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Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA
An international school food-aid program backed by former Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Bob Dole would end under President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint, with the White House arguing its success isn’t proven. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, created ...
Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
For the first time since anyone can remember, there is a very real possibility of four famines — in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen — breaking out at once, endangering more than 20 million....
U.N.’s Famine Appeal Is Billions Shy of Goal
UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned 20 million people would fall into famine if his aid agencies could not corral $4.4 billion by the end of March. So far, the UNs has received less than a tenth of the ...
Global Food Policy Report 2017
This report is a review of major developments in food and nutrition policy around the globe, featuring an in-depth look at the impact of rapid urbanization....
UN agencies in Rome step up on gender equality to end hunger and poverty
Leaders from the three UN Rome-based agencies, FAO, IFAD, and WFP, today Marked International Women's Day by reinforcing their commitments to step up efforts to invest in the capacities of rural women as key agents of change in building a wo...
Quinoa genome unveiled in search for hardy crop to feed world
Some strains can tolerate 38-degree days, salty soils and high altitudes, say researchers. The near-complete genome of quinoa was unveiled on Wednesday by scientists who say the grain cultivated centuries ago by Incas in the Andes could help feed a hungry world....
Famine: what does it really mean and how do aid workers treat it?
Famine looms in Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The horrible, medieval fate of starving to death is once again a 21st-century reality. But what does the word famine actually mean and how do aid workers treat it? For aid workers, famine is the extreme end of a long spectrum of what is kno...
Four famines mean 20 million may starve in the next six months
More than 20 million people - greater than the population of Romania or Florida - risk dying from starvation within six months in four separate famines, U.N. World Food Programme chief economist Arif Husain says. Wars in Yemen, northeastern Nigeria ...
Why Do We Work So Hard To Hide Hunger?
A commentary by Princess Haya of Jordan, a humanitarian and UN Messenger of Peace. Each New Year brings with it a feeling of optimism, of hope and of change. Millions of us around the world make resolutions and promises to ourselves: to lose weight...
A Food Secure Future: Warding Off Instability And Conflict
On February 1, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs launched a new blog series, A Food-Secure Future, to explore the challenges that threaten global food security and the opportunities that exist....
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