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• Hear the good news from Rome (Willem Van Cotthem)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  For many years scientists-members of the CST (Committee on Science and Technology) of the UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification) have been asking for strong UN-decisions to apply well-known success stories and best practices to mitigate drought, to combat desertification and to alleviate poverty.Repeatedly ...
  19 hours ago

• From Nairobi to Home

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
  Earlier this afternoon here at Friends of the World FoodProgram (Friends of WFP), I was able to participate in a United Nations WorldFood Program (WFP) Behind the Scenes: Live from Kenya conference call. While wehave all read about hunger in the news and have formed vague ideas about globalhunger issues, two Friends ...
  2 days ago

• WAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsWAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS; UN REPORTNew York, Nov  5 2009 11:05AMThe world’s farmlands can be the frontline for the fight against the impact of climate change and the battle to feed the mounting global population, according to a new ...
  2 days ago

• MWAHERA Food Distribution Center

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
  Food Distribution Center in MWAHERA On Tuesday, we visited a food distribution center in MWAHERA, where women from the surrounding area were picking up food provided by the World Food Program. Samuel Mwangi is the field coordinator for this distribution and he explained the process to me. Prior to distribution, ...
  3 days ago

• Visit to Kibera Slums, Nairobi

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
  Day 3: Visit to the Kibera Slums, Nairobi Today we visited a school located in the slums of Nairobi. Kibera, as the slums are called, is a community with its own police station and more than 200 schools. Over 1 million people live within a 1.5 square mile radius. A large percentage of its inhabitants are children ...
  3 days ago

• LPARDO in Kenya: HIV/AIDS Clinic in Khalifi- women and children

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
  Day 5 of this trip took place in the Khalifi District Hospital where they have a Comprehensive Care Center Clinic for Women and Children with HIV/AIDS. WFP is involved in food assistance programs for this group because adequate nutrition is especially important for patients who are taking Antiretroviral (ARV) ...
  3 days ago

• SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution – A world first project (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read as : IRINNewsSYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) – A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first.Under the pilot scheme, 1,000 Iraqi families [...]
  3 days ago

• WFP Visit to Kibera Slums

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
  Today we went to visit WFP programs located in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa with over 1 million people living in only 1.5 square miles. The Kibera slums began after World War II when the South Sudanese who were fighting for the British settled there. The settlement gradually ...
  3 days ago

• SENEGAL: Youth who refuse to farm (IRINNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINNewsSENEGAL: Youth who refuse to farmZIGUINCHOR, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) – Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal’s Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region’s fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, ...
  3 days ago

• UN AGENCY AIRDROPS CRITICAL FOOD AID TO OVER 155,000 HUNGRY PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN (UNNews / WFP)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsUN AGENCY AIRDROPS CRITICAL FOOD AID TO OVER 155,000 HUNGRY PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN SUDANNew York, Nov  4 2009  4:05PMThe United Nations has begun to parachute food aid into isolated areas of conflict-ridden southern Sudan with the aim of reaching more than 155,000 people cut off from road access by heavy ...
  3 days ago

• ACORN’s Tangled Webs

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  In one of our early postings we discovered how ACORN hides behind hundreds of different incorporated names and sets up dozens and dozens of LLCs and organizations that they hide behind in order to fool people into imagining they aren’t, indeed, doing business with ACORN. This is a story of one of those ...
  4 days ago

• Deborah Rose Becomes Staten Island’s First Black Council Member

  
  New York Politics | NYPolitics.com — Authority: 135
  Staten Island has long been unique in this racially diverse city: a borough where whites constitute the vast majority. But over the last few decades and particularly in recent years, people of other races have been increasingly calling the island home. From 1990 to 2000, the percentage of residents who identified ...
  4 days ago

• A Visual Feast in Vermont

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 130
      Tomorrow, Sue We sti n will hold the opening reception ofher art exhibit entitled “A Visual Feast,” which will include a mixer eventheld by the Manchester and the Mountains Chamber of Commerce.   A portion of the eve ning’s proceeds will benefitFriends of the World Food Program ...
  4 days ago

• Dispatches from the Front: The Queens City Council race.

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  Francis is far too busy helping candidate Angelo Maragos get elected today to post this stuff, so we’ll be updating these as we go along.  First one above the fold: if we’re blessed with a fair, clean election presence from the WFP/ACORN/Democrats, this will be the only one.  if not, updates will be under ...
  6 days ago

• Vote Democratic on Tuesday - November 3rd - 6 AM to 9 PM

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 480
  Let your voice be heard: VOTE on Polls open 6 am - 9 pm Tuesday, Nov. 3 Frank Gulluscio in District 32 Elizabeth Crowley in District 30 And the Democrats have some great City-wide candidates: Bill Thompson for Mayor John Liu for Comptroller Bill DeBlasio ...
  6 days ago

• Introducing Angelo Maragos, Republican for New York City Council

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  I think of the RedState community as my extended family, and I’m grateful to all of you for reading my past missives on markets and finance. I’ve been all but absent from the front page for months now, and I owe you an explanation. First, my businesses have been performing very well this year, and being a CEO is ...
  6 days ago

• Union-backed voter fraud plagues N.J.

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 509
  Front-groups color labor-state ballotsSo New Jersey voters arent smart enough to vote correctly. So they need a little guidance from union organizer-operatives in casting absentee ballots. You got a problem with that?from biggovernment.com:The first sign is a straight-up dirty trick. Daggett’s run for office is ...
  1 week ago

• NYC council hopeful pleads Fifth Amendment in lawsuit involving ACORN frontgroup Working Families Party [Darleen Click]

  
  protein wisdom — Authority: 140
  I earlier posted about this lawsuit as another Bertha Lewis headache. Via Moe Lane , comes this eyebrow-raising development A City Council hopeful won’t cough up documents related to whether the Working … [ visit site to read more ]
  1 week ago

• Breaking: WFP/ACORN Takes The Fifth On Corruption Suit.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 677
  It’s not that our opponents are geniuses at skulduggery.  It’s that they’re unaccustomed to being challenged on it.  When they do, they make mistakes : A City Council hopeful won’t cough up documents related to whether the Working Families Party is scamming the campaign finance system — because the case ...
  1 week ago

• Breaking: WFP/ACORN Takes The Fifth On Corruption Suit.

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  It’s not that our opponents are geniuses at skulduggery.  It’s that they’re unaccustomed to being challenged on it.  When they do, they make mistakes : A City Council hopeful won’t cough up documents related to whether the Working Families Party is scamming the campaign finance system — because the ...
  1 week ago

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