| Q+A: Why is the number of hungry people rising? |
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ROME (Reuters) - The number of hungry people in the world has topped one billion this year for the first time since records started in 1970, according to the U.N. Food and... More »
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Reuters - Nov. 12, 2009
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| Food Summit Dilutes Aid Targets, France Wants More |
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ROME (Reuters) - A U.N. world food summit next week is likely to make little headway in the fight against hunger, with leaders simply pledging to boost agricultural aid to... More »
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ABC News - Nov. 12, 2009
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| UN food summit 'fails before it begins' |
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A UN food summit aimed at helping the one billion people worldwide suffering from hunger has been declared a failure a week before it has even begun. The leaked World Food... More »
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Telegraph - Nov. 12, 2009
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| UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children |
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ROME - Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a... More »
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Minneapolis Star Tribune - Nov. 11, 2009
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| Food summit dilutes aid targets, France wants more |
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ROME (Reuters) A draft declaration to be made at next week's world food summit ducks new targets on agricultural aid and the fight against hunger, but France said on Thursday... More »
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Reuters via Yahoo! - Nov. 12, 2009
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| ICE Futures Canada Thursday: Canola, barley futures prices... |
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... prices, drought and war blamed for recent increases, the Food and Agriculture Organization says. The draft document, negotiated by delegates from the organization's 192... More »
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Lethbridge Herald - Nov. 12, 2009
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| Draft declaration for UN food summit calls on world to back... |
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ROME - A draft declaration for next week's U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid... More »
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Amherst Daily News - Nov. 12, 2009
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| U.N. says hunger stunts growth of some 200 million children |
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Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a... More »
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Japan Today - Nov. 11, 2009
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| Leaders urged to salvage UN World Food Summit as hopes for... |
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Leaders urged to salvage UN as hopes for action on hunger fade 12 November 2009 More than one billion people are going hungry Smallholder farmers, mostly women, are on the... More »
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Oxfam International - Nov. 12, 2009
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| Draft declaration for UN food summit calls on world to back... |
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ROME - A draft declaration for next week's U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid... More »
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Macleans Online - Nov. 12, 2009
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