Firms seek patents on 'climate ready' altered crops Rick Weiss  Washington Post May 13, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)  US using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops  Stephen J. Hedges Chicago Tribune May 14, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

Racist incidents give some Obama campaigners pause Kevin Merida Washington Post May 13, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.) 

Two hundred protesters from churches, unions and community groups marched and picketed outside the office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown San Francisco on May 5, Cinco de Mayo.  On Friday, May 2, the day after marches took place across the country for immigrants' rights, immigration agents arrested 64 workers at Los Balazos taquerias throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the employees had no criminal records, and were arrested for the crime of working to support their families. Photo: David Bacon

Study says immigrants to US adapt quickly N.C. Aizenman Washington Post May 13, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.) 

Gunmen kill three top Mexican policemen BBC News May 11, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

Bolivians to hold confidence vote on their president as he struggles to enact reform against wishes of people in  some resource-rich regions of Bolivia BBC News May 9, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

Mildred Loving and her husband, Richard, took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1967 struck down bans on interracial marriage. Photo: Associated Press 1965

Mildred Loving, 1939-2008: quiet Virginia wife ended interracial marriage ban  Patricia Sullivan Washington Post May 6, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)

Farm bill negotiators cut funds for overseas school lunch program, increase funds for US nutrition programs Dan Morgan  Washington Post May 6, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)

Pew Commission says industrial scale farm animal production poses “unacceptable” risks to public health, environment Hunger Notes April 30, 2008

McCain, Democrats present distinct choices on health coverage Michael D. Shear Washington Post April 30, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)  McCain talks poverty in Appalachia Maeve Reston Los Angeles Times April 24, 2008

For children, a better beginning: study finds progress on array of issues from birth to 10 Donna St. George  Washington Post April 24, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)

Leaders of Mexico and Canada back President Bush on trade Steven Lee Myers New York Times April 23, 2008 (You will leave this site.)  See Hunger Notes special report: Trade and hunger

A man places photographs of people murdered or missing, allegedly because of paramilitary groups, on the fence of the Costa Rican Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press

Cousin of Colombia's president arrested in death squad probe Juan Forero Washington Post April 23, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)

Former bishop wins Paraguay presidency, ending the Colorado party’s 62-year rule Alexi Barrionuevo New York Times April 21, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

Ecuador’s leader purges military and moves to expel American base  Simon Romero New York Times April 21 2008 (You will leave this site.)   More military aid stories

Defense Secretary Gates, Secretary of State Rice urge specific plan to integrate military activities and foreign aid, including 'Global Train and Equip'  Anne Scott Tyson Washington Post April 10, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)   US-trained Afghan commandos play growing role in fighting insurgents  Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post April 19, 2008 See Hunger Notes special report on development and military aid 

Jenna Kusek of Bethesda helps build a house during the three weeks she spent last summer in a village in Tanzania. Photo: Jenna Kusek/Washington Post

Teens on a mission: learning real-life lessons by volunteering abroad Cindy Loose  Washington Post April 20, 2008

What does hunger mean? (You can be  hungry and there is world hunger.  How are they related?) What percentage of the world's population is hungry? What does severe hunger feel like? Test your knowledge of hunger by taking our hunger quiz--topics vary weekly-- and during May Hunger Notes  will donate $.02 to Catholic Relief Services for its work assisting the people of Haiti. Take the quiz

World Hunger Education Service thanks the Williamsburg Community Chapel of Williamsburg, VA and Garner United Methodist Church of Garner, NC for their recent contributions to support our work

Parents wait anxiously outside the flattened Juyuan Middle School. Photo: AFP

Thousands dead in Chinese quake  BBC News May 12, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

In the village of Tanyukone, residents  buried a 6-year-old boy who died of a fever in the aftermath of the cyclone that devastated Burma. Photo: New York Times

Rulers keep grip on aid as Burmese cast votes New York Times May 11, 2008 100,000 could be dead in Burma, US diplomat says Ian MacKinnon, Julian Borger and Rachel Stevenson Guardian.co.uk  May 7, 2008 Burma's cyclone death toll soars to over 22,000 BBC News May 6, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

World food and hunger crisis

Global rice prices have increased by more than 90 percent in the last year. Photo: AFP

The world food and hunger crisis Lane Vanderslice Hunger Notes May 8, 2008 U.N. food aid funds growing, but needs growing too Missy Ryan Reuters May 6, 2006 (You will leave this site.)   Bush seeks more food aid for poor countries Steven Lee Myers New York Times May 2, 2008 (You will leave this site.) The new economics of hunger Anthony Faiola Washington Post April 27, 2008   See Hunger Notes special report: the world food and hunger  crisis

The Jem rebels are thought to have crossed into Sudan from bases in Chad. Photo: AFP

Sudan cuts Chad ties over attack, blaming Chad for helping rebels from Darfur to launch an attack on Sudan's capital, Khartoum BBC News May 11, 2008 (You will leave this site.) Old problems haunt new UN peacekeepers in Darfur Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times April 27, 2008 (You will leave this site.) More Darfur and related stories

 Kenya began an operation on Monday to resettle people displaced after the crisis that followed December’s disputed election. Photo: Guillaume Bonn/NYT

Kenyan government starts returning people displaced by violence to their homes and land--many still fearful for their safety Jeffrey Gettleman  New York Times, May 6, 2008 (You will leave this site.) Vastly expanded Kenya coalition cabinet costs $800 million, may require cuts in resettling the displaced and other key programs BBC News April 30, 2008 (You will leave this site.)  More Kenya stories

Woeser, 41, lives in Beijing and is the world's best-known contemporary Tibetan writer. Photo: Wang Lixiong

A lone Tibetan voice, intent on speaking out: writer seeks to chronicle events in areas hit by crackdown  Jill Drew Washington Post May 6, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)

A large number of Nepalese migrant workers in India returned to their villages to vote. Voter turnout was over 60 percent. Photo: Naresh Newar/IRIN

Maoists win Nepal assembly elections BBC News April 24, 2008 (You will leave this site.)  Maoists, former rebels, favored by Nepal's marginalized communities  IRIN April 27, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

In Sri Lanka, local government workers, like this man from the Colombo Municipal Council, are regularly deployed to spray insecticide in homes, gardens and along roadways islandwide. Photo: Christine Jayasinghe/IRIN

Eradicating malaria worldwide seen as a distant goal, at best  David Brown Washington Post April 26, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)  Sri Lanka: on track to eliminate malaria IRIN April 24, 2008 (You will leave this site.)

China denies investment in Africa is purely for its own economic gain. Photo: AP

Across DR Congo, independent miners dig in against multinational corporations Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post April 24, 2008 (You will leave this site, be required to register once with the Post, and thereafter sign in using your email address.)  China  steps up African investment by bankrolling  $1.8 billion copper and cobalt project in DR Congo BBC News  April 23, 2008 (You will leave this site.) More DR Congo stories

Supporters of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change were taken by police from outside the headquarters of the MDC, in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Friday. Photo: Associated Press

Zimbabwe government arrests election monitors and opposition political party members Celia W. Dugger New York Times April 26, 2008 (You will leave this site.)  More Zimbabwe stories