Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, called for more funding after an international aid appeal raised only half the money needed.
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Survival without adult supervision: stark reality in rural Bihar
Meena Devi is unlike any little girl you will ever meet. In many ways, she isn’t even a child. The afternoon we met, she’d cooked lunch for herself and her older brother. “I made dal bhat tarkari,” she said proudly, referring to a local dish of rice, lentils and seasonal vegetables. “But we are out of dal, so really, it was just bhat tarkari.” Meena also washes her family’s dirty clothes and drags her brother off to school every morning.
Ethiopia: Food security and the Meles’ legacy
During his two decades in power, Meles Zenawi committed himself to ending Ethiopia’s dependence on food aid. With his death, IRIN looks at his legacy in promoting food self-sufficency and fighting rural poverty in a country historically associated with drought and environmental stress.
The real Romney-Ryan budgets cuts aren’t to Medicare. They’re to programs for the poor.
I was pretty sure that when Paul Ryan got tapped to be Robin to Mitt Romney’s Batman, it meant we were in for some serious budget talk. Which was great! I love budget talk.
Ethiopian leader’s death highlights gap between US interests and ideals
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — There was probably no leader on the African continent who exemplified the conflict between the American government’s interests and its highest ideals better than Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia.
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian leader, dies at 57
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s repressive prime minister, who lifted his country from the ruins of civil war and transformed it into one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies and one of the United States government’s closest African allies, died on Monday, state television reported. He was 57.
Food: How bad is the crisis?
Lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 have been jumped on by the international media as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way.
15 innovations making school lunches healthier and more sustainable
As summer draws to a close, it’s time for kids to go back to school. Sadly, this often means a return to terribly unhealthy school lunches filled with fried chicken, pizza pockets, sugary drinks, and high-calorie snacks. School food can jeopardize the health and well-being of America’s next generation, but fortunately, it’s also the best place to start addressing the obesity epidemic—one in three children is obese or overweight, increasing the risks of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and liver problems later in life. This needs to change.
Beyond 7 billion: The coming wave of population growth will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries (series)
Global birthrates are falling. But with many in their fertile years and political and cultural forces against contraception, the population explosion is far from over.
Mali’s prime minister comes under growing pressure to form unity government after 50,000 protest
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