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  • Will Africa's farmland become a "resource curse"? 25 Nov 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... Saudi Arabia to buy up or lease farmland in Africa. One thing that strikes me ... hear relatively little about the continent's vast agricultural assets—which wealthy investors are now busily snapping ... are part of the solution to the hunger crises at all: Last fall, Paul Collier ...

  • Hunger on rise 25 Nov 2009 00:10 GMT
    ... seemingly incongruous problem is also rising - hunger. A recent federal report on so-called “food ... highest rate since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began its Household Food Security survey in ... better low-cost and free foods at local farmer’s markets and food pantries. Programs such as ...

  • The shame of growing hunger 25 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... work to eliminate the growing problem of hunger worldwide. If morality is not sufficient motivation, ... not gone unnoticed. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) convened a World Food Summit ... summit did yield a pledge to help farmers in developing countries and to break the dependence ...

  • 12 tons of turkey donated to Hunger Solutions Minnesota (HSM) 25 Nov 2009 03:34 GMT
    ... donated some 12 tons of turkey to Hunger Solutions Minnesota (HSM) — enough bird to ... will send to market this year. Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson craddles a Minnesota-grown turkey ...

  • Hunger on rise in Vermont 25 Nov 2009 03:12 GMT
    ... the new report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 12 percent of Vermont households struggled ... highest rate since the USDA began tracking hunger in 1995. The Vermont ranking reflects the ...

  • Food security is ultimately defined at the household level 25 Nov 2009 01:56 GMT
    ... 2009 10:54 AM, By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ... the number of people who experience chronic hunger in developing countries. In our survey, we ... to understand how, why, and what local farmers produce. Crop varieties and food preferences often vary ...

  • What is wrong with African leaders? 25 Nov 2009 00:44 GMT
    ... living if the money is invested in agriculture, build canals, irrigation facilities and storage facilities, ... facilities and storage facilities, buy tractors for farmers so they can produce to feed nations? Are ... get satisfaction in seeing millions die of hunger, if no then why do they steal ...

  • Mr. President, It is time to reshuffle the Cabinet 25 Nov 2009 00:44 GMT
    ... the difficulties facing Ghanaians. Think carefully about Agriculture. Our farmers do not have the necessary accoutrements to ... while millions are on the verge of starvation then you know that it is better ...

  • Pope decries the cruelty of poverty 25 Nov 2009 01:14 GMT
    ... Opulence and waste are unacceptable especially when hunger - the cruelest form of poverty - ... speculation on food prices, aid that debilitates agricultural production and excessive exploitation of the Earth's ...

  • U.S. urges Americans to help feed their neighbors 25 Nov 2009 00:40 GMT
    ... time getting enough to eat last year. Every American can chip in to fight hunger, the Agriculture Department said as it unveiled the Obama Administration's new Feed a Neighbor initiative, encouraging ...

  • Apology Opens Wounds of British Migrant Program 25 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... Apology Opens Wounds of British Migrant Program Published: Monday, ... called advantageous. British children working at a farm near Parramatta, Australia, in 1953. One British migrant ... who bore “the physical suffering, the emotional starvation and the cold absence of love, of ...

  • Outdoors: Orkney's grey seal breeding colonies 25 Nov 2009 00:42 GMT
    ... Orkney beaches in November tend not to be the ... seal isn't likely to be abandoned or starving – or i ADVERTISEMENT n any need ... right up into the middle of a farmer's field. It's amazing just how far these ...

  • Stater Bros. Markets and Cargill Team Up to Donate 3,500 Pounds of Turkey to Local Food Banks 25 Nov 2009 00:41 GMT
    ... part of its national More To Share® hunger-fighting program, the producers of Honeysuckle White® turkey ... an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded ...

  • FAO to establish stronger system of global food governance 25 Nov 2009 02:10 GMT
    ... The Food and Agriculture Organization's top governing body has decided to ... policy convergence in order to eliminate world hunger," the FAO said in a news release. ...

  • How To Throw The Kitchen Sink At Lieberman and Nelson. 25 Nov 2009 02:31 GMT
    ... About Joseph Raglione Hi! I am the executive director ... prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing ... I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I ...


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