What is this?
This is a "toolkit" of resources you can use to blog about hunger issues. It's updated regularly.
Why do it?
Over 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. In fact today, more people die from hunger related causes than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Word of mouth is a powerful tool in the fight against hunger!
The food price crisis, dubbed a "silent tsunami" for the world’s poor, is far from over. A recent study revealed that food prices are higher than they were 12 months ago in 46 developing countries. In nine of the countries, food prices are the highest on record.
The current economic crisis, first felt in developed nations, is now impacting on developing nations too. People living in these regions have much less to cushion the blow of an economic downturn and hunger is on the increase.
The combination of high food prices and the economic downturn has the makings of a humanitarian.
In the Horn of Africa, where climate change is aggravating the situation, the effects of the two crises are especially harsh. And as the global economic and financial crises compound the food crisis, hunger and malnutrition are likely to increase further.
Domestic food prices in about 46 developing countries are higher than 12 months ago
The number of chronically hungry people in the world, rose in 2008 due to the food crisis & is set to top 1 billion this year
Financial crisis + food crisis = 1.4 million to 2.8 million additional infant deaths by 2015
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