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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: hunger

hunger stories: 34 news summaries

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 Rice Is the New Oil 

Rising food prices threaten a more serious global crisis

Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people... More »

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China • food • United Nations • India • hunger • poverty • food prices • speculation • rice prices • hunger riots

 Food Crisis Is 'Mass
 Murder': UN Envoy 

Official blames multinationals for surging food prices

Apr 20, 08 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A UN envoy called the world's food crisis "silent mass murder" today and blamed multinationals for "monopolizing the riches of the Earth," Reuters reports. Jean Ziegler, UN food rapporteur, chalked up surging food prices in poorer nations to biofuels, commodities markets, and EU subsidies—meaning the West... More »

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food • United Nations • hunger • biofuel • starvation • food prices • Jean Ziegler

G-7 Leaders Offer No Fix for Credit Crisis

Ministers endorse more transparency, but not coordinated action

Apr 14, 08 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Group of Seven finance ministers ended 3 days of meetings in Washington yesterday by endorsing a plan to create greater transparency and oversight in financial markets to avert future crises, but no emergency measures to stem the current one. Despite a downbeat report on the likelihood of worldwide recession, and... More »

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hunger • World Bank • recession • IMF • credit crisis • Dominique Strauss Kahn • Group of Seven • hunger riots • financial crisis

 UN Pleads for $500M in Food Aid 

May cut food shipments to 73M hungry

Mar 24, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A United Nations food program has issued an extraordinary emergency plea for an extra $500 million in aid, warning that shipments to the world's hungry may be rationed if the money can't be raised over the next month, reports the Financial Times. The World Food Program feeds some 73 million... More »

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United Nations • hunger • European Union • Canada • Easter • oil price • USA • World Food Program • extraordinary emergency appeal • rations

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

Hunters Supply Food Banks as the Need Grows

Hard-pressed charities welcome protein as they face reduced shortages

Nov 30, 07 10:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Food banks facing shortages are welcoming game meat from hunters. Using the meat isn’t new, but this year the need is greater, as charities report more clients and reductions in their supplies, reports AP. One food bank in Montana received 7,500 pounds of game in 2006 and nearly... More »

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hunger • deer • hunting • food banks

35.5 Million Americans Going Hungry

Rising costs, stagnant wages threaten even worse news next year

Nov 15, 07 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - US programs failed to make a dent in the number of Americans going hungry last year, and activists warned that rising costs and stagnant wages threaten to increase the army of citizens struggling to put food on the table. Nearly 13 percent of households—35.5 million Americans, with 12.... More »

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food • FDA • hunger • hunger alleviation • US government • food banks

More People Skipping Basics to Pay the Bills

Analysts shocked as food banks run short, stores adjust prices

Oct 19, 07 7:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - More Americans are skipping breakfast and other basics just to pay the bills, the AP reports. With gas hitting highs this year and food prices up as much as 44%, even $35,000-plus wage earners are lining up for food, and food banks report acute shortages. One consultant says he... More »

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hunger • energy prices • recession • consumer prices • food prices • food banks • Family Dollar • 7 Eleven • Wal-Mart

Disease Fears Shadow Flood Victims

Relief workers struggle to supply food, medicine to waterlogged South Asia

Aug 7, 07 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Humanitarian efforts have come up short following massive floods in South Asia, sparking anger throughout the region. Hard-hit areas such as India's Bihar state have seen fighting over limited food and supplies, the BBC reports. An official in Bihar says relief efforts are now in “high gear,” but... More »

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India • hunger • water • disease • flood • Nepal • monsoon • South Asia

Price Cuts Ruin Zimbabwe's Economy

Mugabe's radical 'solution' to spiraling inflation backfires

Aug 2, 07 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A radical attempt to curb Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation by cutting prices up to 50% has backfired on President Robert Mugabe's government, which is now teetering on the brink of collapse, the New York Times reports. Store shelves are empty; bread, sugar, and cornmeal, the staples of Zimbabwean's diet, are depleted. More »

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inflation • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • hunger • gas • middle class • US economy • shortage • hyper-inflation

Ethanol More Mean Than Green

How biofuel steals from the hungry and hurts the environment

Jul 31, 07 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Far from the solution to America’s energy crisis, corn ethanol is “one if the great political boondoggles of our time,” Rolling Stone says in a scathing broadside. The “dangerous” and “delusional” hype over the corn biofuel raises the price of food for the needy... More »

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energy • environment • oil • hunger • global warming • ethanol • corn • biofuel • crops • farmer

Isolated Gaza Goes Hungry

Food is hard to come by for Palestinians in Hamas-controlled region

Jun 29, 07 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fuel shortages have become familiar, and now food staples like flour and sugar are increasingly hard to come by in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Aid agencies are doing their best to forestall an impending humanitarian crisis, the Globe and Mail reports, but with the main commercial crossing from Israel closed... More »

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food • Israel • Middle East • hunger • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Palestinian civil war • aid • refugee

UN Report: Climate Change Will Hit Poor Hardest

Poorest will be hit hardest

Apr 6, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Expect floods, droughts, fires—and resulting starvation, conflict, and mass migration—as climate change becomes more pronounced, says a U.N. report released today. And expect the poor to get hit the hardest, as deserts get drier, deltas flood more often, and small islands are overwhelmed. More »

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China • climate change • Russia • environment • United Nations • Saudi Arabia • pollution • hunger • drought • global warming • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • science • migration • United States • flood • starvation • fossil fuel

Kim Jong-Il
Ate My Giant Bunnies!

And German rabbit farmer is hopping mad...

Apr 5, 07 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Szmolinsky sent giant rabbits to North Korea to alleviate hunger, and Kim Jong-Il ate them. The German rabbit farmer suspects that the twelve "German Grey Giants" he sent to the country were eaten at a birthday banquet for the dictator instead of being used in a breeding program... More »

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philanthropy • North Korea • weird • Germany • rabbits • giant rabbits • international development • hunger • hunger alleviation • Kim Jong Il • Karl Szmolinsky

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