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WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security.   Asit Ranjan Mishra Live Mint November 22, 2014 US-India agreement on stockpiles of food revives a trade deal Neha Thirani Bagri New York Times November 13, 2014  See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger

Three-month old Shukoria has severe malnutrition. Malnutrition affects more than 40 percent of Afghan children, killing thousands every year and leaving millions with permanent disabilities. Photo: Joe Dyke/IRIN

Afghan malnutrition—the search for solutions IRIN News November 11, 2014

US gives $27 million to help children in Laos eat and learn in school  World Food Program Thompson Reuters Foundation November 3, 2014

Farmers dig sand pits for growing pumpkins. Sandbar cropping provides an huge harvest of pumpkins. Photo: Practical Action Bangladesh

Farming on sandbars in Bangladesh  Nazmul Chowdhury and Nirmal Chandra Bepary Farming Matters September 2014

Families who live on ‘chars’ – river islands formed from sedimentation – are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. This family wades through floodwaters left behind after heavy rains in August caused major rivers to burst their banks in northern Bangladesh. Photo: IRIN News

Bangladeshi 'char dwellers' in search of higher ground Naimul Haq IRIN News October 27, 2014  Also see World hunger photos: the stories and images of people's lives

Malala Yousafzai, 17, said she was honored to be the youngest person to receive the award. She dedicated it to the “voiceless.” Photo: Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Two champions of children are given the Nobel Peace Prize Declan Walsh New York Times October 10, 2014  Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi has long campaigned against child labor Annie Gowen and Rama Lakshmi Washington Post October 10, 2014   Malala Yousafzai says she yearns to be ‘normal,’ despite fame — and now Nobel Richard Leiby and Karla Adam Washington Post October 10, 2014

A man stands in the middle of parched paddy land in the northern Kilinochchi District. Sri Lanka’s staple rice harvest is expected to record a loss of 17 percent from around four million metric tonnes in 2013. Photo: Amantha Perera/IPS

Sri Lanka: thirsty land, hungry people Amantha Perera Inter Press Service October 7, 2014

Child trafficking rampant in poor Indian villages K.S. Harikrishnan Inter Press Service September 4, 2014

North Korea’s capital, with its water parks and new buildings, coddles the elite  Anna Fifeld Washington Post September 2, 2014 See Hunger Notes special report Harmful economic systems: Obtaining income

Children study at a religious school teaching daily classes in Islamic studies at the Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp. More than three years after Burma began its transition from a military dictatorship, ethnic tensions and repressive policies threaten the development of democracy. Photo: Paula Bronstein/ Washington Post

Malnutrition, disease rising in camps of Burma's Rohingya Muslims, who are virtual prisoners in the camps Annie Gowen Washington Post July 29, 2014

Hindu devotees bathed in the polluted waters of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Millions of pilgrims bathe along Varanasi’s ancient riverfront, but a stream of human waste flows directly into the river just above the bathing ghats, steps leading down to the river. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/New York Times

Poor sanitation in India may affect well-fed children with malnutrition Gardiner Harris New York Times July 13, 2014 See more nutrition stories

Education of mothers is one key. Photo: Kyle Knight/IRIN

More investment needed to reduce high levels of stunting in Timor-Leste IRIN News May 29, 2014

"Land grabs" in Laos are driving poor farmers, including ethnic minorities, off their land, away from livelihoods they know and into further poverty, activists and experts say. Photo: Martin Abbiati/IRIN

Laos “land grabs” drive subsistence farmers into deeper poverty Dana MacLean IRIN News May 22, 2014 See Hunger Notes special report: Harmful economic systems: obtaining income

Thai military declares a coup, detains key political leaders Chico Harlan and Lennox Samuels Washington Post May 22, 2014  Also see Class war: Thailand’s military coup. Outnumbered by the country's rural voters, Thailand's once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda. Walden Bello Foreign Policy In Focus May 27, 2014 See Hunger Notes special report: Harmful eocnomic systems: Keeping people oppressed

CIA: No more vaccination campaigns in spy operations Lena H Sun Washington Post May 19, 2014 Polio's return after near eradication prompts global health warning  Donald G McNeil Jr  New York Times May 5, 2014 Disease of Pakistan's poor now worries the affluent Saba Imtiaz and Declan Walsh New York Times May 10, 2014 See more nutrition and health stories

Big budgets, little oversight in war zones Scott Higham, Jessica Schulberg and Steven Rich Washington Post May 4, 2014 See more development assistance stories

Bangladesh, with its low elevation and severe tropical storms, is among the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, though it has contributed little to the emissions that are driving it. Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen/New York Times

Borrowed time on disappearing land: Facing rising seas, Bangladesh confronts the consequences of climate change Gardiner Harris New York Times March 28, 2014  See Hunger Notes special report Hunger, the Environment and Climate Change

Bangladesh is a rare Muslim-majority democracy with a growing economy. But the country is at risk as a prolonged political feud continues to generate violence. Photo: A.M. Ahad/Associated Press

Bangladesh’s political unrest threatens economic gains, democracy Anne Gowan Washington Post March 22, 2014

An employee of the Hattigor Tea Estate, which is owned by Amalgamated Plantations, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam in December. Photo: Himanshu Khagta/New York Times

Hope, and homes, crumbling on many Indian tea plantations Max Bearak New York Times February 13, 2014

IMF director cites dangerous increase in inequality in many countries including India and US PTI India Times February 4, 2014

Akhtar, 68, carries a stack of branches through Margalla Hills National Park in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 18.  Photo: Tim Craig/Washington Post

Energy shortages force Pakistanis to scavenge for wood, threatening tree canopy Tim Craig Washington Post February 1, 2014  See HN special report Environment and Hunger

Elderly men sit on benches at Tapgol Park in the Jongro-gu area of Seoul. South Korea has risen from the economic ashes, but its old are increasingly poor. Photo: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg

For South Korea's old, a return to poverty as Confucian filial piety weakens Chico Harlan Washington Post January 21, 2014

Yomara Velez, right, speaks to a group supporting domestic workers’ rights as they demonstrate across the street from the Indian Consulate General, Dec. 20, 2013, in New York. Photo:Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

Indian rights groups say Khobragade case shows callousness toward domestic workers Rama Lakshmi Washington Post January 12, 2014

Politicians, Muslim scholars join vaccination effort as violence hinders Pakistan polio drive Pamela Constable Washington Post January 11, 2014 Vaccine aide gunned down in Pakistan Salmon Masgood New York Times December 28, 2013 See more health and nutrition stories

Throughout Afghanistan, there is what doctors call acute severe malnutrition. Most of the cases are seen in children under the age of 5. Photo: Mujahid Safodien/IRIN  

Afghanistan's worsening, and baffling, hunger crisis Rod Nordland New York Times January 4, 2014. See an excellent short video on malnutrition in children.

A farmer worked her land in the shadows of a lead factory in Hengyang, Hunan province, where scholars say soil pollution is especially acute. Photo:Sim Chi Yin/New York Times  

Pollution rising, Chinese fear for soil and food Edward Wong New York Times January 1, 2013  See Hunger Notes special report Environment and hunger

 

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