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A Willy Wonka who wants to feed the world

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King Corn: you are what you eat

Behind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that... more

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World hunger now close to 1 billion people

The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in... more

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Hungry in Zimbabwe: If you rest, you starve

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Could 4% of bailout end world hunger?

World hunger seems like one of those grand unsolvable problems – the perennial favorite wish of beauty pageant queens. The truth is, it's not unsolvable at all.

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that it would only take $30 billion a year to launch the necessary agricultural programs to completely solve global food insecurity. (Severe hunger afflicts 862 million people annually.)

$30 billion sounds like a lot of money, but considering we've just bailed out Wall Street to the tune of nearly a trillion, it's trifling. After I did a little digging, all I could think was...really? $30 billion is all we need to end world hunger? That's it? I thought such a major goal would require some unreachable, vast sum. Here are six things I learned we're doing with that money instead.

Global military and arms trade expenditures hit high at about $1 trillion annually. Approximately $540 billion is spent by the United States alone. (I don't mean to single out defense here, but...wow!)

The United States Department of Energy spends $23.4 billion yearly just to develop and maintain nuclear warheads.

How could we forget the recent $700 (and growing) billion housing bailout bill? In other words, 4% of the Wall Street bailout would end world hunger.

The U.S. Congress has approved $44 billion of U.S. funds for Iraqi construction projects (meanwhile, 39% of bridges in the United States have been deemed structurally deficient – but that’s another story. Am I being partisan?)

$30 billion was spent on Homeland Security in 2008, and they’re requesting $35 billion for 2009.

Lest we pick on ourselves only, residents of the United Kingdom waste about âÂ¤20 billion worth of food every year. That translates to about $31.7 billion U.S. dollars.

You’ll notice that the big spenders are on corporations, defense and military organizations, but in my research I didn't intend to focus on this. It's just what we spend on! I can't help but think that if we could channel even a few of those war dollars into peace spending (like helping alleviate world hunger), there might not be much left to fight about in the future. This idealist believes it’s worth a try. What do you think?World hunger seems like one of those grand unsolvable problems – the perennial... more

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Stop World Hunger

A PSA about world hunger i made.

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Scarcity Hits Hardest On The Women of Africa

"A man can never sit at home. They are always out somewhere," Lingani said. "They don't do anything. They don't help." (from article)

With very little work and very little pay, the women in Africa are left to feed their families. Meanwhile, they barely have any food left to feed themselves. The men believe that it is a woman's role to feed the family while the men got out to work. This is very common in the African culture.

'Zorome, Lingani's husband, said that men don't help with shopping and cooking because "that is the job of women." Like many men interviewed here, he said African culture clearly defines roles for men, who work outside the house, and women, who manage children and meals.' (from article)

Msnbc.com/Washington Post's 3 page article tells the story of a woman named Fanta Lingani and her struggle to take care of her family.

Here's an excerpt-
"Mealtime conspires against women-
In poor West African nations such as Burkina Faso, mealtime conspires against women. They grow the food, fetch the water, shop at the market and cook the meals. But when it comes time to eat, men and children eat first, and women eat last and least.

Soaring prices for food and fuel have pushed more than 130 million poor people across vast swaths of Africa, Asia and Latin America deeper into poverty in the past year, according to the U.N. World Food Program. But while millions of men and children are also hungrier, women are the hungriest and skinniest. Aid workers call malnutrition among women one of the most notable hidden consequences of the food crisis.

"It's a cultural thing," said Hervé Kone, director of a group that promotes development, social justice and human rights in Burkina Faso. "When the kids are hungry, they go to their mother, not their father. And when there is less food, women are the first to eat less."

A recent study by the aid group Catholic Relief Services found that many people in Burkina Faso are now spending 75 percent or more of their income on food, leaving little for other basic needs.

Pregnant women and young mothers are forgoing medical care. More women are turning to prostitution to pay for food. And more families are pulling children -- especially girls -- out of school, unable to afford fees and clothes.

But perhaps the most pervasive effect of the growing global crisis is the ache in the stomachs of millions of poor women such as Fanta Lingani. "

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Top African Policymakers Address Agricultural Policies Needed to End Hunger, Achieve Food Security

Meeting Convened by AGRA Focuses on Policies for an African Green Revolution. As... more

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Food crisis could destroy progress in Africa

LONDON, England (AP) -- Rising global food prices threaten to destroy years of... more

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Feeding the world

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One Earth Blog by TouchArt

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Food price rises threaten global security - UN

Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the... more

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Make your voice be heard!

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Every Word = 20 grains of rice donated

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com. FreeRice has two... more

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How Many Words Do You Know For Rice?

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Autumn Rain Down 90 Percent in China Rice Belt

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