Hunger and riches coexist in India
Region: IndiaA national daily presented the other day two contrasting pictures of India. On its front page were the findings of a research indicating the extent of hunger and malnourishment in the country and in one of the inside pages... more
Views: 1227World Food Prize Recognizes Leadership in Agriculture, but More Policy Support Is Needed to Feed the
Region: United StatesCrossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet Policymakers around the world need to step up their efforts to combat hunger, malnutrition, and poverty by providing gr... more
Views: 699Fishing for Sustainable Practices to Conserve Fisheries
Region: District of Columbia
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Global fish production has reached an all-time high, according to Nourishing the Planet’s latest research for the Worldwatch Institute&... more
Views: 1186Agriculture: The Unlikely Earth Day Hero
Region: United States
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. For over 40 years, Earth Day has served as a call to action, mobilizing individuals and organizations around the world to address these chall... more
Views: 1252Two Degrees Food Feeds a Hungry Child with Every Product Sold
Region: United StatesTwo Degrees Food™ officially launched today as the first one-for-one food company designed to fight childhood hunger with the debut of its all-natural Two Degrees nutrition bars. For every Two Degrees nutrition bar s... more
Views: 1198Halving Hunger Through “Business as Unusual”
Region: United StatesCross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet By Alex Tung This interview with Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a regula... more
Views: 1479What you can do for your country regarding sustainability at little or no cost to you
Region: United StatesSustainability and nutrition solve some of the AIDS/HIV problems locally and around the world. Here's how sustainability works. Farming can solve many problems related to AIDS/HIV. For one example, see the articl... more
Views: 2776World is in hunger
Region: ChinaA fact I see from a magazine is that people in Haiti have to eat soil just to make them feel full. Then I remember another fact also seen from a magazine which is about China. A Chinese pupil from a poor village was taken ... more
Views: 3052The small farmer is key to food security
Region: Bangladesh
That the prevailing food crisis has worsened the lives of the marginalised sections of the populace was never in doubt. The thirty interviews, one from each agro-ecological zone of the country, not only substantiates that ... more
Views: 1250Hunger killed rickshawpuller and his daughter
Region: IndiaBihar:The poverty of India revealed specially in Bihar when a rickshaw puller and his daughter died of hunger a week back. The incident happened at Dumaraon town of Buxar district, 17kms far from its district Headquater. ... more
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