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Tag: Food insecurity

UK: Food banks outnumber McDonald’s restaurants

24/03/202126/03/2021 - Leave a Comment

More people than ever in the United Kingdom are suffering from food poverty, with even working families turning to charities for help, aid agencies say. In a damning statistic issued …

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Nutri-Gardening Initiative Promises Better Nutrition for Tribal Women Farmers

18/02/202119/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

Khunta, one of the remote blocks of North Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, is yet to overcome malnutrition. For years, rain-fed agriculture and collection of forest produce constituted a major source of livelihood …

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The Future of Food

18/12/202002/10/2021 - 1 Comment

From the publisher: By the middle of this century, we will have nine billion mouths to feed and nobody who wants to be a farmer. Projections suggest we might not …

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A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women

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Fatima lay in bed at the internal medicine ward at the bustling Mirwais Hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar – a black scarf draped over her head and …

A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women Read More

Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs

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Up and down the length of Chile, people are turning to soup kitchens for their hunger needs as the coronavirus pandemic broadens inequality after lockdown measures shuttered the informal economy …

Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs Read More

Harnessing Food Waste to Empower Communities in Brazil

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Take a dozen banana peels, wash them gently with a brush under running water, then chop them into small pieces. Next, blend the peels with five spoons of cacao and …

Harnessing Food Waste to Empower Communities in Brazil Read More

How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home

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Lebanon is facing a major food crisis. Struck by an unprecedented economic meltdown, nationwide protests, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, more than 3.7 million people in the small Middle Eastern nation, which …

How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home Read More

In post-blast Lebanon, farmers struggle as food shortages feared

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Without money to plant, Lebanon’s farmers were already in deep trouble before last week’s explosion. Far from being the solution to the country’s food shortages, the agricultural sector that is …

In post-blast Lebanon, farmers struggle as food shortages feared Read More

This is how COVID-19 is affecting informal workers

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There are more than 2 billion people working informally, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). That’s around 62% of the global workforce. And they’re at the greatest risk from the …

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The ‘food prints’ of the world’s major economies illustrate our unsustainable food system

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Out of the 20 largest economies in the world, only two—India and Indonesia—have diets that stay within the planetary boundaries for climate, the limits for what the Earth can support. …

The ‘food prints’ of the world’s major economies illustrate our unsustainable food system Read More

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