Browsing issue: Food & health & development

See also: Sustainable development

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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger

In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land. The country already struggles with extreme poverty but now Niger is being hard hit by climate change.

Niger

Environment, Food & health & development, Water

Witnessed: 205 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: 282 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.

Afghanistan

Food & health & development, Humanitarian, Poverty

Witnessed: 223 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: 278 times

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Stand Up and Take Action: Millennium Development Goals

Join the biggest mobilisation worldwide to end poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals.

Stand Up and Take Action - October 17-19 2008

Global

Education, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 230 times

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Stand Up, Take Action:End Global Poverty and Unjust Debt (Pt 1)

Jubilee USA is an alliance of 80 religious denominations and faith communities, development agencies, and human rights groups working to create the political will for definitive debt cancellation and ...

Global

Environment, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 277 times

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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.

They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.

Afghanistan, Pakistan

Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 169 times

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A message from James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey describes his recent campaign against TB and drug resistant TB.

United States

Food & health & development, Health, HIV-AIDS

Witnessed: 403 times

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Philippines: Rural Medical Clinics Suffer

HELP is working with Ateneo de Zamboanga University on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines....

Philippines

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 286 times

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