Hunger

"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Food Crisis, World Bank, G8, Hunger, World Hunger, G8 Fantasy Dessert, Food Prices, Green News
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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Hunger and the City

Lia Petridis | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York City Hunger, Sex and the City, Hunger, Food Stamps, Farm Bill, New York City, Politics News
Lia Petridis

A whole generation defines New York City by its glamour and "Sex-and-the-Cityness" rather than its obvious and fundamental problems. Why is hunger in New York City such a common phenomenon?

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Just Who's Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Hunger, Food Hoarding, World Hunger, Economy, Food Crisis, Food, Democracy, Food Prices, Environment, Green News
Frances Moore Lappe

The deepening high-food-cost crisis reveals the danger in an agricultural model dependent on imports. The end of hunger and real food security require provisioning from domestic resources wherever possible.

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Empty Shelves, Empty Bellies

Craig McCord | Posted 06.16.2008 | Life

Read More: Hungry Kids, Hunger, Poverty, Food Banks, Kids, Second Harvest, Hunger in the United States, Child Hunger, City Harvest, Food Shortages, Food Security, Life News
Craig McCord

By all accounts, the nation's ability to feed its own is at an all-time low. Many millions of Americans are but one happenstance away from calamity.

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A Hunger Conference with Canapes and Thinly Sliced Veal

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Italy, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Rome, The Environmentalist, World Hunger, Politics, Agriculture, United Nations, Green, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Business, Oxfam, Lifestyle, Drought, Hunger, Inflation, Famine, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Climate Change, U.N., Environment, Robert Mugabe, Global Warming, Green News
Janet Ritz

"Leaders can eat what they want as long as they take decisive action to deliver the policies and the aid in agriculture that is needed to ensure that poor people who are suffering from high food prices are helped," said Alexander Woollcombe, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam.

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How Do You Know When To Stop Eating?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 05.16.2008 | Life

Read More: Satiety, Hunger, Eating, Weight Loss, Health, How Much to Eat, Counting Calories, How to Lose Weight, When to Stop Eating, Diet Advice, Life News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

I grew up during a time when adults told you to eat all your food if you wanted dessert. Not only were we being taught to disregard our body's full meters, but also that the reward for overeating was more high calorie yummy food.

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The View from Haiti

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Global Food Crisis, World Bank, Food Prices, Food, World Hunger, Riot, Hunger, Haiti, Politics News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

It's the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands are looking for work, any work; work that might pay them enough to eat for hunger is on the march here.

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Is This The End Of Cheap Food?

Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: High Food Prices, World Food Prices, Commodity Prices, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Cheap Food, Food Shortage, Hunger, Business News

A sharp spike in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other staples has sparked riots in Mexico and Egypt, marches by hungry children in Yemen and the spe...

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Americans Stockpiling Food Staples As Prices Rise

Washington Times | Patrice Hill | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Food Shortages, Food Hoarding, Hunger, Food Crisis, Business News

Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to dr...

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Hunger Causing Rising Anger Across The Globe

New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Global Hunger, Hunger, World Poverty, Business News

Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. H...

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Holiday for Destruction

Heath Calvert | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Hunger, Poverty, Poetry, War, Politics News
Heath Calvert

Friends, acquaintances, countrymen, and assorted fellow humans. This is my first attempt at political poetic expression. I don't know what it is, bu...

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The Pricier Sandwich

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Bicycle, Hunger, Peak Oil, Food Prices, Business News
Anya Kamenetz

A little sign on the counter at our bakery warned customers that the price of flour, which was $8 a bag just a couple of years ago, had gone up to $30 a bag.

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Is Zimbabwe Heading Toward Great Change or a Colossal Fall?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Starvation, Elections, Hunger, Zimbabwe and Elections, Abuse, Rape, Human Rights, African Equality, Heroes, Zimbabwe, President Mugabe, Simba Makoni, President Bush, Grinch, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Robert Mugabe's reign of terror is so wide and so powerful, that it followed me into South Africa after my deportation from Zimbabwe.

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This Videogame Makes You Smarter and Helps the Hungry: The FreeRice Phenomenon

Dan Brown | Posted 01.09.2008 | Life

Read More: Philanthropy, Hunger, Developing World, Videogames, Nintendo Wii, Vocabulary, Freerice, Life News
Dan Brown

On FreeRice.com, you get smarter and do a free good deed from the comfort of your computer chair! And you'll impress your pals when you drop "abjure" or "loquacity" in conversation.

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Who Are These People?

Jane Smiley | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fertilizer, Starvation, Farming, Hunger, Africa, Famine, Malawi, World Bank, Free Market, Capitalism, Obesity, Politics News
Jane Smiley

The World Bank opposes fertilizer subsidies in order to -- well, it boggles the mind. In order to what? Get rid of the population? Degrade the soil beyond repair? I cannot think of any other reasons.

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Food Insecurity?

Richard Belzer | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Thanksgiving Hunger, Hunger, Child Hunger, Thanksgiving, Politics News
Richard Belzer

To lessen the Hobbesian barbarity of this administration's perpetual "war" on the disenfranchised is amongst its lowest and most loathsome rewriting of history and the truth.

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World Food Day: Weathering The Storm

Josette Sheeran | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Africa, Darfur, United Nations, Food, World Food Programme, World Food Day, Humanitarian Aid, Hunger, Politics News
Josette Sheeran

As we pause on World Food Day there are more than 850 million chronically hungry people worldwide. And the sad reality is that it is about to get worse.

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