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• Fight malnutrition with an Inspired Gift

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 124
  Nishi Kumar is working as an intern at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and blogging for Fieldnotes. Its the season of my favorite foods: turkey and mashed potatoes, holiday gingerbread cookies and warm pumpkin pie. With a fridge full of leftovers, it is almost impossible for me to imagine the reality of hunger. ...
  6 days ago

• American Hunger

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  “It’s embarrassing,” said Mr. [Greg]Dawson, 29, a taciturn man with a wispy goatee who is so uneasy about the monthly benefit of $300 that he has not told his parents. “I always thought it was people trying to milk the system. But we just felt like we really needed the help right now.” A group of friends of ...
  1 week ago

• WFP and Hunger in Kenya on NBC Nightly News

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 131
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy NBC Nightly News focused on rising temperatures and drought in Kenya last night with a report from the field. Severe, prolonged drought has left the land parched and unable to sustain the animals that many Kenyans rely on for food and ...
  1 week ago

• Urban Agriculture: A Response to Food Insecurity? Lubumbashi city, Democratic Republic of Congo

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Guinea pig keepers in the North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by Neil Palmer. Larger image here. By Nyumbaiza Tambwe Conference paperKMAfrica 2009 Dakar Excerpts: Introduction The paper attempts to establish a relationship between urban agriculture and food security. In other words, it ...
  1 week ago

• Housing and Hunger

  
  Institute Notes: A Dialogue on Overcoming Hunger and Poverty — Authority: 115
  Lack of affordable housing is directly related to child hunger, reports Children’s HealthWatch, a Boston-based group, in a new study. Indeed, this may seem like...
  1 week ago

• MYANMAR: Chin State – A Mountain of Trouble

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 454
  A view of the Chin hills Rong Long, Dec 7 : In the remote western Chin state, Ngite Pan, 46, ekes out an existence, feeding herself and her 15-year-old daughter by planting millet. Occasionally, she sells a traditional intoxicating brew called Khaung-Yay, also made from millet, which earns her about US$4 a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Farmers assert that genetically-engineered crops is not the answer

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  There is a price to pay for technology. Often, it is the environment, and eventually the world’s peoples, that pay this hefty price. ‘The costly development of technologies like GE as ’solutions’ to world hunger or climate change, mask their real socio-economic, environmental and political causes.’ Contrary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food Insecurity on the Rise

  
  Main Street — Authority: 130
  
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• What would you do with a million dollars?

  
  Capital Area Food Bank of Texas Blog — Authority: 114
  Elizabeth, 9, says she would give half to the Boys and Girls Club of South Austin and half to other charities. She lives with her parents and three younger siblings. She says one of the happiest moments in her life was when she met her father, previously incarcerated, for the first time at the age of four. “As ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rise in food stamp cases shows that many more New Mexicans are going hungry

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 604
  Photo by Mills Baker Here’s another sign of how the poor economy is affecting New Mexico: state data show that 70,000 more New Mexicans are using food stamps than just a year ago. According to data from the  New Mexico Human Services Department , individual use of the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Food Stamp Menu

  
  Forever In Hell — Authority: 473
  food insecurity, food stamps, poverty, [trigger warning: for those with ED, I will be reviewing nutrition facts for some crappy foods. If this will trigger you in any way, please to avoid the following post.] Wallet Pop asked a family on food stamps for a weeks menu . It is . . . revealing. This is a family of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hunger: We Must Do More and Better

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 130
  Editorial: Texas must fight hunger all year 04:00 PM CST on Monday, November 23, 2009 While millions of Texas households prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving with a hearty family meal, millions of their fellow Texans arent sure when or how theyll get their next meal. "Texans should be shocked that a state as ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Food Stamp Diet: Increasingly Popular, But How Healthy?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Health Care , Woman Up As this holiday weekend wrapped up, The New York Times posted an update on the rising number of Americans dependent on food stamps. According to the Time s , one in eight Americans are currently on food stamps, and the majority of them are children, with one in four ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Hope for Malnourished Mothers and Children

  
  Institute Notes: A Dialogue on Overcoming Hunger and Poverty — Authority: 115
  The Administration continues to refine its Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. The announcement at the G8 and subsequent emphasis on agriculture and food security...
  3 weeks ago

• The (Ugly) Face of Hunger in America

  
  LittleStomaks — Authority: 111
  During the month of December, I am going to focus on the problem of hunger in America, particularly childhood hunger. Although it may appear unrelated to the main topic of this blog, it actually is not. Whether it is because of over-abundance of food or because of hunger, poor childhood nutrition is a common concern. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hunger in America

  
  cookiesinheaven — Authority: 424
  Its disgraceful that Americans in this day and age cant afford to buy food without assistance. With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children . It has grown so rapidly in places so ...
  3 weeks ago

• One in Eight Folks….

  
  Blackgirlinmaine's Weblog — Authority: 121
  One in eight Americans are currently using food stamps to eat. Let me repeat that figure, one in eight Americans are using food stamp benefits, with one in four kids  receiving these benefits. This was the story that caught my attention this morning as I read the NY Times.  To be honest I am not even surprised at ...
  3 weeks ago

• SNAP to attention, America

  
  Institute Notes: A Dialogue on Overcoming Hunger and Poverty — Authority: 115
  The New York Times has a good article about the rising number of people enrolled in the Food Stamp Program, in fact, a misnomer the...
  3 weeks ago

• Pegasus Thanksgiving Report: Hungry North Texans

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 130
  This report appeared in Pegasus News , a Dallas on-line news service: Traditional Thanksgiving dinner too costly for some North Texans by Lena Dirbashi A few Thanksgivings ago, Andre Alston worked as a permanent substitute teacher at Dallas ISD. For years, he taught English, math, science, and reading. ...
  3 weeks ago

• More on spread of hunger in USA

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 130
  Thanksgiving 2010 :  Now this disturbing report from The Washington Post : Americas economic pain brings hunger pangs By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 17, 2009 The nations economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since ...
  3 weeks ago

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