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"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

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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Good Grief, Gordon Brown!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Gordon Brown, Gas Prices, Biofuels, How to Solve World Hunger, Alternative Energy, World Hunger, Economy, Agriculture, World Bank, Environment, Global Poverty, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Google, Food, Food Prices, Politics News

By scolding Britons to "cut [their] food waste," Prime Minister Gordon Brown reinforces the dangerous myth that a shortage of food is the reason food prices have jumped.

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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

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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Hoarding Nations Driving Food Costs Even Higher

New York Times | KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 06.29.2008 | Business

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

At least 29 countries have sharply curbed food exports in recent months, to ensure that their own people have enough to eat, at affordable prices. Wh...

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The Free Lunch

ODE Magazine | Tijn Touber | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Chitranga Chaitanya Das, World Hunger, Akshaya Patra Foundation, The Giving Life, Living News

This article was originally published in ODE Magazine. He's in the Netherlands fundraising for new trucks and food processors, but in no time--and wh...

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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A Hunger Conference with Canapes and Thinly Sliced Veal

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

"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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America: A Moral Leader?

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drought, World Food Crisis, Ethiopia, World Hunger, Egypt, World Bank, Food Crisis, Food Aid, Haiti, Politics News

The world food crisis - the "silent tsunami" - now threatens some 100 million people across the world. The danger is real and present.

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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

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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