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Is the “Optimization” of Food Aid Ethical?
A friend of mine sent me a link to this paper titled “Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries” – originally more as a “look at what...
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Shift in U.S. Food Aid Policy At The Horizon?!
If you were asked to design an efficient, responsive, economical system to deliver food aid to poor people in a hunger crisis due to food price spikes, how would you do it? a) Buy grain from your...
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IF … Policymakers Would Listen to Civil Society?
This weekend, David Cameron hosted the G8 “Hunger Summit” in Northern Ireland, resulting in promises, pledges, praise – and a lot of backlash from African civil society, who this summit was supposed to...
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How Much Do You Really Know About Hunger? (+ Help The WFP Provide Relief in...
A lot? A little? Nothing at all? The World Food Programme (WFP) challenges you to test your hunger IQ and help feed a child in the process! For every submitted quiz, a child will receive a warm meal...
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The USA Have A Farm Bill! Halle … Well … Yeah.
The USDA will begin to implement the Bill soon, provided it passes the Senate floor. On Wednesday, as anticipated, the House of Representatives passed the Farm Bill after a 2 year impasse with 251 to...
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Farming in Gaza – a Series of Challenges
I was looking through the photojournalist site VII (a great time suck if you ever feel like being unproductive in the most enjoyable of ways; and a superb array of photos of course) and stumbled upon...
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10 Facts About Food (Shortages) in North Korea
Think of “food” and “North Korea” and chances are you will be reminded of the near-yearly news items speaking of hunger, starvation, and malnutrition in the country. However, times might be changing,...
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Drought in Central America – Sequía en Centroamérica
Español Sometimes, it´s easy to get caught up in the news of the day – Ukraine, Gaza, ISIS – that other news items go unnoticed. So, for example, that Central American agricultural producers are being...
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What Money Can Buy…
First of all, ugh, I wasn’t planning to disappear for so long! The longer I am working, the more appreciation I have for the more professional bloggers that do it next to their day job – what a tough...
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The Forgotten War Crime: Starvation in Syria
“Let me be clear: The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. All sides — including the Syrian government, which has the primary responsibility to protect Syrians — are committing this...
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Learning from Coca-Cola: Last-Mile Humanitarian Supply Chain Innovations
It stands to argue that Coca-Cola is one of the multinationals that elicits the strongest love-hate feelings by the public. It is vilified for its influence on global obesity rates and its undue...
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Is the “Optimization” of Food Aid Ethical?
A friend of mine sent me a link to this paper titled “Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries” – originally more as a “look at what...
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