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20-11-2009
The three-day UN summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome earlier this week. The host country has lamented that the high profile summit failed to produce either measurable targets or specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.
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16-11-2009
Two new reports have concluded that it is possible to ensure food security, if right kinds of policies are pursued. These reports by FAO and International Food Policy Research Institute document many success stories across the globe.
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Image: A little bit of initiative and sound policies will ensure everyone has access to food/ Photo credit: IRIN
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22-10-2009
In the largest anti-poverty mobilisation, more than 173 million citizens gathered at the Stand Up events around the globe last weekend, setting a new Guinness world record. Asia took the lead with 101 million, accounting for more than half of the global number.
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Image: Minar Pimple, Deputy Director, UNMC (L) and partner NGOs with signature cheque carrying the representation of 173 million citizens in the Stand Up campaign
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15-10-2009
The 2009 Global Hunger Index released by International Food Policy Research Institute shows alarming levels of hunger and malnutrition across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that economic downturn has severely affected purchasing power in low-income countries resulting in under-nourishment and high child mortality rates.
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Image: Africa is also home to the highest proportion of undernourished people/ Photo credit: Oaktree Foundation
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05-10-2009
The World Food Programme’s budget for Bangladesh is going to be severely affected due to lack of funding by donors. The global economic downturn is taking its toll on the UN agency that is heavily dependent on aid from wealthy nations.
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Image: Shuili and her daughter depend on food rations from the UN not to face starvation/ Photo credit: Al Jazeera
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27-09-2009
Mehbullahpur locality in the city of Lucknow in northern India has a population of about 50,000, comprising largely poor Muslims. Shakila Begum, with her team of 10 volunteers, is trying to bring change in their lives.
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22-09-2009
Anti-poverty network in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan organised a two-day consultation last week in New Delhi to review the United Progressive Alliance’s performance in first 100 days. Several speakers spoke of the anomalies in the government’s agenda and the need to keep pressure on it to take pro-poor measures.
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17-09-2009
The UN food agency is facing a serious budget shortfall with recession hitting food aid worldwide. While global hunger reaches an all time high, a UK based charity claims excessive consumption and food wastage in UK and US inflates prices and takes food out of mouths of poor.
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Image: World hunger has reached unprecedented levels/ Photo credit: WFP
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14-09-2009
Dr Norman E. Borlaug, the man credited with spectacular success in increasing food production worldwide, died Saturday night at the age of 95. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his ground breaking advances in agricultural practices, which later also came under attack from environmentalists.
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Image: Norman Borlaug/ Photo credit: Dallas News
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01-09-2009
Poverty reduction by half is still very much in the realm of possibility in Bangladesh despite natural calamities and soaring food prices in the domestic market, says Asia Deputy Director of UN Millennium Campaign, Minar Pimple. He believes that right policies and accountability are key to achieving this crucial MDG target.
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