The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union have teamed up for a special photo contest. People are asked to submit photos that tell the story of their family meal.
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
WFP asks world to support Syrian war victims
The coming new year tragically sees no end in sight to the war in Syria. This means that hunger will continue as well, threatening the lives of millions. Children will be at risk from severe malnutrition.
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Ohio hard hit by SNAP cuts
The Ohio Association of Foodbanks says the state is losing ground in the fight against hunger. More than two million Ohio residents are needing help from the state’s emergency food bank system.
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Ebola and famine threaten West Africa
The United Nations put out a warning today about the Ebola affected countries of West Africa.
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University leaders taking action against hunger
At the United Nations this week, university presidents gathered for a common purpose. Their mission is to fight for those less fortunate.
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Somalia facing a new year of tragedy
There is alarming news coming from Somalia. The East African nation, which just three years ago suffered a famine, is in danger of a new hunger emergency.
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Russia and WFP sign agreement to fight hunger
Russia and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) today signed an agreement on joint efforts to fight world hunger. WFP’s director, Ertharin Cousin, was in Moscow today to sign the agreement with foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
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How overdue books and parking tickets can feed the hungry
With 49 million people in America living with hunger, we need to find innovative ways to solve this crisis. Libraries and city government are coming up with some.
St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance
It’s called food for fines. Libraries are offering reductions in fines in exchange for canned goods, which are then donated to a food bank.
Jefferson County Library in Missouri has been offering amnesty the final Friday of each month this year. Patrons have gotten their fines erased and helped feed the hungry at the same time. A total of 6,543 canned goods have been collected for local pantries so far this year. They have one more amnesty day to go for 2014.
Other libraries have used this approach as well. In Cincinnati, Ohio they also have food for fines for parking tickets.
People with an outstanding parking ticket just need to bring 10 canned goods to city hall and get the $45 late fee waived. Then they just pay the original cost of the ticket. It’s not for people who have more than two tickets. In its first day the city has collected 300 canned goods for the Freestore Foodbank, the leading hunger relief agency in Cincinnati.
Thousands of meals are being donated because of these amnesty programs. It shows that a little goodwill can go a long way, and fight hunger in America.
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Ancient grain fights hunger in climate change
What has caused tremendous hunger and suffering in the Sahel region of Africa? Drought. With drastic climate change taking place, droughts are creating food shortages in this region.
There is a crop that has tremendous resistance to drought. It is called fonio. It is a small, but very nutritious, cereal. This grain has been around so long, there are even stories of how the universe originated from it.
The charity International Relief and Development is trying to expand the growth and sale of fonio in Burkina Faso, one of the Sahel countries. IRD is using funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress program.
They are helping farmers grow more fonio, and assisting them to sell it on the market. With fonio a bigger part of the farming strategy, they will have a food supply that can grow even during times of drought. Fonio requires little water to grow.
IRD thinks fonio can be spread to many more countries to help them adapt to drought. The Feed the Future program, which the Senate still needs to vote on, also supports programs to help farmers grow fonio.
This is another reason why food and agriculture programs need support. The Food for Progress and Feed the Future initiatives can help small farmers grow fonio and other nutritious crops. Farmers can grow more resistance to drought. That is a major step to ending hunger and the threat of famine.
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A gift of school meals needed in DRC
This fall, the U.S. ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), James C. Swan, redeclared a disaster in the African nation. Fighting continues to displace civilians and hunger is an extreme emergency.
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