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  • New book uses food to explore Mandela's life
  • After all, what he ate, where he ate it and those who prepared it serve as the basis for "Hunger for Freedom: The Story of Food in the Life of Nelson Mandela.
  • G-8 leaders face demands on climate, oil
  • ... pressing financial and environmental troubles at their annual summit Monday, confronted with demands they reinvigorate the stumbling world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks, and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.
  • Prayer network aims to save celebs
  • Hollywood insiders, however, say most stars probably don’t want any divine intervention — and they question the logic of praying for A-list celebrities when there are more pressing issues such as world hunger, poverty and war. “This kind of ...
  • Feds may sue over movie-marketing gimmick
  • The threat of prosecution was reported a day after Boston officials found 38 blinking electronic signs promoting the Cartoon Network TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" across the city. Authorities are investigating whether Cartoon Network parent Turner ...
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  • Among the items on the menu for world leaders who met in June in Rome to discuss the crisis in world hunger: pasta with a sauce of pumpkin and shrimp, veal rolls, pastry puffs with corn and mozzarella, cheese mousse, Parmesan risotto, ragout of veal ...

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    » Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development   - Presents a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger.
    » World Hunger Notes   - An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger Education Service

    » Action Against Hunger - USA - USA part of an international humanitarian network called Action Against Hunger.
    » Bread for the World - Bread for the World stands in a long biblical and prophetic tradition of those who speak out boldly in defense of people who are poor, hungry and consigned to the margins of society. People of faith and conscience have long engaged in the struggle for a more just world. They have fought for the abolition of slavery, for an end to nuclear proliferation and for the respect of human dignity and freedom.
    » Congressional Hunger Center - A non-profit anti-hunger leadership training and a bi-partisan organization, serves as a center where the anti-hunger community can discuss creative solutions to end domestic and international hunger, located in Washington, DC.
    » Environmental Literacy Council: Food and Hunger - Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants.
    » Fidel Castro Speech - The Cuban president presents appalling statistics on the hunger of children and other issues at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998.
    » Food Dumping (or Aid) Maintains Poverty - Looks at the effects of food aid to developing countries in non-emergency situations. Additional links, articles and research are provided, including links.
    » Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center and non-profit think tank focusing on issues of hunger, food, poverty, agriculture, trade, and rural development, guided by the principle that food is a fundamental human right.
    » FRAC - Consequences of Hunger - Short fact sheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality.
    » Hunger: Myths and Realities - Contains myths about world hunger and their respective truths.
    » The Hunger Site - Includes facts as well as a form for making donations.
    » HungerBanquet.org - Learn about hunger from the point of view of those who experience it every day. HungerBanquet.org is part of Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest campaign, which raises awareness and funds to fight poverty world hunger.
    » NomadNet - A collection of unorthodox views on aid and relief operations: Many articles suggest charities are partially to blame for hunger in Africa because they ignore evidence about hunger in order to fatten their coffers.
    » RESULTS - Nonprofit, grassroots citizen's lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power.
    » Still Hungry - Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry.
    » UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 1998 - Overviews the scale of malnutrition and causes, lists solutions, gives a scientific role, and provides statistical tables .
    » Vegfam - Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals.


 
    
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