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Health, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 17th, 2010,
India: a country of nearly 1.2 billion people with over 28% living under the official poverty line, as defined by Indian government in 2004-2005. Some 400 million of these poor depend on government food handouts, which fall short of meeting demands. Yet experts say that there are over a billion tons of grain rotting away in government warehouses, an amount that could feed over 600,000 people for 10 years. And though feeding the poor can be seen as an expense, the consequences of not feeding them are much greater – economically as well as morally. The antipoverty group ActionAid calculates…
Tags: government, grain, hunger, India, Indian, poor, starve
Climate Change, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 26th, 2010,
Several West African nations are at ‘crisis point’ due to a severe drought in the region. Harvests in Niger and Chad have fallen by a third, while food prices have increased by the same proportion. Both countries have declared a state of emergency. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) some 10 million people are at risk of hunger in the West African part of the Sahel, an ecological and geographical zone that stretches across the African continent. 13.4 million face hunger in Niger and two million in Chad. Mauritania and Mali are also at risk. So far government…
Tags: Africa, African, Chad, drought, hunger, Niger, Sahel, starvation, West
Green living, Politics, Jan 27th, 2010,
Biofuels are viewed as an environmental savior by some. They’re easy to make, come from renewable sources, and don’t cause nearly the amount of pollution as regular crude oil does. However, there is one glaring issue that has yet to be dealt with: hunger. Last year 107 million tons of grains were used to produce ethanol in the US—that’s enough to feed 330 million people for one year, on an average world consumption level. Since the ethanol industry has been on the rise, the number of US distilleries has swelled to over 200 thus far and processed amounts of grain…
Tags: biofuel, cars vs hunger, Earth Policy Institute, ethanol, grains, hunger, starvation
Politics, Oct 15th, 2009,
Hunger has become more prevalent as more and more people get to have been laid off after the economy took a nosedive. More than 35 million people in America now receive food stamps while many others are making slightly higher salaries than the figure that would qualify them for food stamps. It is ironic how so many people could go hungry while every day edible food is wasted and thrown away in schools, restaurants, hospitals, cafeterias, sports stadium and supermarkets. There are several programs all over the country such as the Food Runners, Urban Gleaners, Rock and Wrap it up!…
Tags: food stamps, hunger, surplus food, US
