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• Kim Jong Il’s Trickle-Up Economics Starve North Korea’s Poor

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 578
  After the Great Confiscation was announced, the Daily NK had supposed that the poorest or North Korea’s poor wouldn’t be hurt as badly as those with more savings to lose. To its credit, the paper is now correcting that supposition, having grasped a concept that probably isn’t taught in North Korean schools — ...
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• Somali insurgents ban UN mine agency

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Nairobi/Mogadishu, Dec 17 (DPA) Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab Thursday said it was banning the UN Mine Action agency from operating in Somalia.Al-Shabaab, which is battling to topple the weak Western-backed government, said in a statement that Mine Action was paying the salaries of government forces and ...
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• Chosun Ilbo: North Korea Executes 12 After Currency Riot in Hamhung

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 578
  Now that many North Koreans have burned the savings that the regime suddenly declared worthless this month, the Chosun Ilbo reports that public outrage has forced Kim Jong Il to raise the exchange limit to 500,000 won. The decision coincides with the first report of a significant outbreak of anti-regime violence, ...
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• Great Depression II Alert: One out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says By Alan Bjerga Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report. Recipients of the subsidy for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 139
  A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.Recipients of the subsidy for retail-food purchases climbed 18 percent from a year earlier, according to a statement posted today ...
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• Johns Hopkins University Illustrations

  
  RAWTOASTDESIGN — Authority: 115
  Spot illos for Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine. The story was about three alumni who were recipients of Johns Hopkins scholarships, and what theyre doing now. One is working with women and infant health/childbirth issues in Latin America with a main concern on making her current hospital "mother and baby-friendly". The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Issues; Animal Agriculture; and SNAP (Food Stamps)

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate Issues: EPA Endangerment FindingJim Snyder reported yesterday at The Hill Online that, “The Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that carbon dioxide represents a threat to human health starts a process that regulatory experts say will take years to resolve.“Whether it becomes the ‘glorious mess’ ...
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• Donors And Governments Urged to Deliver on Promises to African Farmers

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 152
  Africa can farm its way out of poverty and hunger – if donors and governments keep their promises to invest more in the women farmers who grow most of its food, anti-poverty agency Action Aid said on Monday. “With one in three Africans chronically hungry, food aid is not a solution. Investing in smallholder ...
  3 weeks ago

• Also In Global Health News: U.S. Aid To Philippines, Swaziland, Guyana; Uganda Bills; Botswana HIV/AIDS

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  U.S. To Give Philippines $10M In Food Aid, Ambassador Says U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney said the U.S. will give the country an additional $10 million worth of food aid for people affect by the recent typhoons, the Manila Bulletin reports. This brings “the total amount of its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Food Stamps Matter

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  As government food aid is extended to more than ten percent of the population and as much as 40 percent of children in some towns, it’s odd that we’re not hearing well-fed politicians talking about a “government takeover of the food supply.” Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff of the New York Times have done ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hiding North Korea’s Health Decline

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 578
  According to a new report by the U.N. Population Fund, the socioeconomic gap between the two Koreas continues to widen : South Korea’s infant mortality rate ranked seventh in the world with four deaths out of 1,000 births while the North slid to 133rd place from last year’s ranking of 99 with 47 deaths per ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Issues; Doha; U.S. Ag Economy; SNAP (Food Stamps); Biofuels; and Food Security

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate IssuesJuliet Eilperin reported in yesterday’s Washington Post that, “By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved — including the money that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dragons and goddesses donate mugs for auction for Mary’s Meals

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 445
  Sounds like a fairy tale and maybe it is. A dragon, a domestic goddess, a money tree, a fantastical nanny and a storyteller - among others - have raided their kitchen cupboards to support the Dalmally charity Mary’s Meals this Christmas.Duncan Bannatyne, Nigella Lawson, Chris Tarrant, Emma Thompson and Alan ...
  4 weeks ago

• Feed Me, Seymour

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 578
  It’s a fine line between extortion and aggressive panhandling. Inexplicably, extortion and outright terrorism have failed to produce a financial harvest (until now, a perennial success) to make up for the agricultural kind (since 1993, a perennial failure). Suddenly, a slightly more obsequious North Korea is ...
  4 weeks ago

• ERS 2009 Farm Sector Income Forecast; Climate Issues; and SNAP (Food Stamp) Issues

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Editor’s Note: Happy Thanksgiving, FarmPolicy will return on Friday.ERS 2009 Farm Sector Income ForecastThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS) updated its 2009 farm sector income forecast yesterday.ERS stated that, “Net farm income is forecast to be $57 billion in 2009, down $30 ...
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• Photos from Chin Food Aid Concert in San Francisco

  
  Samaw.com — Authority: 133
  The following photos were taken from Chin Food Aid Concert 2009 in San Francisco on November 11, 2009. Chin artists are performing in a month-long series of Chin Concerts across various cities in the States. The next concerts will be held in Washington D.C. on November 27 and Atlanta, Georgia on December 5. It is [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Publications: Conference Reflections, Humanitarian Action/Africa, IDPs & Camps, Land & Conflict, Somalis/India

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 125
  Beyond IDP Camps (IntLawGrrls, Nov. 2009) [text]- Comment on the recent ICRC report on internal displacement in the context of armed conflict.Hunger, Disaster, Hope: Rethinking Humanitarian Action in Africa (IFRC, Nov. 2009) [text]Internally displaced people: facing up to the challenges (ICRC, Nov. 2009) [text]The ...
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• Wealthy Nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 123
  Karuturis chairman, Hanumantha Rao, says the firm has leased more than 20,000 acres of land. Ethiopias government, he says, has imposed few requirements on his firm. (Photos By Miguel Juarez For The Washington Post) Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia , locking in food ...
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