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• East Timor : “Seeds of Life” – a successful seed-relief program (CGIAR)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : CGIARhttp://www.cgiar.org/monthlystory/november2009.htmlStory of the Month: November 2009archiveA Microcosm of Global Food Security As government leaders gather for the World Food Summit in Rome during November, they would do well to consider the case of East Timor – viewing it as an instructive microcosm ...
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• FAO and EU : Seed and fertilizer to Pakistani farmers (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsPAKISTANI FARMERS GET HELP TO BOOST PRODUCTION FROM UN, EUROPEAN UNIONNew York, Nov  9 2009 10:05AMThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (<”http://www.fao.org/”>FAO) and the European Union (EU) have partnered to provide seed and fertilizer to almost 100,000 farmers in rural ...
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• How to Gain Mass – Solving A Different Kind of Weight Problem

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Learning How To Add Pounds of Muscle FastThis is for you poor souls that just can’t seem to gain a pound. And on top of that, you get no sympathy from the scores of people that want to lose weight and have no idea why you’d complain about not being able to put weight on.They [...]
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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 ...
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• Ethiopia: Land of silence and starvation

  
  Abbay Media — Authority: 431
  Geoffrey York MEKI, ETHIOPIAFarmer Geda Shenu, who lives in a drought-hit rural area near the town of Meki, Ethiopia, is struggling to feed his children and has petitioned for government assistance. The Ethiopian government has restricted coverage of the drought and is hampering the work of international aid groups.A ...
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• Cure of Shortage and Famine

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 118
  We have seen how the state planning for alleviating famine and food shortage fails miserably in a planned economy. Often in a mixed economy, government seeks proper control over the agriculture and food sector and that becomes the reason of corruption and further suffering at the times of need, scarcity and famine. On ...
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• Ethiopia Could Fail in Meeting anti-poverty goals

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 134
  (UPI) — The impact of the worldwide financial crisis could include preventing Ethiopia from reaching its anti-poverty goals by 2015, a United Nations official says. U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , Thursday the international economic downturn may leave Ethiopia ...
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• 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 ...
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• In the Bible versus the Quran: Why had the Woman cried to the King, “Help me!”

  
  One Stop Shop for Woman — Authority: 138
  According to 2 Kings 6:25-3 , the Bible mentions a horrible story; a woman cooked her son and ate him. When the king heard such a he tore his robes.  As the king was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help me, my lord, O king!”  This woman [...]
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• Feast or Famine: Replacing the Man

  
  Fantasy College Blitz — Authority: 435
  USC Matt Barkley (thanks Icon SMI) Entering the 2009 season, many players had to step up across the college football landscape in an order to fill the shoes of a departed hero on their campus.  Whether it was a Heisman finalist, #1 overall pick, or big playmaker, the following players replaced major impact players ...
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• MALNUTRITION AND THE HEARTBEAT FOR SCHOOL GARDENS (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Every now and then we read about the huge problem of malnourished children being at great risk of contracting infectious diseases.  Repeatedly the same causes are mentioned : lack of food, lack of knowledge of good nutritional practices, high prices for many basic food products, poor  drinking water quality and ...
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• MALNUTRITION ON THE RISE AMONG RURAL TAJIK CHILDREN (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNnewsMALNUTRITION ON THE RISE AMONG RURAL TAJIK CHILDREN, UN WARNSNew York, Nov  5 2009  2:05PMYoung children in rural Tajikistan are increasingly likely to be malnourished because of a lack of food, poor water quality and high prices for many basic products, United Nations aid agencies said today, ...
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• Not-so Dangerous Destinations

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Africa , Asia , Ethiopia , Laos , Haiti , Colombia , Central America "Youre going where?!" my father asked when I told him of my plans to go to Colombia. The Colombia he knows of, the one from the 1980s, is filled with cocaine, street violence, and Pablo Escobars thugs. The countrys days as a ...
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• 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 ...
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• In the Bible versus the Quran: Why the King did not help the Woman?

  
  One Stop Shop for Woman — Authority: 138
  According to 2 Kings 6:25-3 , the Bible mentions a horrible story; a woman cooked her son and ate him. When the king heard such a he tore his robes.  As the king was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help me, my lord, O king!”  This woman [...]
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• Compassion Responds To Ethiopian Famine

  
  WordJourney Magazine — Authority: 113
  With millions facing starvation, Compassion International continues to provide immediate support for Ethiopian children while contributing funds to assist small businesses. Compassion International, the Christian child development organization with more than one million children under its care, is responding to the ...
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• SOUTH ASIAN CHILDREN TRAPPED IN POVERTY (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsUNICEF SOUNDS ALARM OVER NUMBERS OF SOUTH ASIAN CHILDREN TRAPPED IN POVERTYNew York, Nov  2 2009  2:05PMSome 300 million children in South Asia, or half of the region’s under-18 population, suffer from chronic levels of poverty, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund ...
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• AVOIDABLE POST-HARVEST LOSSES WORSEN HUNGER (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsHUGE AMOUNTS OF AVOIDABLE POST-HARVEST LOSSES WORSENS HUNGER FOR POOR – UNNew York, Nov  2 2009  6:05PMThe plight of the hungry in developing countries is needlessly aggravated by farmers losing up to half of their crops after gathering the harvest, the United Nations agricultural agency said ...
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• Poverty: 300 million children in South Asia trapped in poverty

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Some 300 million children in South Asia, or half of the region’s under-18 population, suffer from chronic levels of poverty, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) study presented today at the opening of a conference in Bangladesh.To combat the enormous amount of poverty afflicting children, ...
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• November Flood Update

  
  Voice in the Desert — Authority: 99
  Another letter from Alan Dixon in Ouagadougou. If you would like to make a donation which will benefit homeless families and/or reconstruction, you can make a secure online donation here . In the box titled Missionary or Project Name, please type BF General 93918 Ouagadougou Flood Relief. Thank you so much. It is ...
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