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NEWS ABOUT: World hunger

World hunger stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - While world leaders waste bicker, the global economic crisis hurts more than your 401(k), Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times. The crisis will cause another 22 children to die every hour in 2009—and that’s the World Bank’s best-case scenario. So it’s really discouraging when... More »

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global economy • poverty • World hunger • bailout • G20

Asia Needs Funds to Battle Food Crisis

Development bank pleads for 'money
and ideas'

May 5, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asia need funds fast to prevent billions of people from facing severe hunger, says the region's development bank. The bank today appealed for "money and ideas" to stave off poverty in the wake of rice and wheat prices doubling over the past year, reports Reuters. "The global fight... More »

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World hunger • Asian Development Bank

Scientists Work on New 'Green Revolution'

Solving food crisis will depend on a steady diet of innovation

Apr 25, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Food scientists are plotting a new "green revolution" to solve a growing food crisis, LiveScience reports. Facing what a World Food Program official called a “silent tsunami” of world hunger, researchers are working on a sequel to the first "green revolution" of the mid-20th century, whose innovations... More »

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hunger alleviation • famine • biofuel • food prices • World hunger • Food and Agriculture Organization • food riots • hunger riots

UN Compares Food Crisis
to 'Tsunami'

International help needed before
situation deteriorates

Apr 22, 08 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rising food prices are creating a crisis every bit as deadly as the tsunami of 2004, and the situation requires a similar response, the UN says. Political and business leaders from around the world gathered today in London and heard the head of the World Food Program, Josette Sheeran, call... More »

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Gordon Brown • biofuel • food prices • World hunger • World Food Program

Climate Change May Trigger Crop Failures

Major food shortages predicted for Africa,
Asia by 2030

Feb 3, 08 9:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Climate change could cause severe food shortages in South Asia and southern Africa, two of the poorest regions in the world, by 2030, National Geographic reports. "We were surprised by how much, and how soon, these regions could suffer if we don't adapt," said one of the study's... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • farming • hunger • Southern Africa • crops • South Asia • World hunger • global food market

Norway Builds Doomsday Vault for World Seeds

Site beneath Arctic mountain will preserve all essential crops

Sep 22, 07 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Norway has built a giant vault under an Arctic mountain, where it will preserve seeds from 21 of the world's essential crops in case disaster strikes. The so-called doomsday vault will eventually store 4.5 million seeds from crops such as wheat and rice to use in the wake of... More »

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Norway • crops • World hunger • seed vault • seeds

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