supreme Court in India has questioned the very basis of counting the poor in the country. Realising that the poverty line i...

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Global Food Prices Hit Record High

Reuters | Svetlana Kovalyova | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North Africa, Global Food Prices, Food Price Index, Tunisia, Middle East, Egypt, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Oil Prices, Fao, Record High, Business News

MILAN (Reuters) - Global food prices hit a record high in February, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that fresh oil price spikes and stockp...

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The Epidemic Strikes Again

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Epidemic, Climate Change, Farmers, China, Food Production, Farming, Davos, Agriculture, Fao, Climate Crisis, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News

China is just the latest victim of the climate epidemic that it is taking its toll around the globe with palpable, often immediate disasters and human suffering.

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What If China's Drought Goes Global?

Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Wheat, Egypt, Cloud Seed, Fao, Hu Jintao, Tunisia, Boxer Rebellion, Silver Iodide, China Daily, China Drought, Global Times, China Wheat, Huang Chao, Wen Jiabao, Taiping Rebellion, World News

Given the global repercussions of a severe wheat shortage in China, Beijing's aggressive efforts to deal with the crisis should be welcomed by all.

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Price Volatility and Food Crises

Jacques Diouf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Trade, Population Growth, Investment, Speculation, Agriculture, Food Prices, Development Assistance, Political Instability, Hunger, Food Crisis, Fao, Jacques Diouf, World News

Must history always repeat itself? We are on the verge of what could turn out to be another major food crisis.

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Teetering on the Edge

Ben Grossman-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Food Prices, Tunisia, Egypt, North Africa, Algeria, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, Fao, Oxfam, Un, Policy, World News

The question of precisely how aid should flow to Egypt is surely too complicated for a blog post. But in addressing the structural problems, there are concrete policy prescriptions at our disposal

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It's (Partly) the Food, Stupid!

Barry Lando | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, High Food Prices, Fao, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt Protests, Commodities, United Nations, Agriculture, The Green Revolution, World News

Fueling protests across the globe have a common factor: rocketing food prices caused by a "perfect storm" of natural disasters, rising oil prices and rapacious speculators.

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Hunger for Change

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Riots, Fao, Eqypt, Lester Brown, Police, Tunisia, Food Prices, Ussr, Casablanca, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Food and Agricultural Organization, Politics News

Sharply rising food prices have often meant trouble for governments, especially when people expect better and the cost of food is a big fraction of a...

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A Global Food Fight

Robert Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North Africa, Biofuels, Tunisia, Food Crisis, Cottons, United Nation, Fao, Argentina, Vietnam, Global Food Fight, Armida S. Alisjahbana, Un Food and Agriculatural Organization, Ukraine, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, World News

The U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization is urging countries to refrain from actions that could exacerbate the current food crisis. Their advice, however, is being widely ignored.

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Another Food Crisis

Robert Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Food, Glenn Beck, Fao, Inflation, Food Crisis, Food News

For a full decade now, the world's farmers have not been keeping up with the world's growing appetite for food.

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Playing for Keeps: Students Who Rock Hunger

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: One Acre Fund, Agra, Heifer International, Des Moines, The World Vegetable Center, Iowa Farm Bureau, State Department, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Usda, World Food Prize, International Livestock Research Institute, Bread for the World, Agricultural Development, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Foods Resource Bank, Aplu, Howard G. Buffett Foundation, World Food Programme, Iowa State University, Rajiv Shah, David Lambert, Usaid, Catherine Bertini, Norman Borlaug, Fao, Global Youth Institute, Ruan, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, Alliance to End Hunger, Statistics, Business News

Last week, as Midnight Madness showcased college basketball players with visions of massive wealth and self-indulgence written all over their face...

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Deforestation Pace Slows Globally For First Time On Record

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deforestation Slows, Global Deforestation, Carbon Emissions, Fao, FAO Deforestation, Climate Change, Deforestation Carbon Emissions, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Forests, Deforestation, Green News

ROME (AFP) -- The worldwide pace of deforestation has slowed down for the first time on record, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on...

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Criminally Negligent Homicide: The Legacy of Wealthy Nations That Allows Millions to Die

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undp, Wfp, Fao, Yum! Brands, World Bank, TNT Group, Food for Peace, International Food Policy Research Institute, Howard Buffet, Ethiopia, The Green Revolution, Farm Bill, Josette Sheeran, Spencer Bachus, Roger Thurow, Archbold OH, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Scott Kilman, World Food Programme, Usaid, Norman Borlaug, Puchase for Progress, Alliance to End Hunger, Agra, Universities Fighting World Hunger, Business News

Two award-winning reporters have collaborated on a new book entitledEnough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. It is a page turner. Unless you simply don't give a damn, this is a must read.

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Growing Businesses in African Soil

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G8, Trade Missions, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Development, Agricultural Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Agribusiness, World Food Programme, UN Office for Partnerships, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Usaid, World Economic Forum, Fao, State Universities, Land Grant Colleges, Business News

It's in our own self-interest to jump start agricultural development with the goal of creating markets for ourselves.

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