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Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
Apr 7, 2011 (The New York Times)
Deepening the Misery of Hungry People
Apr 1, 2011 (HUNGERFAST.org)
HAWG Blog
Mar 27, 2011
On Heels of Haitian Election Run-Off, Diverse Organizations Combine for “Haiti Advocacy Day”
Mar 25, 2011
The Global Agricultural and Food Security Program (GAFSP): An Innovative Fund to Fight Hunger
Mar 18, 2011 (Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network)
The Coming Global Food Fight
Mar 16, 2011 (YES!)
New York Times LTE
Feb 16, 2011 (New York Times)
ActionAid International USA awarded highest recognition from leading charity evaluator in America
Feb 8, 2011
Administration Preparing Plans for International Climate Aid
Jan 28, 2011 (E&E)
Charities Report Slow Progress in Haiti, Despite $1.4-Billion Raised in a Year
Jan 7, 2011 (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Pakistan floods: Forgotten... but not gone
Nov 1, 2010 (The Guardian)
When devastating floods hit Pakistan, the world rushed to help. But while the horror has slipped from our TV screens, millions remain stranded
US energy policy is undermining efforts to end hunger, ActionAid says ahead of World Food Day
Oct 14, 2010
As corn prices surge on the Chicago stock exchange, ActionAid is calling on the US government to rationalise its energy policies to avoid undermining its own crusade to end hunger.
Fund Donors Want Bigger Effort to Boost Farming in Poor Areas
Oct 12, 2010 (America.gov)
The United States and other donors to a new international agriculture-development fund will use World Bank/IMF meetings of finance ministers October 9–10 in Washington and a meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) heads of state in November in Seoul to ask other countries to contribute to the fund, which is being used to improve farming practices in low-income countries.
International Monetary Fund Debates Internal Reforms, Global Economic Growth
Oct 8, 2010 (Voice of America)
The 24-member board of the IMF approves billions of dollars in loans for countries hit by the global financial crisis.
Hunger Costs Poor Countries $450 Billion A Year Says ActionAid
Sep 14, 2010
A new report by ActionAid reveals that hunger could be costing poor nations $450 billion a year – more than ten times the amount of aid needed to halve hunger by 2015 in order to meet Millennium Development Goal One (MDG 1).
Global Lessons from the Pakistan Flood Catastrophe
Aug 24, 2010 (The Huffington Post)
There are three vital global lessons to learn from the ongoing flood catastrophe in Pakistan. First, the rise in the planetary temperature has reached a tipping point. We are now in a scary new era of extreme weather. Extremes are the new normal.
Western Donations Lag for Pakistan Flood Victims
Aug 19, 2010 (The New York Time)
Public and private funding for the international response to Pakistan flooding has been trickling in, compared to the rush of support for Haiti following its January earthquake.
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