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Global Food Crisis

You Can't Eat Potential

Glenn Denning | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

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Glenn Denning

The global epicenter of chronic hunger is Africa. The good news is that hunger can be ended within a few years with targeted investments based on our current knowledge.

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UN World Food Program Faces 'Dire Shortage'

BBC News | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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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....

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Ug99 Fungus: Wheat Stem Rust Threatens 80 Percent Of World's Wheat

LA Times | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

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The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with moti...

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Restoring Dignity to Zimbabwe

Louis Belanger | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Louis Belanger

While there is much talk about physical suffering like hunger and illness, we often overlook the psychological impact of poverty, particularly on the elderly and people with disabilities.

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Food Crisis: Global Warming's Biggest Threat

Seattle Times | Sandi Doughton | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

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When searing temperatures blasted Western Europe in 2003, more than 50,000 people died and harvests of wheat, animal fodder and fruit fell by up to a ...

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Financial Meltdown Escalates Global Food Crisis

Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha and Stephanie McCrummen | Posted 11.26.2008 | Business

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As shock waves from the credit crisis began to spread around the world last month, China scrambled to protect itself. Among the most extreme measures ...

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Food Fight - A "Vanguard" Special Report

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

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"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

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Frances Moore Lappe

We're facing the biggest human rights crisis of my lifetime: The U.K.'s ActionAid estimates that current price spikes may have doubled the number of hungry and food-insecure people to 1.7 billion.

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$30 Billion A Year To Solve Global Food Crisis, UN Says

International Herald Tribune | Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew Martin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

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Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world face the...

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The U.S. Farm Bill & the Global Food Crisis

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business

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Terra Lawson-Remer

U.S. food "aid" is more a vehicle to dump excess U.S. production than a benefit for hungry populations.

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Ethanol Production Forging Costly Link Between Food And Oil

Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business

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Ethanol was once touted (and still is by some) as an effective way to slow global climate change, but that effectiveness is increasingly being questio...

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Global Food Crisis Worst In A Generation, World's Poor Suffer Most

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business

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he globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it...

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