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• “The hungry cannot wait” (ENB / IISD)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at :World Summit on Food Security Bulletin· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·A Daily Report from the World Summit [...]
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• Meles accused of masking true scale of hunger crisis

  
  Abbay Media — Authority: 134
  By Hayley Jarvis for SOS ChildrenIn the next few months 6.2 million Ethiopians will need food aid, the United Nations will warn this week. But the country seems reluctant to admit to the rest of the world that it needs help. Twenty-five years since the famine that killed about one million Ethiopians, when Bob Geldof ...
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• Inventing Famines

  
  Esther Garvi — Authority: 127
  William Easterly, professor of Economics at the New York university, recently posted a piece entitled “Famine Cover-Ups vs. Fake Famines”. The Famine Scam that took place in Niger in 2005 is one of the two examples mentioned in this piece. Although the tone is politically correct, it raises a few questions on ...
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• If words were food, nobody would go hungry (The Economist)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : The Economisthttp://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14926114Feeding the worldIf words were food, nobody would go hungryNov 19th 2009 | ROMEFrom The Economist print editionInvestment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade“THE world’s ...
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• How to feed the world (The Economist)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : The Economisthttp://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=14915144Food and agricultureHow to feed the worldNov 19th 2009From The Economist print editionBusiness as usual will not do itIN 1974 Henry Kissinger, then America’s secretary of state, told the first world food conference in Rome that no ...
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• Fill a hungry belly this Thanksgiving (Friends of the WFP)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  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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• About the UN Food Summit (Helena, Newsy)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Message received :“Dear Mr. Willem Van Cotthem,I recently read your post about the UN Food Summit ending without settingspecific targets to end world hunger on Desertification. I think you willfind the following video relevant to your post:http://www.newsy.com/videos/empty_plates_at_the_un_world_food_summitThe video ...
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• Virginia: A Success Story in The New World

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 550
  The potential Virginia had to make fortunes was boundless. The success of many was due to the fact that they learned from their mistakes. The first group of settlers faced many hardships such as famine, the bitter cold winters, and diseases. Learning from their past mistakes they learned better ways to grow their ...
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• Diary that helped expose Stalins famine displayed

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalins murderous famine in Ukraine were put on public display for the first time Friday. Welsh journalist Gareth Jones sneaked into Ukraine in March of 1933, at the height of a famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. ...
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• SPAIN DOUBLES AID FOR UN FOOD OPERATION IN HORN OF AFRICA (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  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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• Profit hunger driving world famine

  
  A World to Win — Authority: 125
  The unchecked surge in the power of global agri-business is bringing the world to the brink of an unprecedented famine. At a world summit on food and agriculture which ended in Rome yesterday, the onus was placed firmly on the governments of developing nations to deliver food security to their people. The G8 countries ...
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• Up for grabs

  
  The Unforgiving Minute — Authority: 100
  My dislike of U2 operates on a number of levels. Like many entertainers with a political interest, they fail to realise that you can’t speak truth to power when you are yourself one of the powerful. The meaningless kerfuffle about tickets for their MTV Berlin Wall gig exposes the precarious position such people ...
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• Food aid that gets you two for the price of one (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : IRINFood aid that gets you two for the price of one JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) – Good quality food aid can save billions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on saving lives, says a major report from the World Bank, one of two new studies that uncover some unsettling facts [...]
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• ACCESS TO FOOD STILL DIFFICULT FOR VULNERABLE TAJIK FAMILIES (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : UNNewsACCESS TO FOOD STILL DIFFICULT FOR VULNERABLE TAJIK FAMILIES, REPORTS UNNew York, Nov 18 2009  4:05PMThe 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural ...
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• UN FOOD SUMMIT ENDS WITHOUT SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR ENDING GLOBAL HUNGER (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : UNNewsUN FOOD SUMMIT ENDS WITHOUT SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR ENDING GLOBAL HUNGERNew York, Nov 18 2009  5:05PMThe three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome today with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that ...
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• Stop the global land grab! GRAIN STATEMENT AT THE JOINT GRAIN-LA VIA CAMPESINA MEDIA BRIEFING

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  Rome, 16 November 2009                       http://www.grain.org/o/?id=87 ”The question we should be asking is not “How do we make these investments work?” It is “What farming and food systems will feed people without making them sick, keep farmers on the farm instead of the city ...
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• Ethiopia tries to cover up a new famine

  
  Abbay Media — Authority: 134
  Francis Elliott in Addis Ababa It wasn’t famine that killed Jamal Ali’s mother. She died in a cholera outbreak that swept through their Ethiopian village when at last the rains came. Twenty-five years later Jamal, now a parent himself, is lining up for handouts in a food distribution centre in Harbu, [...]
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• Ethiopia can’t make dreaded famine word go away

  
  Abbay Media — Authority: 134
  Despite its best efforts Ethiopia cannot make dreaded ‘F’ word go awayThe Times: Jonathan Clayton The country that boasts the source of the Blue Nile, tumbling out of the sparkling waters of Lake Tana, is synonymous in the West with drought and famine.No wonder Ethiopian government ministers cringe whenever the ...
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• Over Easy

  
  Haiku Comics — Authority: 124
  Copyright © 2009 Nathan Olsen and Robert Olsen. All rights reserved. | Permalink |Add to del.icio.us Post tags: famine , farmers , Humpty Dumpty
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• Ukraines forgotten famine | James Marson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  A political row over Russias refusal to recognise the Holodomor is obscuring the horror of a famine in which millions died Around a well-stocked Ukrainian dinner table one evening recently, I watched in surprise as a friends grandmother carefully swept together the breadcrumbs on the table in front of her, then ate ...
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