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NEWS ABOUT: malnutrition

malnutrition stories: 12 news summaries

 UN: Hunger Affects Record 1B 

Food program directors warn that hunger crisis threatens world peace

Jun 20, 09 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - United Nations food officials warn that a record 1 billion people worldwide aren't getting enough to eat, the BBC reports. The UN said the number of people affected by hunger—defined as getting less than 1,800 calories daily—has jumped by 100 million people over the last year because... More »

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United Nations • hunger • starvation • poverty • food prices • Food and Agriculture Organization • malnutrition • World Food Program

India's Boom Does Little for Malnourished Children

42.5% remain underweight despite efforts to fix crisis

Mar 13, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - India’s economy has soared for a decade, but what its prime minister calls its “national shame” remains: malnourished, underdeveloped children, the New York Times reports. While growing China has cut its proportion of underweight children to 7%, India’s stands at 42.5%. Some say the government doesn’... More »

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India • hunger • economic growth • children • breast feeding • malnutrition • underweight


 Desperate Hunger 
 Plagues N. Korea, 
 Forces Change  

Rampant malnutrition fuels capitalist markets

Mar 6, 09 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea has, in its words, an “eating problem”: unable to feed its residents, it has become the world’s first nuclear-armed “beggar,” the Washington Post reports. Malnutrition has led to a spate of mental and physical disabilities—a quarter of potential troops will be disqualified because... More »

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North Korea • hunger • capitalism • Kim Jong Il • food shortage • malnutrition

 As Darfur Starves,
 Sudan Exports Staples

Exports crops to rich nations, still gets aid

Aug 10, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the UN trucks in food to millions of starving people in Darfur, Sudan is exporting important staple crops to other nations, the New York Times reports. Critics charge the government profits on big agribusiness while receiving more free food in aid than any other nation in the world.... More »

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United Nations • agriculture • Darfur • Sudan • trade • exports • starvation • malnutrition • food aid

Haitians Turn to Mud Cakes to Fill Empty Bellies

Food price hikes push everything but dirt out of reach for Haiti's poor

Jul 29, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Impoverished Haitians have been reduced to living off mud cakes, the Guardian reports. The cakes of clay and water—long eaten by poor pregnant women seeking calcium—are increasingly the only food many families can afford. The global fuel and food crisis has hit Haiti, and half the population is... More »

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hunger • Haiti • starvation • Caribbean • food shortage • malnutrition • food supply

 Aid Worker Murders
 Cripple Somali Relief 

As crisis reaches flashpoint, 'organized terror campaign' drives out help

Jul 20, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Aid workers are fleeing Somalia, even as global food prices soar and a full-blown famine is feared, in response to what officials say is an organized campaign of violence. Messages posted in the capital and sent to aid organizations threaten: “We know all the so-called aid workers. We promise... More »

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Somalia • murder • civil war • violence • aid programs • aid workers • malnutrition • United Nations Relief and Works Agency

UN Ready to Tackle Hunger

Ban plans task force, calls on donors to deliver on sorely underfunded pledges

Apr 29, 08 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is putting together a task force to deal with an "unprecedented" world crisis that's left 100 million without enough food, the BBC reports. Ban also called on donors to follow through on pledges for the World Food Program, saying only 62% of the... More »

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United Nations • hunger • malnutrition • World Food Program • Ban Ki-Moon

Food Crisis Lurks in Soaring Prices, Says
IMF Chief

Predicts widespread starvation, conflict

Apr 13, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rising food prices may soon have dire global consequences with starving people rioting in the streets, warns the head of the International Monetary Fund. “Hundred of thousands of people will be starving,” he said yesterday at a meeting in Washington. “Children will be suffering from malnutrition, with... More »

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food • ethanol • International Monetary Fund • protests • starvation • crops • price • food prices • malnutrition • trade affairs

'Hobbits' Were Just Short on Food: Scientists

Others say Indonesian remains were dwarfish new species

Mar 5, 08 2:00 PM CST
(Newser) - In a new volley in the back and forth over whether "hobbit" fossils found on an Indonesian island were a separate species, a research team says the remains are those of modern humans suffering from malnutrition-induced dwarfism. Iodine deficiency during pregnancy can result in humans growing less than 3... More »

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Indonesia • DNA • hobbits • malnutrition • Flores • Liang Bua cave • severe iodine deficiency • congenital hypothyroidism • dwarf • Homo floresiensis

Wealth Doesn't Always
Aid Health

UN finds child mortality rates uneven in
developing nations

Feb 18, 08 3:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Citing new child mortality statistics, analysts say a nation's wealth doesn’t always translate into better health for its youngest citizens, the BBC reports. Every year, 10 million children die before their fifth birthday, with 99% of the fatalities occurring in the developing world. But even when conditions improve, survival... More »

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health • India • wealth • Gordon Brown • Tanzania • Malawi • doctor • Nepal • Bangladesh • Save the Children • malnutrition • child mortality • Angola • ancient customs • Millennium Development Goals

45K Dying Each Month in Congo

Civil war's over, but disease, malnutrition keep killing

Jan 23, 08 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo officially ended in 2002, but it's still killing 45,000 people a month, a new study concludes.  Malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition caused by 10 years of conflict—not to mention continuing armed skirmishes in the east—have left 5.... More »

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malaria • civil war • war • infant mortality • Democratic Republic of Congo • pneumonia • diarrhea • malnutrition

Darfur's Displaced
Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

Sudan's 2.5M refugees struggle to survive

Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian. Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • malaria • refugee camp • refugee • Khartoum • Janjaweed • malnutrition

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