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Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

By Carey Gillam November 3, 2011

In China, dairy cows revolve on carousels in synchronized milking, while in Kenya, small farmers are planting a new high-yielding sweet potato. These projects, and scores more, are shaping a new century of agriculture. Whether it be cattle herders in sub-Saharan Africa or rice growers in rural Asia, farmers and ranchers need help to produce

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North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

By Tim Large October 13, 2011

In a pediatric hospital in North Korea s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles, said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. We used

Opinion

Update From East Africa: People Pushed To The Brink

August 4, 2011

Canadian Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius is on a study leave in Kenya and Ethiopia. Last week he sent this observation from southern Ethiopia, which is experiencing its worst food crisis in 60 years. Unlike the major Ethiopia famines in 1972 and 1984, which were concentrated in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, this food

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More Than Six Million Need Food Aid In N. Korea

By Silvia Aloisi April 7, 2011

More than six million people in North Korea urgently need food aid because of substantial falls in domestic production, food imports and international aid, the United Nations said May 25. In a report providing a rare glimpse into the reclusive communist state, where a famine in the 1990s killed an estimated one million people, three

Opinion

Battling World Hunger By Increasing Global Production?

By Daryll E. Ray April 29, 2010

U. S. farmers began to believe that they had a responsibility to increase production and exports so that the hungry of the world could be fed. For some time now, we have focused our attention on the twin issues of production and exports of major crops as a way of examining the export-oriented policies that

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Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

By Alister Doyle April 8, 2010

Agriculture needs revolutionary change to confront threats such as global warming and end hunger in developing nations without adding to the ranks of the obese, an international study shows. The report says South Asia and Africa were “battlegrounds for poverty reduction” as the world population rose to a peak in 2050. Prospects for quick advances

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Foreign Farm Investors Must Avoid Resentment

By Asma Al Sharif February 18, 2010

Foreign investors must avoid provoking resentment as they buy and lease farmland from developing nations by using local manpower instead of industrialized agriculture, the head of a UN body said. Investors, mostly from the Gulf Arab region and South Korea, began buying and leasing farmland in developing countries in Africa and Asia to cut their

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East Africa Seen Needing Billion-Dollar Food Fund

December 3, 2009

The United Nations’ emergency food aid agency needs US$1 billion to feed 20 million people in east Africa over the next six months, it said Nov. 18. Around half of that money is needed for Ethiopia alone, Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of emergencies at the World Food Program, said on the sidelines of a

Opinion

Productivity, Sustainability Are Both Needed

October 22, 2009

Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency – even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity, and the climate is changing. (The following is an excerpt from a speech by Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft

Opinion

Starvation In An Age Of Plenty

By Ron Friesen September 24, 2009

Other countries’ domestic and foreign policies are often at the root of food disasters What is it about Africa? With its tropical climate and rich soil, it should be able to feed its teeming millions many times over. Yet too often Africa becomes a metaphor for famine and hunger. In 1984-85 a horrified world responded

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Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

Tag Archives Poverty

Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

Update From East Africa: People Pushed To The Brink

More Than Six Million Need Food Aid In N. Korea

Battling World Hunger By Increasing Global Production?

Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

Foreign Farm Investors Must Avoid Resentment

East Africa Seen Needing Billion-Dollar Food Fund

Starvation In An Age Of Plenty

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