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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 ...
Telegraph | Louise Gray | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
In a new report Save the Children claims that climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century[.]...
Dan Glickman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Norm Borlaug's life is both a symbol of what can be done, and a reminder of the enormous problem of global poverty we still face. Why not finish his work?
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...
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living
What is extraordinary about Drew Barrymore's involvement with the World Food Programme is that she has truly earned her title as Ambassador. Her life's mission: to make sure that no child is hungry.
Tod Preston | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
Ironically, family planning isn't seen as a sexy issue. And it wrongly gets mired in debates around abortion -- even though family planning reduces abortions.
WorldFocus | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
The small island nation of Haiti relies heavily on food imports, but with prices soaring, some Haitians are resorting to eating mud. The cookies --...
Colleen Perry | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living
If you haven't addressed the "why" for overeating in the first place, you will most likely go back to your old way of eating.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.06.2009 | Style
For me, on a cosmic level, the King's kitschy, tacky jumpsuits stand as a metaphor for the glitz and bling of today's hyper-consumerism
Caroline Gluck | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
2008 was an especially grim year in Zimbabwe -- and prospects for the coming year seem little better. The fact that Zimbabweans were celebrating the new year at all might seem surprising.
James Boyce | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
Right now, in Zimbabwe, a political and humanitarian tragedy, half the country is facing starvation. Not hunger, or shortage, but pure starvation.
Diana Odasso | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green
While the rest of the world goes through resources at an unprecedented rate and people starve in gigantic numbers, people on the Hawaiian Islands are beginning to do things differently.
The New York Times | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green
A three-day United Nations conference on spiraling food costs concluded late on Thursday with the delegates calling on countries and financial institu...
Peter Clothier | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living
It's started. The recent BBC World News report on the startling rise in basic food costs throughout the world is alarming new evidence of the trouble we're in as a species.
The Guardian | Chris McGreal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The effects of a decade of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing to kill about 45,000 people each month - half of them small chil...
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AP | ARIEL DAVID and MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.11.2009 | World