The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has created a new research tool focusing on how climate change impacts hunger. The Food Insecurity and Climate Change Vulnerability map will be unveiled Tuesday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21).
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On December 1 is Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving back and showing the true meaning of the holiday season. It’s a chance to fight hunger at home and abroad.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday it will be attending the climate negotiations (COP21) starting November 30. The conference will be held in Paris, France to seek solutions to the growing crisis of climate change.
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This Thanksgiving season take a moment and let your mind wander back to the autumn of 1947. That’s when the Greatest Generation again rose to meet a challenge and help those in need.
They started the tradition of setting aside a plate at the Thanksgiving table for a ‘silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.
See my full commentary at The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Robert Bradford was a messenger of hope. It was the Thanksgiving season of 1947 and Bradford, a descendant of the Pilgrims, made a special radio address to the nation.
The governor asked Americans to invite a silent guest into their homes for their Thanksgiving meals. This imaginary “silent guest” would be one of the hungry people in Europe.
See my full commentary at The Seattle Times.
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For the first time in months, food aid has reached Luhansk in the war-torn Eastern Ukraine. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today a 12-truck convoy arrived in Luhansk earlier this week. The trucks brought rations enough to feed 7,000 people.
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This Thanksgiving season take a moment and let your mind wander back to the autumn of 1947. That’s when the Greatest Generation again rose to meet a challenge and help those in need.
They started the tradition of setting aside a plate at the Thanksgiving table for a “silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.
See my full commentary at The History News Network
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in a press release yesterday, says that 3.9 million in South Sudan are living in hunger.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday the number of Ethiopians needing food aid to survive had risen to 8.2 million. This is a rapid escalation in hunger since the beginning of the year, when around 2.5 million were needing food assistance.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said this week it’s started a distribution of food to 7,000 war victims in Eastern Ukraine. Teaming up with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the food will be given to hospital patients and students.
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Author William Lambers 