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How Food Assistance Can Contribute to Environmental Protection
Seeded on Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:39 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Food insecurity often goes hand-in-hand with environmental degradation. If the land is degraded or prone to natural disasters, less food is produced and significant food shortages can occur.
Home-Grown Solutions to World Hunger
Seeded on Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:13 AM EDT (WFP.org)
The most successful hunger solutions today are increasingly home-grown, the product of national governments and aid agencies working together to plan and implement projects tailored to the realities on the ground. Here are four case studies to mark World Food Day.
Live stream of Hillary Clinton receiving award for effort to end hunger
Seeded on Tue Oct 5, 2010 11:26 AM EDT (WFP.org)
At 5pm EST, you can watch Secretary Hillary Clinton accept the George McGovern Leadership Award, which recognizes policymakers and other leaders for their efforts to end global hunger.
10 Ways to Feed the World
Seeded on Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:50 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Can We End World Hunger? Yes We Can... "We can end hunger. Many hungry nations have defeated hunger. It doesn't require some new scientific breakthrough. It's not rocket science," said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. Here are 10 ways to feed the world.
How to handle assistance to returning refugees? The Burundi case
Seeded on Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:30 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Returning refugees present a different set of aid assistance challenges - in the case of Burundi, discreet ration card instead of a large package of food, beneficiaries are protected against risks associated with carrying large quantities of food over long distances.
How to handle assistance to returning refugees? The Burundi case
Seeded on Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:28 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Returning refugees present a different set of aid assistance challenges - in the case of Burundi, discreet ration card instead of a large package of food, beneficiaries are protected against risks associated with carrying large quantities of food over long distances.
Provocative Writing On Future Of Food Supply | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Seeded on Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:28 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Jeremy Harding has written the single most provocative piece I have read on the future of food supply – prompted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, and the quick awareness it brought of the connectivity between food production in places like Kenya and food consumption in plac …
Howard Buffett: "We Need To Connect Poor Farmers To Markets"
Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:01 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Quote of the day: "I may not be as good-looking as some of the other ambassadors, or as famous, but I have learned a lot from the field....
Global Food Crisis, and the US Response
Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 12:00 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
A close observer of current events could be forgiven for thinking that world hunger is waning, given that the issue has largely disappeared from headlines since the global food crisis that led to riots in 2008. Sadly, the opposite is true.
8 Things You Never Knew About Feeding The Hungry
Seeded on Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:38 AM EDT (WFP.org)
"Getting food aid to remote schools in Bhutan often means taking yaks on an eight-day trek through the Himalayas..."
Hunger: 10 Reasons To Face The Challenge
Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:32 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Most people think of malnutrition as not having enough to eat. But for many of the world's one billion hungry people, the problem is that they get too few of the minerals and vitamins that would allow them to thrive, physically and mentally.
Video - Women: the Front Line Against Hunger
Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 5:24 PM EST (YouTube)
International Women's Day 2010 on March 8 - Empowering women can break the cycle of hunger and poverty. Daily, women are on the front line against hunger. (Share this video with others?)
Haiti Earthquake: Aid Workers Personal Account
Seeded on Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:13 AM EST (WFP.org)
"Driving around the wreckage of Port-au-Prince, I keep on wondering what this city was like before – before the earthquake, that is.
Help Haiti Now!
Seeded on Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:48 AM EST (WFP.org)
World Food Programme has extensive in-country stocks of food, and some 200 staff on the ground, but the operating environment is extremely challenging due to the high levels of destruction caused by the earthquake and insecurity and looting that has followed.
No more sock or chocolate please!
Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 4:23 AM EST (WFP.org)
Annually, the international community spends sufficient to end world hunger. Let's start buying gifts that mean something to the world...
Shop against Hunger - buying a gift also helps feed people
Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 4:19 AM EST ()
While shopping for your holiday gifts, you have the chance to take advantage of great deals and help make the world a better place with Shop against Hunger.
Portraits Of Hunger: Shahida (Bangladesh) | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:36 AM EDT (WFP.org)
14-month-old Shahida has a healthy appetite and enjoys eating WFP's nutritious fortified blended food – straight from the container! This specially vitamin-enriched food is giving her a chance to put her acutely malnourished past behind her.
Portraits Of Hunger: Jennifer Kasani (Kenya) | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:35 AM EDT (WFP.org)
For years, Jennifer Kasani didn't have to worry about feeding her eight children – as the family's livestock flourished and tourists bought her beadwork.
Portraits Of Hunger: Francisca Casiano (Guatemala) | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:28 AM EDT (WFP.org)
This is Francisca Casiano - a 16 month old girl who's strong and healthy, unlike many other Guatemalan children.
Hungry Get Hungrier As Funding For Food Aid Stutters | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:11 AM EDT (WFP.org)
There are more hungry people in the world today than we have seen in living memory. In many developing countries the poor cannot afford to buy food. At the same time, economic woes mean that many rich countries have cut back on funding for food assistance.
World Struggling To Meet Urgent Hunger Challenge
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:40 AM EDT (WFP.org)
With a billion people on the planet going hungry every day, the world's response to the urgent hunger needs of the most vulnerable is flagging, with the result that critical food assistance is already being cut.
U2's Bono Rocks World With Hunger
Seeded on Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:06 AM EDT (WFP.org)
U2 frontman Bono Vox took the chance to get up-to-date on global hunger this week by chatting with WFP's Executive Director Josette Sheeran before going on stage for the Irish band's sell-out concert in Amsterdam.
Profile of an aid worker: Building Trust In A Danger Zone, Somalia
Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:20 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Providing food assistance to millions of destitute people in Somalia is a difficult and dangerous business. As Deputy Country Director for the last two years, Denise Brown, has found that to get the job done she has to be both tough and charming.
Remotest Hunger Spots: Taking to Nicaraguas Coco River to deliver food
Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:06 AM EDT (WFP.org)
Nicaragua's Coco River is a lifeline for the impoverished Miskito Indians who live along its shores – and the only way to deliver food aid to a population still recovering from the deadly 2007 Hurricane Felix.
Ex-Ghanaian President, John Kufour, is fighting world hunger
Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:02 AM EDT (WFP.org)
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor says he aims to inspire world leaders to ensure that every child receives the nutrition they need to develop their physical and mental potential.
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