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Food Bank Faces of Hunger – Senior’s
Hey, it sounds like this would be a really good time to turn Medicare into a voucher system, raise the retirement age and tie the Social Security cost-of-living increases to the chained CGI, so 90-year-olds don't have as much money to throw around! U...
China’s Left Behind Children
DEBORAH JIAN LEE, SUSHMA SUBRAMANIANWhen Huang Dongyan visited home to celebrate the Lunar New Year in 2011, her son refused to call her "Mom." Huang, 38, tried coaxing him with baby talk and tickles. But five-year-old Zhang Yi ignored her and buried h...
TEDxSF: Andy Sharpless- How to Feed the World and Save the Oceans
Did you know that protecting our oceans could be an answer to world hunger? A few weeks ago our CEO Andy Sharpless gave a talk at TedxSF about how saving the oceans can help feed the world. We think it’s a fantastic, thought-provoking presentation, p...
Samuel Loewenberg on the Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya
Pulitzer Center grantee Samuel Loewenberg talks about the challenges that refugees escaping famine in Somalia face as they cross the border into Kenya.
Food Shortages Most Pressing Human Rights Issue In DPR Korea – UN Expert
Chronic food shortages have become the most pressing human rights issue in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), an independent United Nations expert said today, warning that hunger could lead to serious health problems, especially among ch...
Drought Could Become a Catastrophe For 13 Million if Action Not Taken in West and Central Africa, Oxfam Warns
Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken. ...
LESOTHO: Weather Extremes Threaten Food Security
Lesotho is facing a food security crisis as changing weather patterns and poverty leave some smallholder farmers with no option but to abandon farming and sell their land. (..) Many subsistence farmers in Lesotho are still struggling to recover from he...
The Hungry Generation
A quarter of young children around the world are not getting enough nutrients to grow properly, and 300 die of malnutrition every hour, according to a new report that lays bare the effects of the global food crisis. There are 170 million children under...
Focus on the Food: The Middle East Looks To Sustainability for Answers
The rapidly growing populations of the Middle East and securing reliable and sustainable supplies of food to support that growth have loomed since the region's vast oil and gas wealth was discovered decades ago. (..) Today, there is nowhere near enough...
Poor Diet Kills 2.6 Million Infants a Year, Says Survey by Save the Children
Malnutrition is the root cause of the deaths of 2.6 million children each year, and the bodies and brains of 450 million more will fail to develop properly due to inadequate diet over the next 15 years unless immediate action is taken, according to a s...
