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Tag: Food insecurity

Poor diet

21/06/202407/11/2024 - Leave a Comment

Megan Blake explains how rich countries can have hungry households and introduces a means to climb out of food insecurity Eradicating hunger is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development …

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Cocoa price surge in global market lures Colombian farmers away from coca cultivation

05/04/2024 - Leave a Comment

“Coca leaf prices are down and cocoa prices are up.” It’s as simple as that, says cocoa farmer Óscar Gómez, who close to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated …

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Extreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?

29/03/2024 - Leave a Comment

Sometimes climate change appears where you least expect it — like the grocery store. Food prices have climbed 25 percent over the past four years, and Americans have been shocked by the …

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Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine

14/07/2023 - Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI (AP) — Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world …

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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

16/12/202018/12/2020 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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

24/11/202027/11/2020 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Harnessing Food Waste to Empower Communities in Brazil

09/10/202016/10/2020 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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