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Thought-provoking articles that deal with hunger and the issues involved in meeting the hunger challenge.
8 October 2010
"Show Them the Money"
“we” being the rich world -- asked the poorest countries to draw up comprehensive agriculture investment plans and tell us which were the highest priority projects to boost food production. Do that, we informed them, and we will help finance the projects from a new multi-donor trust fund called the Global Agriculture Food Security Program, or GAFSP.
Global Food for Thought
2 October 2010
Hunger pains
In his new book, Three Famines, Tom Keneally investigates mass starvations in Ireland in the mid-19th century and in Bengal and Ethiopia in the mid and late 20th century. Here he considers just how far hungry people will go to stay alive (..) The Red Cross and World Food Program estimate that the average healthy person needs 2010 calories of energy daily to do their normal tasks and resist disease. Yet one of the first coping mechanisms, from the cabins of Ireland to the huts of Bengal and the farmhouses and tuqals of Ethiopia, is to economise on the amount of food eaten, thus reducing the intake necessary for good health.
The Australian
21 September 2010
U.N. to Announce Aid for Women and Children
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to end a development summit meeting of world leaders on Wednesday by announcing a huge increase in aid to improve the health of women and children, but independent specialists said they were skeptical about the amount of actual new money committed, given the global economic crisis. Governments and private aid organizations committed to spending more than $40 billion toward that goal, Robert Orr, the assistant secretary general leading the effort, said Tuesday, and pledges were still flowing in.
New York Times
21 September 2010
Clean Stoves Clear Smoke For World's Poor
In the developing world, the smoke emitted while cooking leads to the death of one person every 20 seconds. Secretary of State Clinton is to announce a new initiative to renew the global commitment to safer cookstoves. An India company already is selling cookstoves in villages and showing the potential for changing traditional cooking techniques.
NPR Broadcast (USA)
15 September 2010
A calamity for disaster relief
Has the international community been too slow to respond to Pakistan's epic floods? (..) This is deeply problematic for the humanitarian organisations to which the world turns when people are suddenly uprooted by conflict or natural disaster. UN agencies like the World Food Programme (WFP) and Unicef are funded entirely through voluntary contributions. They set a budget for their regular programmes based on the money they are able to raise, mostly from governments.
Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/13/international-aid-and-development-unitednations
The Guardian