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• Doctors without Borders in Somalia

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 611
  News of piracy and warring clans often overshadows another story out of Somalia: the suffering of ordinary Somali citizens, who often go without enough food, and without decent medical care. The Paris-based group Doctors with Borders, often known by its French initials MSF, has been operating a community hospital in ...
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• kwashiorkor

  
  RHFH Rescue Center — Authority: 124
  What is kwashiorkor? Click here Mackenson after 2 weeks on the medika mamba program.  He has gone from 19 pounds 8 ounces to 16 pounds 12 ounces. This is good not bad.  His little body is trying to recover and get back to normal.  He must lose this “water weight”  to begin the process. Interesting ...
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• African Agriculture Development Meeting Opens in Abuja

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The 5th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Platform Meeting opened on Monday in Abuja with more than 50 African countries and donor agencies in attendance. The meeting is being held in preparation of the three-day World Summit on Food Security in Rome (16-18 November) where ...
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• New approaches to malnutrition : Fortified flour and chewing gum (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINGLOBAL : Fortified flour and chewing gum – new approaches to malnutrition NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 (IRIN) – Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients and fortifying food in new, cost-effective ways, in combination with community outreach work, ...
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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 ...
  2 days ago

• Climate Change to Increase Malnutrition, Raise Food Prices, and Lower Crop Yields (IFPRI / CGIAR)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IFPRI / CGIARhttp://www.ifpri.org/blog/climate-change-increase-malnutrition-raise-food-prices-and-lower-crop-yieldsClimate Change to Increase Malnutrition, Raise Food Prices, and Lower Crop YieldsNew IFPRI Report Estimates US$7.1-7.3 Billion/Year Needed for Agricultural AdaptationSep 30, 2009 by Christina ...
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• Gilderson

  
  RHFH Rescue Center — Authority: 124
  Do you just ever had one of those day where you think, Hey God are you sure you got that one right?  My four boys that I had so much hope in and faith that they would all make it.  The four that have touched so many people and made us believe that things do go right and good things happen.  Well Gilderson is ...
  3 days ago

• EGYPT: Nearly a third of children malnourished (IRINNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINEGYPT: Nearly a third of children malnourished – reportEGYPT: Nearly a third of children malnourished – reportCAIRO, 5 November 2009 (IRIN) – Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report ...
  4 days ago

• Going home….

  
  RHFH Rescue Center — Authority: 124
  Jonas came in Aug of 2009 at 30 pounds.  He was suffering from kwashiorkor.  After being on the medika mamba program he lost some of his water weight and then gained some weight back.  He went home at 33 pounds. Louvens came to the RC in December of 2008.  He was 7 months old and wed 9 pounds.  He went home ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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, ...
  5 days ago

• United States Approves $400m Humanitarian Support for Ethiopia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The United States government has announced $400 million humanitarian emergency food aid for Ethiopia. “The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided $340 million in emergency and humanitarian food aid — more than 464,000 metric tons –and more than $60 million ...
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• Florida Sheriff Describes Baby Crime Scene Photos as Horrific

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 576
  When five-month-old Chauntasia Gardner was found dead by police on Sunday, she only weighed six pounds.  That weight is less than half of the normal weight for an infant that age. Her parents starved Chauntasia to death. The parents, 25-year old Tivasha Logan and 27-year-old Chauncey Gardner, are charged with ...
  5 days ago

• MAURITANIA: Malnutrition has no season in Nouakchott (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINNewsMAURITANIA: Malnutrition has no season in Nouakchott Nené Koné prepares a porridge of rice, fish and vegetables, to be distributed to children at the Dar Naim health centre in NouakchottNOUAKCHOTT, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) – At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of ...
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• Amazon’s low salt content keeps CO2 emissions at bay

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 5 (ANI): A new study has found that the Amazon jungle, the most robust of the world’s rain forests, suffers from “chronic malnutrition” due to a lack of salt, which helps to keep carbon dioxide emissions at bay.According to a report in the National Geographic News, researchers at the ...
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• Dr. Paul Wise: “The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes”

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and it bolsters other recent evidence ...
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• South Asians Primary Duty to Children

  
  Haq's Musings — Authority: 467
  Guest Post by Rakesh Mani There has to be something wrong with Indian society for it to allow its children to be among the most deprived and malnourished in the world. Across castes and social classes, there is so little attention given to the inalienable right of a child to enjoy a childhood of good health, ...
  6 days ago

• Breadfruit Coconut Curry

  
  Foodista Blog — Authority: 132
  Our omnivore’s attempt to go vegetarian for a week of Meatless Monday led us to the discovery of a new food – the breadfruit , native to the Pacific Islands. We’d seen it before in Asian markets, but for some reason, were never compelled enough to buy one. This week we finally did, and I have to say, it is ...
  6 days ago

• Climate change to kill a quarter million children

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) About a quarter million children could die of climate change and nearly 175 million children will be hit by disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts along with malnutrition and disease, a report released by an NGO said Wednesday.Launching a new report, “Feeling the Heat - Child Survival ...
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• Dr. Paul Wise: “The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes”

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 135
  Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and it bolsters other recent ...
  6 days ago

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