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FAO says hunger is falling – just not quickly enough

Last week in Rome, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that there are almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in the world. Controversially though, the FAO also...

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Land grabbing our way to hunger

“We own the land and use it for different activities. At anytime the government can make the decision to transfer my land to another user”.This is a quote from a community in Kisarwe, Tanzania, which...

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Modern technology to support traditional ways of life

Around Rural Women’s Day and World Food Day communities in Kenya, Gambia and Nepal are sending in SMS messages on land issues that are affecting them, to help create a compelling case for action both...

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Cobwebbed - International Food Price Crisis and National Food Prices

Sophia Murphy Cobwebbed - International Food Price Crisis and National Food PricesSaturday, 13 October 2012–The paper provides an overview of what caused high and volatile prices in international food...

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Food prices – the hunger pains

Global food prices are on the rise again. Drought in the US and heat waves in Russia have put volatility in global food prices back in the spotlight.On the back of this, corn prices topped $7 a bushel,...

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Turning frustration into influence at the G20

Over the last week I've been blogging about civil society strategies on the G20 and some of the key issues that the G20 is taking up.In this post I try to draw some conclusions about the way the G20...

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ActionAid welcomes the Commission's food before fuel approach

Monday, September 17, 2012ActionAid welcomes confirmation from European Commissioners Hedegaard and Oettinger today of plans to limit the amount of food to fuel biofuels in the EU, calling on them to...

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Demystifying the Committee on Food Security

The food crises of 2007 and 2008 revealed a vacuum in global governance on food security, as a flurry of different actors scrambled to find ways to help countries respond. The G8 launched the Aquila...

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Adding Fuel to the Flame

ActionAid adding_fuel_to_the_flame_actionaid_2013_final.pdfWednesday, March 27, 2013Related contentFuel for thought: Addressing the social impacts of EU biofuels policies

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New partnership in the fight to end world hunger

In 2015 hunger is hitting the headlines once again: the UN recently warned that 13 million people were on the brink of famine in Yemen; 27 million people will rely on food hand outs by the end of the...

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