Tag Archive: Hunger

Mar 06

What You Need to Know About Hunger

Check out this latest video brought to you by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Ending Hungercampaign. The video highlights that to eliminate global hunger, we need to address the core underlying cause—poverty. Increasing global food production and food aid are not enough if basic rural infrastructure and employment opportunities are insufficient. Efforts to boost …

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Feb 21

Ending world hunger is possible – so why hasn’t it been done?

Save the Children is to be applauded for reminding us all of one of the most extraordinary and humiliating aspects of living in the modern world: child hunger.

Jan 05

UN expects more food price volatility, hunger in 2012

UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) director general Jose Graziano da Silva gestures during a news conference at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)  

Jan 05

New FAO chief moves on eradication of hunger

Jose Graziano da Silva has formally taken the helm of the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO.

Oct 31

Forests, Potential Solution in the Fight Against Hunger

Rome — The role of forests in providing timber and other wood products must not overshadow their important contribution to feeding many of the world’s poorest communities, a group of international forest organizations and secretariats said today.

Sep 21

Q&A: We need better ways to measure the world’s hungry – AlertNet

BOGOTA (AlertNet) – With food prices set to remain high over the next five years, the impact of the global food crisis on the world’s poor is an increasingly hotly debated issue. But estimates about the number of hungry people in the world are not accurate, experts say.  

Sep 21

Somalia: Growing Number of Lives At Risk

The number of people needing food aid in East Africa is climbing, according to the latest estimates released by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and is now up to 13.3 million people.

Aug 18

Policies imposed by developed world hurt Africa, agency says

Global policy is the main reason for famine and hunger in Africa, a Turkish business agency representative says. The agency has assisted African countries with agricultural development programs since 2005.

Oct 20

Hunger in Focus: On 30th World Food Day, 925 Million Still Hungry

The United Nations says the number of hungry people in the world has gone down by almost 1 million in the last year but the figure still stands at 925 million.

Oct 08

Slow implementation of farming policies fuels hunger in Africa

At the Africa Green Revolution Forum in Accra, Ghana, last month, agriculture experts and policy-makers urged governments to move in tandem with new technologies like mechanisation and scale up partnerships.

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