Browsing issue: Food & health & development

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UNICEF: The tragedy of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak

HARARE, Zimbabwe, 19 December 2008 Deep grief is evident in Nigel Chigudu's eyes....

Zimbabwe

Food & health & development, Health, Humanitarian

Witnessed: 55 times

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Jen Chapin on World Hunger Year

Brooklyn singer Jen Chapin discusses the mission of World Hunger Year (WHY), an organization founded by her father Harry Chapin in 1975 to explore solutions for poverty and hunger on a local, grassroo...

Global, United States

Food & health & development, Poverty, Sustainable development

Witnessed: 195 times

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Nellie McKay Urges Eaters to Look Beyond the Mirror

New York singer-songwriter Nellie McKay makes a compelling case for a vegetarian lifestyle, citing both global warming and the treatment of workers at factory farms as reasons to make the switch.

Global, United States

Corporations and human rights, Environment, Food & health & development

Witnessed: 178 times

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The Kin discuss Charitywater.org

Australian rockers The Kin discuss their work with a program called "Thirst Things First" run by Charitywater.org, a group dedicated to bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in need....

Global

Food & health & development, Sanitation, Water

Witnessed: 92 times

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The Greed of Feed

Fishy Business: uncovering the truth behind your cheap Christmas salmon...In its latest film the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) travels to Peru to investigate a host of unreported environmental and social ...

Global, Great Britain, Peru

Corporations and human rights, Food & health & development, Sustainable development

Witnessed: 121 times

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Witnessed: 325 times

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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger

In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land....

Niger

Environment, Food & health & development, Water

Witnessed: 354 times

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Price of Rice

The price of rice has doubled in the past year in Asia giving rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." A grassroots NGO in Vietnam is responding, by propagating sustainable agricultural ...

Vietnam

Environment, Food & health & development, Sustainable development

Witnessed: 417 times

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Cholera plagues Afghanistan

As if living in a country at war was not bad enough, the people of Afghanistan are battling a new outbreak of cholera. At least 20 people have been killed so far - most of them women and children....

Afghanistan

Food & health & development, Humanitarian, Poverty

Witnessed: 348 times

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Food prices still relevant on World Food Day

Developing countries are still hit hard by food costs. As World Food Day is marked, human rights groups claim the current agricultural system needs to be reconsidered if the hungry are to be fed. ...

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 410 times

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