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Nearly 50 million people in the United States -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last
year to get enough to eat, Department of Agriculture says Amy Goldstein
Washington Post November 17, 2009
200
million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from
chronic undernutrition, causing one-third of deaths in children under five, the
United Nations Children's Fund says BBC News November 11, 2009
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Administration names agriculture official to run the United States Agency
for International Development, ending long delay Mark Landler New York Times November
10, 2009
Blackouts plague energy-rich Venezuela Simon Romero New York Times November
10, 2009

A grove of huarango trees sits amid the sand dunes at the edge of
Ica, Peru. The trees help balance the arid valley, capturing moisture coming
from the west. Nonetheless, villagers are cutting down the last remaining trees.
Photo: Tomas Munita/New York Times
The ecosystem in Peru is losing a key ally--the huarago tree Simon
Romero New York Times November 7, 2009
Cutting down huarango forests caused the collapse of the Nazca civilization 1500
years ago Jody Bourton BBC News November 2,
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US unemployment rate hits 10.2%; broader unemployment measure (including
discouraged workers and part-time employees who want to be full-time) reaches
17.5% David Leonhardt New York Times November 6, 2009
Why won't the Obama administration pay people to work? Alec MacGillis
Washington Post November 8, 2009 (opinion)
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Paraguay president sacks army head BBC News November 5, 2009 See
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Binding treaty no longer a realistic goal for climate summit, UN chief concedes
Ben Webster Times Online November 4, 2009 See
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Gunman kill union leader in Mexico Elisabeth Malkin New York Times
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Deal set to restore ousted Honduran president Ginger Thompson and Elisabeth
Malkin New York Times October 25, 2009 See
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Shane Palmer, right, kisses his fiancé, Maria Maior outside the
storage unit they are living in with her 12-year-old son in a northwest Chicago
suburb. The family of three splits time between their storage unit and motels
following a job loss and a string of bad luck.
Photo: David Pierini/ ChicagoTribune
Homeless students: increasingly, families taking shelter anywhere they can
Bonnie Miller Rubin Chicago Tribune October 28, 2009
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Food experts worry as population and hunger grow Neil MacFarquhar
New York Times October 21, 2009
Economy has left 1 billion hungry, UN says Ariel David Associated
Press/Boston Globe October 15, 2009
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Clinton Anchors, 18, in Medford, Ore., has been on his own,
living in the streets and camping in the woods since he was 12. Photo: Monica
Almeida/The New York Times
Recession drives
surge in youth runaways Ian Urbina New York Times October 5, 2009
How teens
in Medford Oregon who have left home get by (video)
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Fiser's mother wants him to return to school some day. Photo: BBC
Bitter
lives of Bolivia's child workers Andres Schipani
BBC News October 11, 2009
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Why won't the Obama administration pay people to work?
Alec MacGillis Washington Post November 8,
2009
Rebranding America Bono New York Times
October 17, 2009
Seeds of trouble: the top-10
agricultural biotech firms in developed nations control
67% of the global proprietary seed market Latha
Jishnu Business Standard (New Delhi) October
29, 2009 See Hunger Notes special report:
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and hunger
The
world food crisis: what is behind it and what we can do?
Eric Holt-Giménez Food First October 23,
2009
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(November 20, 2009) Dear Hunger
Notes, I would like to know the answer to some
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world hunger.
If keeping animals for meat and
dairy
products takes lots of space and raises the price of
crops, that could be fed to people instead of animals,
wouldn't it mean that world hunger would be practically
solved if the majority of people became
or vegan? Wouldn't the promotion of
veganism be the ultimate solution for world hunger? Which
method would help eliminate world hunger more, sponsoring a
charity or adopting a vegan lifestyle? more
(November 5, 2009) Dear Hunger
Notes,
I have been reading through the website, and I wanted to
know is there any way I can get more information on the fact
that starvation/hunger is a problem from not having water,
and solutions that could help to support the development of
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The Ogiek are traditionally forest dwellers, hunting antelope
with homemade bows and harvesting honey. In the past 15 years, because of
ill-planned settlement schemes (the government essentially handed out chunks of
forest to cronies), 25 percent of the trees in the Mau forest have been wiped
out. Photo: Tim Freccia/New York Times
Ogiek tribesman may be driven from their ancestral forest home in Kenyan plan
Jeffrey Gettleman New York Times November 14, 2009 See
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Niger's president, Mamadou Tandja, far right, next to Alain
Joyandet, France's secretary of state for cooperation. French president
Sarkozy promised “a new relationship” with Africa three years ago, saying it
would be “equal, and freed of the scars of the past.” His first cooperation
secretary, Jean-Marie Bockel, later reinforced the message, saying he wanted to
“sign the death warrant” of the old France-Africa relationship.” But Mr. Bockel
was soon out of his post after offending Gabon's President Bongo’s father with
his anticorruption declarations. His replacement, Mr. Joyandet, has been careful
to moderate his tone when speaking of African autocrats. Photo: Boureima Hama/Agence
France-Press — Getty Images
Anger against France grows in countries formerly part of France's colonial
empire as France sides with autocratic country rulers and not the people
Adam Nossiter New York Times November
10, 2009

World cereal production is at its second-highest level ever, yet
food prices remain very high. In Asia for example,
prices are
up 40-70 percent. Photo: Kamila Hyat/IRIN
World hunger increases despite growth in food production IRIN News November
12, 2009
We
can have food security, say two new reports IRIN News November
12, 2009

Lakshmi H.S., 19, checked medical records at a Rural Shores
outsourcing center in the Indian village of Bagepalli, where she has worked for
the last six months. Photo: Lynsey Addario/New York Times
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Rural Indian workers, earning $60 a month, get a chance to do work outsourced
from the United States Lydia Polgreen New York Times November
12, 2009
Slowed funding threatens AIDS fight, group says--recession, other factors
causing international donors to pull back Karin Brulliard
Washington Post November 5, 2009

Key ways in which current farming practices harm the earth
include loss of biodiversity, overuse of chemicals and pesticides, and loss of
plant and animal habitat due to the expansion of farming. The loss of
biodiversity as a result of current farming practices includes an estimated loss
of three-quarters of the genetic diversity in agricultural crops over the
last century. Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
Feeding the world without harming it IRIN November 3, 2009 See
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change
Current intellectual property
rights, especially those for GMO seeds, threaten poor farmers, food security and
the right to food United Nations October 21, 2009
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Energy from the Sahara plants is expected to supply Europe by
2015. Photo: BBC
Sahara
sun, via a proposed huge solar project, will help power Europe BBC News
November 2, 2009
Groundbreaking birth control bill that would make family planning services more
widely available to poor people has powerful enemies in the Philippines
Carlos H. Conde New York Times October 25, 2009

North Korea's military gets priority over civilians for essential
supplies. It also keeps the government in power. Photo: AP
UN
envoy calls North Korea's human rights record abysmal, saying one-third of the
country's population was going hungry needlessly, principally because of its
'military first' policy BBC News October 22,
2009
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The Congo Advocacy Coalition
report said disarming the Hutu rebels is a top priority - but that for every
rebel who has been disarmed this year, one civilian has been killed, seven women
or girls raped, and 900,000 people made homeless. Photo: AFP
UN drops
Congo army unit over killings BBC News November 2, 2009
UN
criticized for support of Congo offensive that caused widespread killings and
rape BBC News October 13, 2009
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