World Hunger

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ROME (AFP) - The international goal of cutting Hunger by half by 2015 appears "even more remote" after 75 million new people joined the ranks of the famished last year, a United Nations agency said Thursday. ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 32 days ago
Norman Borlaug, 94, is Making a Difference by inspiring young agricultural researchers to carry on his legacy ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
-- Solving World Hunger has been at the top of the humanitarian agenda for decades -- even centuries, but now there are solutions evolving that could take center stage during the World Critical Resources Summit, January 5, 2009 at the Times Center in ...

Source: www.cbc.ca --- 24 days ago
Soaring food prices have added at least 75 million people to the World's Hunger rolls, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization says. ...

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Southern Baptist churches across the nation are raising awareness and mobilizing believers to help hungry people on World Hunger Sunday. ...

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Source: www.marketwire.com --- 39 days ago
WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Solving World Hunger has been at the top of the humanitarian agenda for decades -- even centuries, but now there are solutions evolving that could take center stage during the World Critical Resources Summit, January 5, 2009 at the Times Center in New York City (www.criticalresources.org). Watch it now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0v1S8sA4. ...

Source: deadspin.com --- 20 days ago
Drought, famine, and crippling poverty better stay on the bench for this fight because Kermit Washington is coming out swinging. The former NBA baller and American University alum has his own... ...

Source: www.commondreams.org --- 23 days ago
WASHINGTON - Nations worldwide are falling short of the Hunger and poverty targets adopted at the start of the millennium, and as a result millions are suffering needlessly, warns a report released ahead of next week's UN summit to measure progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. read more ...

Source: www.rte.ie --- 19 days ago
Taoiseach Brian Cowen is in New York to attend a number of events at the UN aimed at highlighting World Hunger. ...

Source: www.ireland.com --- 17 days ago
AT THE United Nations General Assembly this week international financial turbulence was sharply counter-posed to World Hunger. Speech after speech from political leaders referred to the impact of the credit crunch on national economies and the need for co-ordinated action to tackle global regulation ...

Source: www.france24.com --- 25 days ago
The international goal of cutting Hunger by half by 2015 appears "even more remote" after 75 million new people joined the ranks of the famished last year, a United Nations agency said. ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 38 days ago
If his daughter hadn’t cared about issues like sustainable agriculture and Hunger in developing countries, Jim Zingarelli’s artwork might look very different. But her volunteer efforts as a college student prompted the Gordon College art professor to respond to the same concerns in the language he knows best: sculpting. The result is Zingarelli’s newest solo exhibit, “Host & Hunger,” running through Oct. 11 in Gordon College’s Barrington Center for the Arts in Wenham. The collection includes 20 carved heads — each with open mouths — in marble, ebony, granite, limestone and serpentine, most of which were originally discarded or mis-cut stone and came from countries throughout Africa, Greece, North America and Italy. The carvings incorporate influences as diverse as pop art and ancient African sculpture, the smallest being only three inches and the largest 31 inches and weighing 250 pounds. But for Zingarelli each represents a much bigger issue he’s become passionate about changing—World Hunger. “When my oldest daughter Gina (now a Gordon sophomore) decided to travel and learn about agricultural work in developing countries, I began to realize how unfamiliar I was with the same faces and issues she was seeing,” Zingarelli said. “It began to raise a question for me: ‘How do I make art out of a social conscience without it becoming propaganda or overly sentimental?’” So he followed in his daughter’s footsteps and three years ago began ...

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Source: www.globalenvision.org --- 11 days ago
The worldwide Hunger epidemic is real. Rising costs of fuel and food, persistent conflicts, disease and global warming mean that the crisis will get worse before it gets better. That's why Mercy Corps is opening a new Action Center to End World Hunger — to get ordinary U.S. citizens like you motivated, equipped and mobilized to end Hunger. The new Center opens October 16 in New York City. All of us, working together, can end the World Hunger epidemic. How? Become a Hunger activist. Get your children, neighbors, family and friends to become Hunger activists. Visit the ActionCenter.org website, and if you're in New York, stop by the Center and get in the action, right now. Your Action Center visit puts you up close and personal with our field work around the World — in a fascinating, dynamic setting abuzz with smart conversations, high-tech media and hundreds of ways to get involved right now. For starters, watch this Tina Fey video about the Hunger epidemic and how you can take action with Mercy Corps' to end Hunger worldwide. Then visit Mercy Corps' ActionCenter.org website to learn more. ...

Source: www.gazetteseries.co.uk --- 18 days ago
THORNBURY Castle is joining the campaign to help fight World Hunger and is encouraging its customers to play their part. ...