It was late afternoon and the young mother was hiding in the kitchen of her banana-thatch shack, lighting a cooking fire she hoped her neighbors would not see — she gets food aid while they must scrounge to eat.
The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs — he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly.
Former President Clinton told a U.N. gathering Thursday that the global food crisis shows "we all blew it, including me," by treating food crops "like color TVs" instead of as a vital commodity for the world's poor.
The European Union on Friday proposed a $1.6 billion two-year emergency fund to help poor countries cope with the global food crisis.
Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and other members of Nelson Mandela's global crisis task force turned their attention to world hunger on Wednesday, focusing on soaring food prices.
World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
For presidents and premiers at summits, delicacies washed down by fine wines are all part of the agenda.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, whose authoritarian rule has brought widespread hunger to his country, defended his policy of seizing land from whites on Tuesday, saying he is undoing a legacy of Zimbabwe's former colonial masters.
The World Bank said Thursday it was speeding up its aid to help an international effort to overcome the global food crisis by providing an extra $1.2 billion in grants and loans.
The World Bank is stepping up efforts to help overcome the global food crisis by providing an extra $1.2 billion in grants and loans.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged rich countries on Tuesday to end agricultural subsidies, and said he will press for a global trade agreement to help the world's poorest farmers escape poverty.
A five-year farm bill in Congress this week does little to address the growing global food crisis. Instead, it diverts money that could be spent feeding poor children abroad to give more subsidies for U.S. farmers now enjoying record high crop prices and incomes.
Liberia banned all food exports Monday, saying profiteers have been taking advantage of its cheap rice prices to truck the grain — already in short supply in Liberia — to neighboring countries to sell at higher prices.
Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.
Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a raft of other measures to head off a food crisis in Africa's most populous nation.
The Asian Development Bank announced emergency funding Saturday to help poor countries struggling with rice prices that have nearly tripled in four months.
Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is moving "at full speed" pushing efforts to tackle the world food crisis.
Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets.
As the global financial crisis deepens, hunger and malnutrition are likely to increase. Reduced incomes and higher unemployment mean the purchasing power of the poor diminishes. Already, more and more people are finding food is out of reach.
Unless water occupies a more central role in decisions regarding crises such as climate change and food security, a global water shortage could ensue — leading to political conflict and insecurity, says a new report.
As demand for water continues to rise and less is available for agriculture, "China will see a food shortfall of 5–10 per cent — a disastrous outcome in a country of 1.3 billion people — unless effective and timely measures are taken," said Lin Erda, one of China's top clim …
On February 18, 2009, three Kenyan activists were arrested and beaten by the Kenyan police after peacefully standing outside Parliament.
Presbyterians are rediscovering a spiritual practice usually reserved for Lent to pray, study an figure out how to act in response to the global food crisis. The upcoming 40-hour fast, starting on Feb. 27 focuses on Sudan and the issues of war, hunger and recovery.
Djibouti, in Africa's horn, is one of the country that I could come up with when asked to name the countries in Africa, so this news caught my eye.
More than a dozen countries on Tuesday committed €5.5bn over the next five years as part of a fresh initiative to alleviate global hunger and help impoverished farmers boost production of agricultural commodities.
The ancient civilization that thrived in the mountain valleys of Yemen was famed for cultivating bountiful crops with a system of cisterns and aqueducts, but today the country is threatened with a major food crisis that experts fear could destabilize the poor neighbor of the Midd …
During WWII, in the U.S. Victory Gardens were promoted by the government and spread around the country to bolster food production. Faced with the impacts of the global food crisis, urban gardening wards off hunger, ill health and poverty. Stories from southern Africa.
The media almost never talk about a hunger problem in the U.S. But according to "Household Food Security in the United States 2007," a report released this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 11.1 percent of U.S.
This is the summary of Paul Collier's essay for Foreign Affairs: " Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms, and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies."
Today nearly 800 million people around the world experience hunger. But no one needs to go hungry. There is enough food for all. One of the greatest obstacles to ending hunger is the way we think about it.
Rules on trading in commodities must be tightened to prevent a recurrence of the food crisis that saw prices soar over the past two years.
Statistics on the most recent global food crisis are well known. In the three years leading up to June 2008, food prices rose 83%. Although declining since, they are still 60% higher than in 2006.
The credit crunch is compounding a profit squeeze for farmers that may curb global harvests and worsen a food crisis for developing countries.
Let them eat potatoes: a way out of the global food crisis?
Getting back to basic truths. Family farming is good for the economy, the land, and for feeding people!
At first sight, it seems like good news for those fighting hunger around the world: the spikes in commodity prices that set off food riots this year have been all but erased amid the recent financial turmoil.
Peasant organisations and their allies have clear, viable ideas about how to organise production and services and how to run markets and even regional and international trade. Ditto for labour unions and the urban poor, who have an important role to play in defining food policy.
The British Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, now residing in the US, complains that President George W Bush was in office for more than a year before appointing a science advisor. In order not to believe in evolution you must either be ignorant, stupid or insane Professor R …
The link between fuel prices and food hits Malawi and many other countries hard. The Green Revolution exported a fossil-fuel based agriculture around the world, and multilateral institutions pushed an export-ag model which is causing untold hardships in Malawi and elsewhere.
During the eighteen months after January 2007, cereal prices doubled, setting off a world food crisis. In the United States, rising food prices have been a pocketbook annoyance.