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Why boosting food output is not enough to beat hunger
16 Nov 2009 16:09:00 GMT
Author: Olesya Dmitracova

LONDON (AlertNet) - In a world that is producing enough food to feed everyone, why are one in six people going hungry?

Fighting rising hunger is top of the agenda at a summit hosted by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) this week which is discussing ways to boost agricultural output in poor countries.

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Can indigenous knowledge reduce climate disaster risk?
16 Nov 2009 11:50:00 GMT
Author: Jessica Mercer

I have just spent three weeks in Northern Kenya among the Borana people, followed by three weeks in Mindanao, southern Philippines, partly with the Higaonan tribe.

Vastly different countries yet I was immediately struck by the similarities in the challenges the communities faced, including drought, conflict, floods and general environmental degradation.

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Millions Fed: some solutions close at hand
12 Nov 2009 10:58:00 GMT
Author: Roberta Rampton

More than a billion people go hungry each day - about the same number as did in the late 1950s. That's both a "tragedy on a grand scale" and an "astounding success," according to a new report called "Millions Fed," produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

While the absolute number of hungry people is the same as it was 40 years ago, the proportion is dramatically smaller - one in six today, compared to one in three then, the report said. It illustrates 20 successful case studies where progress has been made in the fight against hunger.

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Drought threatens women and girls in East Africa
10 Nov 2009 16:10:00 GMT
Author: Minority Rights

Some months ago aid agencies began ringing alarm bells about the drought spreading across East Africa. The human and environmental toll of this year's prolonged dry season is now very apparent. Less known, however, is the impact the drought has had on women and children. Farah Mihlar, media officer with Minority Rights Group International, recently visited a tiny remote pastoralist village in Uganda's Koboga district, to find out how the drought is affecting people's lives.

The rains have finally begun to trickle down but they are late and still unpredictable. The prolonged dry season this year has already begun to affect this small cow-herding community in Kyarubangu village. Many families have lost their cows and faced food shortages. But these pastoralists, women in particular, tell me about the other less foreseen and far-reaching consequences of the drought.

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VIDEO BLOG: One child's story of hunger in Kenya
02 Nov 2009 11:02:00 GMT
Author: Save the Children

Abdullahi is 14 and lives in Wajir, in north east Kenya. Every day after school, on an empty stomach, he chisels through 20 feet of rock to try to build a well and save his family from drought.

It's a race against time to reach water and irrigate some of his family's small-scale farm. As he does this, the children of his village die around him. This is Abdullahi's story.

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