World 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: 699246 children in Peru die of freezing temperatures
Region: Peru
Lima-based BBC correspondent Dan Collyns reports that 246 children have died from pneumonia and other respiratory infections so far this year in Peru's southern Andes. According to reports, this year freezing temperatures... more
Views: 2291The 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: 1250Juba: Malnutrition raise mortality rate
Region: SudanJUBA-Juba is witnessing Child mortality increases over the last two years, medical officers in Alsabah Children Hospital pushed blames to parent for poor feeding to the children. The officer in charge of the nutrition unit... more
Views: 1013Football weekend against hunger to be held in Europe
Region: Belgium
Over 200 professional football clubs, 100 stadiums and millions of football fans will be involved in the first-ever Europe-wide football weekend against hunger to be held from 20 to 22 March, FAO sources say. Accord... more
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