HUNGER

Hunger is the uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food, and the recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food. Hunger may be a consequence of food security. and may produce malnutrition over time. The Food and Agriculture Organizaton of the United Nations estimates that 963 million people are undernourished worldwide.

Bloggers continue to bring attention to the political and economic aspects of world hunger. You'll find them blogging about hunger issues at sites like End Hunger Blog, Freedom From Hunger, Blog World Hunger and Hunger Matters.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “HUNGER”

• Percy Zvomuya Gives Mostly Sticks to 5 Zimbabwean Books

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 433
  Verdict: sticks, in the main In Dambudzo Marechera’s classic House of Hunger, there’s a brief, intriguing episode involving a “star cut out of toilet paper”. As the narrator is trying to reach out for the star it wafts away. “It flew upwards …It floundered. It sailed straight for the window. On its ...
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• UN agency sees severe food shortage in North Korea

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 709
  Source: Reuters By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - North Korea is expected to suffer a serious grain shortage this year, well short of what it needs, a U.N. official who recently returned from the ...
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• NEARLY 5 MILLION ETHIOPIANS WILL NEED FOOD AID IN FIRST HALF OF 2010 (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 146
  Read at : UNNewsNEARLY 5 MILLION ETHIOPIANS WILL NEED FOOD AID IN FIRST HALF OF 2010, UN REPORTSNew York, Dec  8 2009 12:05PMSome 4.8 million Ethiopians will require emergency food and related aid costing $270 million for the first six months of 2010 in a country already plagued by prolonged drought and crop failure, ...
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• The link between undernutrition and climate change (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 146
  Read at : IRINGLOBAL: The link between undernutrition and climate change COPENHAGEN, 7 December 2009 (IRIN) – Seven children die of hunger every minute because they do not have access to treatment, but the impact of climate change on the drivers of undernutrition – food insecurity, health threats and water stress ...
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• A scary Tuesday night at the movies

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 526
  *  The rep of PG-rated horror these days couldn’t be much worse. So, I have no problem believing CHUDster Devin Faraci that a publicist sent out a blast e-mail crowing about the R-rating given to “ The Wolf Man ” for “‘bloody horror, violence and gore.” I’m excited enough about what appears to ...
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• Cinematical Seven: Most Fashionable Men on Film

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 751
  Tom Fords directorial debut, A Single Man , is opening in limited release this weekend, and even though the movie is strictly speaking the story of a man grappling with the sudden death of his young lover, theres no mistaking that a fashion icon is behind the camera. While period pieces usually get the most fashion ...
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• Honika Electronica Launch Party Dec 12 LA

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 477
  JConnectLA Official Honika Electronica Launch Party Music by: Smooth-E, DIWON, SoulSpeak, DJ Eric Rosen, Cajami Special Modern Tribe No Limit Texas Dreidel Tournament Party benefits the ‘Fed Up with Hunger’ Initiative Doors open @ 9 PM, A Cow Jumped Over the Moon 421 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 ...
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• Video Vault: Make Out Edition, Session 1

  
  Screamstress — Authority: 430
  Slumber party make out session in Jennifer’s Body ; Vicki makes out with her dad in Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II ; Yutte Stensgaard goes a little cross-eyed because of the bizarro music from ‘Traci’ in Lust for a Vampire ; The Hunger –more famous for its sexy time scene with Catherine Deneuve and Susan ...
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• Aqua Teen Hunger Force Wants You To Have A Very Meaty Christmas

  
  Dave and Thomas Daily Timekillers — Authority: 482
  The guys at ATHF know how depressing the holiday season can be, so they have apparently decided to make it funny by releasing their very own Christmas album titled ATHF: Have Yourself A Meaty Little Christmas . The album has some of the classic songs you love (kinda) like “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, “Feliz ...
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• Warriors of a Winter Food Drive

  
  TotalBroncos — Authority: 164
  With 155 boxes of food collected, Arapahoe High School was named the Tackle Hunger high-school champion for the seventh straight year. Darrell Reid and Wesley Woodyard headed a group that personally congratulated the students.
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• Breaking the biopic rules.

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 148
  Biopics are pesky things, full of impersonations masquerading as virtuoso performances. A recent exception was Steve McQueens "Hunger," which was ostensibly the story of Bobby Sands 1981 hunger strike, but which radically rewrote the biopic rules. Most of the dialogue was elided, and the contours of a simple story ...
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• Eggplant with mint… (WHB#213: mint)

  
  blog from OUR kitchen — Authority: 111
  summary: Eggplant with yoghurt mint sauce; information about Weekend Herb Blogging and mint; reminder that the BloggerAid-Changing the Face of Famine cookbook is now available; (click on images to see larger views and more photos)Weekend Herb Blogging (WHB)#213Mint (Mentha) And speaking of eggplant (we were, weren’t ...
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• ZIMBABWE: Survival farming

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 709
  Source: IRIN Poor farmers in the dusty village of Mandamabwe, in Masvingo Province, southeastern Zimbabwe, have resorted to a groundbreaking activity to salvage what they can of their 2010 harvest.
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• McQueen to helm FELA

  
  TFC Journal — Authority: 134
  Steve McQueen, director of the acclaimed British indie Hunger , has been tapped by Focus Features to direct a biopic of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, according to Variety . The film will be based on the book Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon , which covers Fela’s life, his ...
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• Samajwadi Party activists protest against Rahul Gandhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Kanpur, Dec 8 (ANI): Activists of the Samajwadi Party staged a protest here today against the two-day visit of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to Uttar Pradesh.They termed Rahul’s visit to the region as a mere show-off and said that he may be shinning in the boards and hoardings but not in the hearts [...]
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• TRS chief’s condition serious, protests continue (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hyderabad, Dec 8 (IANS) The health of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao, whose fast-unto-death entered the 10th day Tuesday, has begun deteriorating, doctors warned as protests demanding a separate Telangana state continued across the region.KCR, as Rao is popularly known, is at the state-run ...
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• Hunger Director Steve McQueen To Write And Direct Fela Kuti Biopic

  
  :: The Playlist :: — Authority: 693
  You know what gets us through the endless remake, sequel and superhero news? Stories like this. As we reported at the start of the year, Focus Features have picked up the rights to Michael Veals book "Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon," a biography of the great Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti. ...
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• TRS chief’s condition serious, asked to end fast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hyderabad, Dec 8 (IANS) The health of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao, who is on fast-unto-death demanding a separate Telangana state, has begun deteriorating and doctors have warned that continuing the hunger strike could endanger his life.KCR, as Rao is popularly known, continued the ...
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• Mumbai faces unprecedented water crisis

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 159
  BMC digs deeper to tide over water woes (Times of India) MUMBAI, India – Faced with an unprecedented water crisis, the BMC has started tapping its groundwater resources. Owing to the delayed and insufficient rainfall this year, the stock in the lakes in catchment areas is lower than needed. While the quantity of ...
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