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• Spain Donates $112m to Fight Hunger in Horn of Africa

  
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  Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, has announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa. The announcement followed the UN’s three-day World Summit on Food ...
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• Fill a hungry belly this Thanksgiving (Friends of the WFP)

  
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  Read at : Friends of the World Food Program <info@friendsofwfp.org>Fill a hungry belly this ThanksgivingThis year has been difficult for many Americans. Job losses and the economic recession have pressed families to tighten budgets, postpone vacations and cut back on leisure activities. Those hit the hardest ...
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• Bloggers aid!

  
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  T oday , it is not a recipe post, but a post about Blogger Aid - an initiative taken by food bloggers across the world to create healthy recipes for the cookbook by Blogger Aid . For us, it all started with me browsing through blogs and finding out about this courageous initiative by Val ...
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• SPAIN DOUBLES AID FOR UN FOOD OPERATION IN HORN OF AFRICA (UNNews)

  
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  Read at : UNNewsSPAIN DOUBLES AID FOR UN FOOD OPERATION IN HORN OF AFRICANew York, Nov 19 2009 10:05AMThe United Nations World Food Programme (<”http://www.wfp.org/”>WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of ...
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• Rally at City Hall for Paid Sick Time Bill with Gloria Steinem - November 17th, 2009

  
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  Click here to view these pictures larger Gloria Steinems Call to Action; Chambers Fuzzy Math Just before the City Council held its first hearings on the Paid Sick Time act yesterday, Gloria Steinem joined over a hundred people who rallied on the City Hall steps to support the groundbreaking bill: ...
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• School Meals Program Pilots in Iraq

  
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  The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) launched aschool meals pilot program yesterday in Iraq to contribute to food security aswell as boost school attendance. The program will reach 172,000 children thisyear alone and hopes to expand next year to 960,000 children in some of themost vulnerable districts. The ...
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• SUDAN: Increasing hunger could fuel conflict in south (IRIN)

  
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  Read at : IRINSUDAN: Increasing hunger could fuel conflict in south POCHALLA, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) – An increasing number of people in Southern Sudan cannot find enough to eat or adequate pasture and water for their livestock, raising fears of conflict between communities over grazing lands, local leaders ...
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• Rome Food Summit and the self serving interests of the Food and Agricultural Organization

  
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  Which government action do you think keeps more people hungry and malnourished in the world: The lack of government funding for aid agencies like the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), or the agricultural trade policies of western governments like farm subsides? If you guessed the former rather ...
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• Humanitarian aid to Gaza up by 900 percent, says Israel

  
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  Jerusalem, Nov. 17 (ANI): The inflow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has gone up by approximately 900 percent in 12 months, the IDF has said.“We are investing major resources to enable the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Col. Moshe Levi, head of the IDF’s Gaza ...
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• To fast or not to fast, that may be the question (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
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  Did you too get FAO’s message on Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 ?“The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<”http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/37300/icode/”>FAO) on Wednesday called for a day-long, global hunger strike.“We are suggesting that everyone in the world who wants to show solidarity with the ...
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• Food prices, local and global

  
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  There was a brief window last week when every self-respecting news outlet in Australia was talking about an issue that concerns my wife and I greatly: food prices. For a short time it seemed that Australia was beginning to feel the impact of a crisis that has been knocking the poor parts of the world around for the ...
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• Food Bloggers Release Charity Cookbook to Fight Hunger

  
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  BloggerAid…Changing the Face of Famine, an international network of food bloggers united behind the cause of ending global hunger, is making its mark with the release of "The BloggerAid Cookbook." With over 130 recipes from contributors around the world, "The BloggerAid Cookbook" is perfect for amateur and ...
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• UNICEF URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION TO TACKLE FOOD SHORTAGES IN SOUTHERN SUDAN (UNNews)

  
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  Read at : UNNewsUNICEF URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION TO TACKLE FOOD SHORTAGES IN SOUTHERN SUDANNew York, Nov 12 2009  2:05PMThe United Nations Children’s Fund (<”http://www.unicef.org/media/media_51723.html”>UNICEF) has called for greater efforts to prevent the food shortages in parts of Southern Sudan, caused ...
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• Poverty, Credit and Kiva

  
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  Hartford Sixty odd students at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work along with people from the Working Families Party, ACORN, MoveOn, and so forth came together to learn about Professor Bob Fisher’s newly released edited volume, The People Shall Rule, and Citizen Wealth. Good pizza, good feeling, ...
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• Local Farmers Supply School Meals in Bolivia

  
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  One of WFPs goals in providing assistance to the hungry is to help them help themselves. Long-term programs like Food for Assets and Purchase for Progress are designed to create sustainable infrastructure and markets that can be maintained by local governments and communities. One community in Bolivia is already ...
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• Money for food or aid for a small kitchen garden ? (Willem Van Cotthem)

  
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  Please read at the website of WFP:http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes (What causes hunger?)“Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?In purely quantitative terms, there is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 6.7 billion people. ...
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• NY-23rd Not Over? (UPDATED)

  
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  They are still counting votes in NY-23. It turns out Hoffman might have prematurely conceded. Washington — Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for his campaign: He was down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted ...
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• Rarely does the food aid target nutrition needs and the most vulnerable groups (IRIN)

  
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  Read at : IRINCash does not always mean quality food aidJOHANNESBURG, 11 November 2009 (IRIN) – A move by donor countries to provide aid agencies with cash, allowing them the flexibility to source cheaper or more appropriate food in the region or beneficiary country and save on transport and warehousing costs, is ...
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• GLOBAL DAY-LONG FAST AS SYMBOL OF WAR ON HUNGER (UNNews)

  
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  Read at ; UNNewsUN AGENCY CALLS FOR GLOBAL DAY-LONG FAST AS SYMBOL OF WAR ON HUNGERNew York, Nov 11 2009  5:05PMThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for a day-long, global hunger strike in solidarity with the planet’s one billion people who do not have enough to eat, ahead of next ...
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• Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP - LCD display - TFT - 24″ - widescreen - 1920 x 1200 - 400 cd/m2 - 1300:1 - 3000:1 - 6 ms - 0.27 mm - HDMI, 2xDVI-D, VGA, DisplayPort - black - with Height Adjustable Stand and 3-Years Advanced Exchange Warranty

  
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  Product DescriptionThe UltraSharp 2408WFP 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor from Dell is a brilliant choice when you need exceptional clarity and vibrant color. Featuring a 3000:1 contrast ratio and 400 cd/m? brightness, the monitor boasts excellent color accuracy and uniformity. Additionally, a resolution of ...
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