Worldwide Hunger & Starvation News – February 18, 2012
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“People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.” (Author Unknown ) Our hope is that as you review and read this weeks’ news, you’ll be able to see beyond your own personal keyhole.
Jason Straziuso writes in the Irish Examiner on Global Hunger.
Global hunger has fallen markedly over the last two decades, but the 2011 Global Hunger Index found that six countries have higher rates of hunger today than two decades ago……
5 Children Starve to Death Every Minute
In this PBS Special, Kim Lawton (Correspondent) interviews Dr. Rajiv Shah (Administrator for USAID) on the role that this U.S. organization is playing in fighting hunger.
Along the way, she literally couldn’t continue to carry both of her kids, and she had to make this gut wrenching choice about which child she would carry to safety and which one she would leave behind, and that’s the kind of decision that no mother should ever have to make….
Kathy Migiro, of Alertnet, discusses the continued peril in the region of Sudan.
Experts warn that a quarter of a million Sudanese could be on the brink of famine by March. War between the government and rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states means that few humanitarian agencies can gain access to those at risk…..
Jeanne Faulkner (Chairperson for CARE), writes in the Huffington Post about the current food crisis in Niger.
Most of us won’t ever know what hunger is. Not like people who’ve survived situations like the one building in Niger. Ask Dije Ousman when she was hungriest, she’ll say, “Today.”…..
Food Crisis or Ground Floor Opportunity to Save Mothers and Babies
William Brangham, of PBS, discusses the U.S. Food Stamp Program in this video documentary that aired Friday.
The number jumps out at you: More than 46 million Americans — one in seven of us — gets help from the federal government to feed ourselves and our families…..
From the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch, coverage of a Press Release issued by Feeding America regarding the Obama Administrations new budget proposal.
“Feeding America applauds the President’s new budget proposal for providing strong funding for federal nutrition programs, which help millions of struggling Americans put food on the table……
Chris Graham, of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, looks at food insecurity for the elderly in Florida.
Maggie Dodson doesn’t always know what the next day’s meal will be. She’s just grateful to have food on the table. For the mother of six grown children, making the most out of little is nothing new. But for many older Americans like Dodson, the threat of hunger looms larger than it has in recent history, according to a recent study released by the American Association for Retired Persons.
AARP: Threat of Hunger Looms for many older Americans
Are you aware that the U.S. Farm Bill heavily subsidizes corporations that provide food to SNAP? Michele Simon, of Food Safety News, looks at the Congressional Hearings that begin this week.
This week Congress begins hearings on the 2012 farm bill, the massive piece of legislation that gets updated about every five years and undergirds America’s entire food supply, but that few mortals can even understand. As nutrition professor Marion Nestle recently lamented, “no one has any idea what the farm bill is about. It’s too complicated for any mind to grasp.”…..
SNAP: The Other Corporate Subsidy in the Farm Bill?
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