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Table Scraps in one Country are Another Country’s Meal

May 18, 2008 – 10:31 pm

From IHT by Andrew Martin.
Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and [...]

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Word Game to Help End World Hunger

November 16, 2007 – 12:19 am

FreeRice is a word game that tests your vocabulary, and for each word you get right, they will donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
Related: The Globalization of Hunger.

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The Globalization of Hunger

October 24, 2007 – 2:05 pm

From The Seoul Times by Yifat Susskind.
.. Another paradox: the majority of the world’s hungry people live in rural areas, where nearly all food is grown.
World Food Day on October 16 is a good time to try and understand the conundrum of world hunger. The root of the problem is the inequitable distribution of [...]

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