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Donors failing starving Yemenis: U.N. survey
Hugh Macleod
Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total absence of funding.
- Date:
- 12/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Hunger takes its toll on Orissa family
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Jhintu Bariha and his family members were victims of chronic hunger. A migrant labourer, illiterate Jhintu never availed of the social security measures -- either job at the door step or government supplied food -- until he lost two of his three children.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Keep biodiversity or face hunger
CHENNAI: Top scientists and policymakers from leading national and international institutes on Wednesday issued a declaration calling on all nations to prioritise conservation of the earth’s multitude of plant, agricultural, forest and marine species or risk widespread hunger and accelerating climate change.
- Date:
- 18/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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African Green Revolution needn’t be a mirage
Africa missed out on the scientific breakthroughs that revolutionized agriculture in Asia. However, with locally developed and locally relevant technologies, a built-up human and institutional capacity, and supportive national policy and leadership, an African Green Revolution can be a reality.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Science Vol: 327 Issue: 5967 pp: 831-832
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Take micro-level steps to prevent farmers’ suicides
J. Venkatesan
NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the increasing incidents of suicide by farmers due to starvation, poverty and other reasons, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to come out with mirco-level steps to prevent such suicides across the country, particularly in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
- Date:
- 19/01/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Haiti quake may be 2nd worst in history
Aid Pours In As Up To 500,000 Feared Dead
Washington/Port-au-Prince: Rescue teams, doctors and soldiers from around the world raced against the clock to reach Haiti with food, water and medicines, as it became increasingly clear that the magnitude 7 earthquake which reduced the Caribbean country to rubble on Tuesday could be one of the worst disasters ever.
- Date:
- 15/01/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Starvation and suicide
P.C. Alexander
- Date:
- 13/01/2010
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Only science can fight hunger
THE 97TH Indian Science Congress is in session at Thiruvananthapuram (January 3 to 7, 2010), the capital of the state of Kerala.
- Date:
- 06/01/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Price rise must not cause starvation
PAWAN BALI
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Monday that there is need to see that the high food prices doesn't lead to starvation of relatively poor people.
He said that the general priority should be not only to look at the overall performance of the economy but also to pay attention to the underdogs in the society.
- Date:
- 05/01/2010
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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My biggest dream is no child goes hungry
The World Food Programme chief has lamented the severity of world hunger and said her biggest dream is to see no child goes hungry. Worldwide, 1.02 billion people or one in six of the world’s total population are suffering from hunger and a child dies of hunger in every six seconds.
- Date:
- 19/12/2009
- Source:
- Hindu (New Delhi)
