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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
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Fact Sheet: Child Malnutrition
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
Poverty’s new reality; there is a lot less of it in the world
by Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz Washington Post January 25, 2011
The World Economic Forum convening this week in Davos, Switzerland, is organized around the theme of "Shared Norms for the New Reality." As in past years, the conference will feature plenty of debate about how to solve global challenges in a multipolar, interdependent world. This "new reality," howe...
Violent clashes mark protests against Mubarak’s rule
by Karim Faheem and Mona El-Naggar January 25, 2011
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of people demanding an end to the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak filled the streets of several Egyptian cities on Tuesday, in an unusually large and sometimes violent burst of civil unrest that appeared to threaten the stability of one of the United States...
Report: Urgent action needed to avert global hunger
by Pallab Ghosh BBC News January 24, 2011
A UK government-commissioned study into food security has called for urgent action to avert global hunger....
Haiti charges ex-leader Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier’, recently returned to Haiti, with corruption and embezzlement
by BBC News January 19, 2011
Haiti's former leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has been charged with corruption and embezzlement during his 1971-1986 rule, prosecutors say....
Tunisia leader Ben Ali flees and prime minister takes power
by David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times January 14, 2011
TUNIS — Tunisia’s president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled his country on Friday night, capitulating after a month of mounting protests calling for an end to his 23 years of authoritarian rule. The official Saudi Arabian news agency said he arrived in the country early Saturday....
Military backs new leaders in Tunisia
by David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times January 14, 2011
TUNIS — New battle lines appeared to take shape in traumatized Tunisia on Sunday as the military backed the nascent interim government in what state media portrayed as a fight against security forces loyal to ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, blaming them for the violence and rioting that ...
Behind Tunisia unrest, rage over wealth of ruling family
by David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times January 13, 2011
HAMMAMET, Tunisia — This ancient Mediterranean hamlet, advertised as the Tunisian St.-Tropez, has long been the favorite summer getaway of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his large extended family, many of whom have built vast beachfront mansions here with the wealth they have amassed during...
Freedom House releases report showing decline in democracy worldwide
by Hunger Notes January 13, 2011
(January 13, 2011) Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom House's annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in the nearly 40-year...
Tunisia’s and Ben Ali’s corruptions: the Wikileaks revelations
by Pierre Tristam About.com January 12, 2011
Tunisia is an odd, secular dictatorship. Its president is elected by popular vote to five-year terms. But the president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his ruling party, also choose their opponents, vet their campaign platforms, regulate their campaign posters and messages, and limit the election seas...
The ‘food bubble’ is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won’t save us
by Tom Philpott Grist January 12, 2011
For years — even decades — Earth Policy Institute president and Grist contributor Lester Brown has issued Cassandra-like warnings about the global food system. His argument goes something like this: Global grain demand keeps rising, pushed up by population growth and the switch to more meat-heav...
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