Hunger
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Following the Africa for Norway spoof single, the Rusty Radiator awards point the finger at the most damaging fundraising campaigns. This is Africa reports
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European council extends counter-piracy patrols for two years to secure humanitarian aid shipments to Somalia from the UN’s World Food Programme
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As our world faces rising social and environmental challenges, how can leaders improve food security and nutrition? Join our debate on 27 November 2014, 1-3pm GMT
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Tens of thousands of South Sudanese people have poured across the border into Ethiopia to escape conflict in recent months
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Vitamin A, iodine, iron, zinc and folate deficiencies affect billions of children. How can the quality of food be improved?
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What should NGOs be thinking about when providing assistance to smallholders in the global south? Our panel give their tips
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Nutrition was neglected in the millennium development goals, so we need tougher targets to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 writes Glen Tarman
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How much do you know about global hunger? Carla Kweifio-Okai takes a look at some of the biggest food production and nutrition myths
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Contrary to what many believe, studies from Peru and India show stunting can be reversed in later childhood, writes Andreas Georgiadis
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Though hunger has been reduced substantially, poor-quality food perpetuates a ‘vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition’
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Most of the world’s poorest people are subsistence farmers. Join us on 16 Oct - World Food Day - 1-3pm BST to discuss how to help them
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How can NGOs capitalise on private sector resources and expertise to end malnutrition? Our panel give their tips
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Outbreak has crippled domestic production and measures to contain disease have increased country’s reliance on imports
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Forget the green revolution, Chad’s farmers will need help to just grow enough to eat, let alone supply the market, writes Gene Fifer
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Unicef and WFP have been flying in rapid response teams to provide food and medical aid to the hungry in South Sudan’s civil war havens
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The FAO credits agricultural investments and successful government policies with cutting undernutrition by 10%
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Legislation has been passed to add iron, vitamin A and zinc to staple foods, but will unregistered small businesses comply? Ewan Robinson and Martha Nyagaya report
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Why are WFP and UNHCR struggling to raise funds for humanitarian emergencies that don’t make the headlines?
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Pyongyang presses on with its nuclear programme and prestige projects while millions remain malnourished. Our expert panel asks whether donations are the best response
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Mobile phones have been lauded as an asset to nutrition projects, but more evidence of the benefits is needed, writes Inka Barnett
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The Jay Family have a fertile message for their compatriots to stave off hunger and resolve conflicts
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Sharp rise in prices, which could lead to a further 500,000 Yeminis living below the breadline, has sparked fierce protests
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The majority of smallholder farmers are female, so what can academics do to ensure their views are heard?
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Voices from the south Farmer, retailer, mother, teacher: a woman's life in rural Kenya - in pictures
Milcah Wasike, smallholder farmer in Miendo, Western Kenya, takes us through her daily routine
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Jayati Ghosh: India cannot support an agreement that ignores food security when millions of its people go to bed hungry each night
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Andrew Green: Urgent need for peace ignored as another deadline for a deal passes and splinter groups of rebels threaten to spread conflict
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World Bank, UN and WHO assessing how to make deliveries as threat of health crisis from malnutrition deepens
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Lizard diet ridiculed but Central America’s poorest country is facing hunger because of poor harvests and rising food prices
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Expanding our definition of food could address global food shortages and improve nutrition, but can we stomach it? Rich McEachran reports
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Scares over lizard and worms in food highlight flaws in flagship programme as India struggles to reach most remote schools, reports Paromita Pain
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William Davison: President Salva Kiir and rival Riek Machar meet for African-led negotiations but ongoing violence dents hopes of resolution
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UN asks for $100m as conflicts drive refugees into drought-stricken Sahel countries already experiencing food insecurity
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Prolonged dry spells push pastoralists to the brink of starvation as food prices soar and cattle raids spiral out of control. Jessica Hatcher reports
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In a recently published index, researchers analysed the political commitment to hunger and nutrition of 45 developing countries
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Community food banks in Niger - run exclusively by women - are reducing the impact of the food crisis on local communities
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- Food security
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- Malnutrition
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- United Nations
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