Tag: food security
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Children starve as Zimbabwe’s grain goes to make luxury dog food
The Scotsman: Children starve as Zimbabwe's grain goes to make luxury dog food (HT: Presbyweb) THE state-run grain company in Zimbabwe has turned to making luxury dog food, while up to four million of the country's people starve. Doggy's Delight is a new product from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), the only firm to which…
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Development not stopping hunger, more than 400 million Indians malnourished
AsiaNews: Development not stopping hunger, more than 400 million Indians malnourished The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that 40 per cent of the world’s underweight children under five live in India. Add disadvantaged groups like the poor and women who have a hard time feeding themselves and you get 400 million people. Priests and…
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Rising food prices curb aid to global poor
Christian Science Monitor: Rising food prices curb aid to global poor Food commodity prices have risen by 21 percent since 2005, which will stretch aid groups' resources. Rising food prices are threatening the ability of aid organizations to help the world's hungriest people. Worldwide, basic foods now cost 21 percent more at the wholesale level…