Staff / TruthdigSep 14, 2010
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization has released a new report gauging global hunger in 2010, and the FAO surmised that worldwide undernourishment, although slightly improved from 2009, remains "unacceptably high." This raises the question: Is there ever an "acceptable" level? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 28, 2010
With malnutrition already well past dangerous levels, some 10 million Africans will face extreme hunger over the next few months as the threat of famine floats across West Africa amid a drought that killed off last year's crops and has left the region's agricultural economy in ruins. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigFeb 10, 2010
The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead and the approach of the rainy season, which will be followed by the hurricane season. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Amy Goodman / TruthdigNov 18, 2009
"Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry," says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 17, 2009
That recession is over statement looks more unfortunate every day. The Department of Agriculture disclosed Monday that a little more than 49 million Americans had trouble putting food on the table last year -- the highest percentage since the government began keeping track in 1995, up 13 million people from the previous year. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 3, 2009
About half of all American children will receive food stamps by the age of 20. Among black children, the figure is a stunning 90 percent. A new study drew those conclusions from data spanning 1968 to 1997. (Continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 15, 2009
Global hunger is a "world emergency" now, if it wasn't before, with the number of hungry people rising to a record 1 billion, according to the United Nations. Given this scary statistic, it's not looking good for a goal, set in 2000, to reduce the number of people going hungry worldwide by half by 2015. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 13, 2009
Global population is expected to hit 9.1 billion in the next 40 years, causing demand for food to double. The U.N. says we will need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 or risk starving hundreds of millions of people. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 29, 2009
Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, "these forgotten families who are doing everything they've been told they need to do to survive and they're still being pushed backward by economic forces that they really don't control". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 2, 2008
Zimbabwe's president plans to stop by Rome for a food summit sponsored by the United Nations, a fact that Australia's foreign minister finds "frankly obscene." He's not alone in his disdain for Robert Mugabe, who has transformed Zimbabwe from one of Africa's bread baskets into a place of chronic hunger. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 27, 2008
Semi-retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro thinks Barack Obama is "the most-advanced candidate in the presidential race," so he must have been disappointed to hear that Obama would continue an embargo against the island nation. That policy, Castro wrote in a column that appeared in state newspapers, is "a formula for hunger for [Cuba]." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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