tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31485563571123351532008-07-22T18:24:28.968+01:00end child hungernoreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-75749272525661729302008-06-04T01:26:00.003+01:002008-06-04T02:19:19.903+01:00

At the Rome summit on the global food crisis: Time for talk over - Action needed 3 June 2008, Rome - Noting that the time for talk was over and that action was urgently needed, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today appealed to world leaders for US$30 billion a year to re-launch agriculture and avert future threats of conflicts over food. In an impassioned speech at the opening of the Rome

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HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY: THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIOENERGY. ADDRESS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- Your Excellency President Giorgio Napolitano, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Honourable Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-73613941898662766112008-05-30T04:37:00.004+01:002008-05-30T04:50:20.017+01:00

AFP reports — A severe drought in Ethiopia threatens up to six million children, UNICEF warned on Tuesday. "Up to six million children under five years of age are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and require continuation of urgent preventive health and nutrition interventions," UNICEF said in a statement. The agency added that 126,000 children were already suffering from severe

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-51395934361721688782008-05-30T04:21:00.004+01:002008-05-30T04:37:49.206+01:00

IRIN News reports on the worsening situation in Ethiopia, which, say aid workers... "...has been hit by drought and rising prices that have once again caused massive food shortages. For example, the costs of some cereals have increased between 50-90 percent since September, stretching the ability of some households to meet their food needs. "The combined effects of drought, food price hikes, and

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-36637677532960529772008-05-28T13:12:00.002+01:002008-05-28T13:40:09.215+01:00

REACH is a network of government-led, solution-focused, country-level partnerships among the UN, NGO, civil society and private sectors, which aims to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 1, specifically the target on child hunger: halve the number of underweight children under five by 2015. A key REACH objective is to improve tools and strengthen knowledge about how to

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-19109288410300273812008-05-06T17:24:00.002+01:002008-05-07T03:59:41.195+01:00

NEW YORK, USA, 5 May 2008 -- UNICEF has sent five missions to assess the immediate needs of children and families in Myanmar in the wake of the devastating cyclone that struck the country on Saturday. With estimates of the death toll rapidly rising, UNICEF will lead the relief effort in providing basic needs, including water and sanitation, as well as ensuring that children are protected and

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-14653581134569242412008-04-30T19:38:00.005+01:002008-04-30T20:03:16.475+01:00

The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University has published its brief on rising global food prices, prepared for presentation to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Strategy Unit. Summary of key themes are: Food prices are going up. Average food prices went up by 3% in G7 economies between July 2006 and July 2007, and by 10.5% in developing countries; over the same period,

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-75441321217357181042008-04-17T15:15:00.008+01:002008-04-17T15:40:30.112+01:00

The New York Times' covers the political and policy rethink on biofuels following recent high-level calls to act on rising global food prices: The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries. That strategy seemed to reach a high point last year when Congress mandated a fivefold increase in the use of biofuels.

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-91767631235355906862008-04-15T04:02:00.008+01:002008-04-17T13:58:40.513+01:00

Recent days have seen food riots and a string of announcements by major agencies in an effort to awaken the global community to the crisis in food prices and supplies. Thirty-three countries are reporting riots due to the heavy increases in food prices: CNN reports on a "Food Crisis Spawns Deadly Riots". Global food inflation is reaching emergency proportions and could wipe out seven years of

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-57156690332916211392008-02-12T06:45:00.004Z2008-03-15T14:53:01.661Z

"Children everywhere in the world have the same growth potential in the first five years of life. There is no reason why children in Peru need to be the exception!"The story of two very similar communities in Perú (Aprimac region), both living from local harvest and sharing a long history of poverty. The video focuses on how malnourishment from the very early years can seriously affect their

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-31105949076698915762008-02-08T01:51:00.000Z2008-02-08T02:34:18.175Z

Reuters reports on the progress of the US Congress Farm Bill, the US$286 billion package that will set farm subsidies, food stamps, and food-aid policy for the next five years: ... Aid workers likewise expect Congress to defy administration advice and carve out around $450 million a year from the main food aid budget for longer-term, nonemergency projects. That set-aside for nonemergency aid

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-57357843229754088442008-02-05T11:25:00.000Z2008-02-05T11:28:02.611Z

"The cause of many of our diseases is the condition of our lavatories and our bad habit of disposing of excreta anywhere and everywhere". Mahatma Gandhi, 1925 Ghandi had no hesitation saying that in his view sanitation was more important than independence. In this, the International Year of Sanitation, it is alarming to note that some 1.5 million children die every year due to inadequate water,

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-84094526187080602942008-02-05T10:40:00.000Z2008-02-05T14:41:49.208Z

The Inter Press news agency reports: "Biofuels have quickly turned from environmental saviour to just another mega-scale get-rich quick scheme. Countries and regions without their own oil reserves to tap now see their farms, peatlands and forests as potential "oil fields" -- shallow but renewable lakes of green oil. "However, renewable does not mean sustainable, and in most cases the only green

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-73782059069494260682008-01-28T10:18:00.000Z2008-01-28T10:38:03.575Z

Following up on the findings of the recent Lancet series maternal and child malnutrition, The Economist reports "hunger has an even bigger impact on children's health than was thought", and:...if the research is right, money for improving nutrition would be the most effective sort of aid around. At the moment, roughly $300m of aid goes to basic nutrition each year, less than $2 for each child

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-48609706802016118672008-01-26T11:53:00.000Z2008-01-28T12:11:51.959Z

Covering the Davos session calling for urgent action on the Millennium Development Goals, the Associated Press reports: Nearly 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day, half of the developing world lacks basic sanitation, 1 million people die of malaria each year, AIDS still wreaks havoc on poor nations and 72 million children are not in school, according to a panel that included Gates, U2

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-39195477970981540252008-01-25T12:26:00.000Z2008-01-28T13:09:09.553Z

Leaders including World Bank Group president Robert B. Zoellick, UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman convened in Davos to announce an expanded 36-month effort to achieve scale-up of malaria control across sub-Saharan Africa. Timed with the release of new report at the World Economic Forum claiming 3.5 million lives could be saved over the next five years if malaria prevention and treatment

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-54720724177398994102008-01-25T11:26:00.000Z2008-01-28T11:48:06.779Z

At Davos to announce USD300 million in grants to develop farming in the least developed countries, Bill Gates addressed the World Economic Forum to call on the world's business elite to usher in a new form of "creative capitalism" to meet the challenges facing humanity: "If we are serious about ending extreme hunger and poverty around the world, we must be serious about transforming agriculture

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-66539498876500648602008-01-24T12:53:00.000Z2008-01-28T13:08:36.522Z

On the eve of Davos '08, World Bank President, Robert Zoellick has used an interview with the Financial Times to call for more action on fighting hunger and malnutrition: The Bank president said he would try to use the Davos gathering to "draw attention to hunger and malnutrition, the forgotten Millennium Development Goals". Fighting malnutrition was essential to success on other development

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-532286575383872212008-01-22T13:14:00.000Z2008-01-28T13:30:31.197Z

Strategies to help reduce the number of deaths of under-fives feature in the latest stanza of UNICEF’s annual flagship report - The State of the World’s Children 2008: Child Survival. “Community-level integration of essential services for mothers, newborns and young children, and sustainable improvements in national health systems can save the lives of many of the more than 26,000 children

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-36505504843193773042008-01-16T02:28:00.000Z2008-01-28T10:39:41.311Z

Undernutrition is the largely preventable cause of over a third - 3.5 million - of all child deaths and 11% of the total disease burden worldwide are due to maternal and child undernutrition. There is a golden interval for intervention: from pregnancy to 2 years of age. After age 2 years, undernutrition will have caused irreversible damage for future development towards adulthood. Yet the

end child hungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-9048546016461948742007-12-30T02:00:00.000Z2008-01-18T02:25:12.401Z

World Vision Australia is helping 20 million people to break the cycle of poverty. Still the fact is every three seconds one child dies from preventable causes. One child every three seconds...what are you doing right now?

end child hungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-57173396773909837292007-12-17T02:10:00.000Z2008-02-08T02:29:10.043Z

Reuters reports on a new US Senate plan that would steer more US food aid funds to development projects that "attack the root causes of hunger": "In one key change, the plan would set aside $600 million a year, about half the amount appropriated in recent budgets for emergency food aid, to provide a third more support for programs to improve farming techniques in poor countries or teach mothers

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-83068310116499477762007-12-04T01:23:00.000Z2007-12-04T01:34:36.539Z

The International Herald Tribune reports on the extraordinary turnaround in Malawi from the brink of famine to exporter of food to its struggling neighbours:'In Malawi itself, the prevalence of acute child hunger has fallen sharply. In October, the United Nations Children's Fund sent three tons of powdered milk, stockpiled here to treat severely malnourished children, to Uganda instead. "We will

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-85400847160730992812007-11-29T14:57:00.000Z2007-12-04T01:20:40.776Z

A recent study to be published in the December 2007 edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes sought to examine whether maternal HIV disease stage during pregnancy and child malnutrition are associated with child mortality. Low maternal hemoglobin concentration and child undernutrition were found to be related to an increased risk of mortality in this cohort of children. The

Michael Hutaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3148556357112335153.post-76422219231810577312007-11-06T13:57:00.000Z2007-11-07T15:27:41.184Z

"KOLARAS, India, 30 Oct 2007 -- When nine-month-old twins Devki and Rahul were brought by their mother to the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre in Kolaras -- located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh -- Rahul was a normal weight and size for his age, yet his sister Devki weighed just over half of what she should have. Devki's condition was the result of severe malnutrition. Both babies showed

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