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Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

Rwanda: Half of the Country's Children Still Suffer From Chronic Malnutrition

52% of children below the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition which results in stunted growth. It is one of the most striking findings of the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey. WFP country director Abdoulaye Baldé proposed to adopt improved seeds and fertilizers to reduce malnutrition.
All Africa
Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

Red Cross: Camps not solution for displaced people

It was late in the evening when the gunmen came, some on horseback, others on foot, to terrorize the residents of a small settlement north of Gereida in Darfur, Sudan.(..)The locals no longer fear failed harvests, as food is provided by the World Food Program.
CNN
Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

Best Green websites

The best advice online to help you live green, buy green and change the world one person at a time. (..) Play the free online quizzes on Free Rice (freerice.com). For every right answer, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Programme.
The Telegraph (UK)
Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

NPR - Ranks Of Displaced Yemenis Swell As Conflict Grows

In the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula, tens of thousands of people have fled fighting between Yemen's government forces and Shiite rebels. (..) At the World Food Program tent, a jostling knot of people seems like chaos, but it is an aggressively maintained line. These displaced people are waiting for the monthly food distribution of wheat, beans, sugar, cooking oil and salt.
National Public Radio (USA)
Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

Solutions to global hunger are within our reach

Technological advances in rice production have enabled China to feed an additional 60 million people per year since 1978, while investments in agriculture by farmers in Niger have revitalised an estimated 5 million hectares of land and improved access to food for at least 1 million people.
Reuters Alertnet
Hunger in the news
12 November 2009

Update on fighting hunger in Afghanistan and Iraq

In Iraq, the United Nations World Food Programme is set to start a school feeding program for impoverished Iraqi children on November 16th. The program was to get underway at the end of September but delays in food procuremement and customs delayed the start of the school meals which will benefit 170,000 Iraqi children.
Examiner.com
Aid professionals
11 November 2009

Making peanut butter gets stickier

Plumpy'nut, a widely distributed ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), has revolutionized the treatment of acute malnutrition, but its 12-year dominance is being challenged by a newcomer. The patents for Plumpy'nut - a blend of peanuts, sugar, milk powder, oil, vitamins and minerals - are owned by Nutriset, a French family-run business, and the Institute of Research for Development, a French public research institute.
Reuters AlertNet / IRIN
Hunger in the news
11 November 2009

Afghans reap bumper harvest

Majid can hardly believe his good fortune. He harvested so much wheat this year that he can feed his family (..). "We even have a surplus of 50,000 tonnes," he [Noor Mohammad, the chief of the agriculture department in Samangan] said. "We have asked the agriculture ministry and the World Food Program to purchase the surplus so people will be able to make a profit."
Asia Times Online
Hunger in the news
11 November 2009

Iron-fortified flour production gains pace

The mandatory supply of iron-fortified wheat by World Food Program has accelerated. The number of flourmills producing fortified atta has reached 92 in past one year, 40 of them in NWFP.
The News (Pakistan)
Hunger in the news
11 November 2009

Yemen Conflict Triggers Flood of Refugees, UN Says

Fighting in northern Yemen between government troops and Shiite Muslim rebels has forced thousands of civilians to flee in recent days (..) The World Food Programme said aid routes are unreliable and this week said their may be “widespread suffering” if it’s unable to re-stock supplies.
Bloomberg