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FOOD SECURITY
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- Number of people who go to bed hungry: more than 800 million
- Number of people who die every day from hunger and related causes: 24,000
- Number of people who ate WFP food in 2001: 77 million
- Percentage of those people who were women and children: 78 percent
Source: World Food Programme 2002
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General Information |
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 Food Security analysis:
Understanding vulnerability
Food security Audio clips, documents and press releases
Council of the European Union: Policy archive on food security
Global food security crisis (UN): "We do not see many references these days to the food crisis in the news. It has
been eclipsed by economic fears. But we are still not out of the woods. I call it our forgotten crisis - because it has not gone away." Secretary general Ban ki-Moon
Declaration of the World summit on food security:
Food and agriculture organisation of the United Nations
UN World Food Programme: the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
UN Food and Agricultural Organisation: leading international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and
developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy.
Congressional Hunger Center (US): a nonprofit anti-hunger training organization founded by former Rep. Tony Hall.
Feinstein International Famine Center (Tufts University) develops and promotes operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of people living in crisis-affected and marginalized communities.
Food First: shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
ONE WORLD:
Food Security guide conceived by Peter Armstrong and Anuradha Vittachi in 1994. The portal was launched in London on 24 January 1995 - innovating the world's first portal on the internet on global justice.
OneWorld's
explosive growth around the world meant that its founders decentralized the organisation into a global participatory media network, the OneWorld Network.
Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS- FAO) keeps the world food supply/demand situation under continuous review, issues reports on the world food situation and provides early warnings of impending
food crises in individual countries.
International Food Policy Research Institute: sustainable solutions for ending poverty and hunger.
Oxfam America: working
together to end poverty and injustice.
Oxfam United Kingdom: Oxfam is a global movement of people working with others to overcome poverty and
suffering.
P.A.N.D.A a Project to Assess Nonviolent Direct Action, Information On Armed Conflict And Food Security
The Hunger Site: founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need; the
eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry and food insecure.
World Hunger Notes: Online publication of the Worlds hunger education service.
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Reports, Articles and Analysis |
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UNICEF: reaching children in Least Developed Countries (UNICEF Press Centre)
(May 9, 2011)
925 million in chronic hunger worldwide
Though improved Global hunger level "unacceptable" (September 14, 2010)
Hunger costs poor countries $450 billions a year
ActionAid report (September 14, 2010)
Food justice: The report of the food and fairness inquiry
Report from the world ethics Council (July, 2010)
Global food reserves (Share the world's resources)
Framing the context for a new multilateralism (October 20, 2009)
Emergency food security
assessment: Handbook (January, 2009)
Women
and children face starvation as Somali rebels halt food aid (SOS Children)
(January 6, 2010)
Armed Conflict and Hunger (Ellen Messer, Marc J. Cohen, Jashinta D'Costa) (World Hunger Education Service)
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Countries and specific regions |
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Africa |
Food justice: The report of the food and fairness inquiry
Report from the world ethics Council (July, 2010)
Illicit financial flows from Africa: Hidden resource for development
Global Financial Integrity (December, 2008)
Africa's development: Prospects and promises
Report of the Africa Progress Panel (2008)
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Americas |
Food Security Policies in Latin America
New trends with uncertain results (2010)
Poverty declines slightly in Latin America and the Caribbean, In spite of global financial crisis
Social panorama of Latin America report (2008)
The food crisis and Latin America
Framing a new policy approach (October 2008)
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Asia |
SRI LANKA: Food security and livelihoods hit in flood - affected East
(January 24, 2011) Food security and hunger in South Asia
The Humanitarian Centre seminar on the topic. Hughes Hall, Cambridge. (February 27, 2010)
Economic stimulus must address food crisis in Asia - Pacific (April 24, 2009)
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Europe |
Central and Eastern Europe Integrated Pest management for Western Corn Rootworm
(2003)
Twentieth General Conference for Europe World Food Summit: food security situation and issues in Europe
(April/May 1996)
Food prices and food security: Gathering storm, or tempest in a teapot?:
Central Europe
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Middle East |
Food security and economic development in he Middle East and North Africa Current state and future perspectives
(May 2010)
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