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What You Can Do to Celebrate World Food Day
Global food instability is a complex issue. Factors such as poverty, food prices, climate change, food distribution, smallholder farmers, women farmers, crude oil, fertilizers, plant varieties, pest management, irrigation, and even armed conflicts affect people’s access to food. That is why even in 2012 one billion people still go to bed hungry every night. That…
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Hunger in Schools: 1 in 5 U.S. Kids Will Face Hunger This Year
When I was in school I didn’t realize some of my peers came to school hungry. I was a kid and those things didn’t matter then. I was fortunate. I received breakfast every day before school, but that just isn’t the case for every child in America today. In fact, a new study released by…
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Helping Those in Need of Food Assistance
The World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger on the planet. They do amazing things every day in every corner of the world that needs the greatest help. The World Food Programme recently released their 2011 Year in Review. It is well worth a read if you have a chance. According to the…
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Join Kristin Davis and Djimon Hounsou on Sahel Relief
Much has been written here about the crisis in the Sahel region of western Africa. While there is no famine like we saw last year in the Horn of Africa, there are entire countries that are in desperate need of food relief. Due to failed crops and rising food prices and in some countries government…
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Will the G20 Ignore the Developing World During Euro Crisis?
While the Earth Summit takes place in Rio this week the G20 will take place in Los Cabos, Mexico. What’s on the agenda? Figuring out what to do about the Eurozone primarily. “Everybody knows that this meeting is coming at an absolutely critical time,” said World Bank President Robert Zoellick. “We’re waiting for Europe to…
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How Many People Are Affected By the Sahel Food Crisis? Probably More Than You Think.
This is a powerful graphic from Oxfam America because it clearly shows how quickly the food crisis in the Sahel is accelerating and affecting millions more people. One of the greatest problems right now in combating the Sahel food crisis is a lack of food aid funding. Oxfam is urging citizens to write a letter…
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Why Reaching the Age of Five in Developing Countries is Critical to Survival
Every year over seven million children in developing countries die before the critical age of five. Research shows that once children reach the age of five they have an increased chance of surviving through adulthood, but there are several challenges they must overcome first. This April, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), along with key…
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[Watch] World Food Programme #Food4Sahel Event
If you missed the World Food Programme’s live Google+ hangout about the Sahel hunger crisis yesterday you can watch it in its entirety on Youtube. You can see everyone who participated in this web story. Denise Brown, the World Food Programme Country Director for Niger answered questions about the food crisis in Niger. “The biggest…
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Join the World Food Programme This Wednesday to Learn About the Sahel Hunger Crisis
On Wednesday, May 30 at 12:00 PM PDT/ 3:00 PM EST/ 8:00 PM GMT the World Food Programme will host a live event aimed at raising awareness about the Sahel crisis. As the “hunger” season in Niger approaches the World Food Programme is organizing an exclusive Google+ Hangout for aid professionals, Africa specialists, and journalists.…
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Support the World Food Program With a Banner
To become an effective member of the social good movement doesn’t mean you have to partake in huge humanitarian efforts or donate tons of money to causes you care about. Social good can be witnessed in a single tweet, blog post, or even placing a badge about a cause whose work you admire on your…
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Where Does the G8 Stand On Its 2009 $22B Pledge to End Hunger?
Photo Above: Small-holder farm where Kenyan woman farmer, Teresia (right) plants cabbage and other vegetables. She also owns a small dairy cooperative. Last Friday the NGO world applauded the announcement of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a new $3B commitment by G-8 nations, African countries and private sector partners to lift 50…
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World Food Program: Feeding Women, Girls, Families
Yesterday I tuned into the World Food Program USA’s webcast, Mothers Rule the World, where those of us online learned about WFP’s efforts to feed women and girls in the developing world and thereby their entire families. Hosting the web cast was Isatou Jallow, chief of women, children and gender policy at the U.N. World…
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World Food Programme Reaches Remote Areas for Food Relief
I am always amazed by the lengths at which the World Food Programme goes to feed people in need. Last Wednesday evening I participated in a Google+ Hangout with the World Food Programme’s team in Nepal. Two members of the Nepalese food relief team said it can take at least three days to deliver food…
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Foodies: Help Hungry Kids Today
Even though it pains me to say this there is hunger everywhere, even here in the United States and in our own backyards. In fact, one in every five children in America live in food insecure homes. You may have a neighbor whose children go to school hungry every day or have a friend who…
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Grab a Banner for the World Food Programme
I love working with the World Food Programme because they do so, so much around the globe for people who do not have enough food to eat. In fact, food security is one of the primary areas of concentration for us because being hungry spurs so many other adverse implications on lives. The World Food…
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It Makes Sense to Source Food Aid From Local Areas
Oxfam America has launched a brilliant video showing how wasteful we are with food aid. The United States gives a lot of money to food relief agencies, which is a mere drop in the bucket (.05%) when looking at our budget as a whole. Oxfam says that we can feed more people (17 million more!)…
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New Partner Announcement – We Feedback
Food security is one of the primary areas of concentration that Mom Bloggers for Social Good focuses on. When people do not have enough food to survive then nothing else matters. Without food and water, people perish. Period. It is our mission to spread as much awareness about the lack of food in certain areas…
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Can You Imagine Not Being Able to Feed Your Children?
Can you imagine not being able to feed your children? I can’t either. I have never been in this situation, but mothers all across the Sahel are facing this dire dilemma even as I write this. In Mali in particular where one president stepped down on Sunday, another takes office on Thursday and rebels are…
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USAID Donates $100 Million to World Food Program
I have written a couple of times before about the famine in Africa’s Sahel region. Last year we watched the food crisis and famine in the Horn of Africa and now another famine is creeping upon western Africa because of food inflation costs, drought, conflict, and displacement. There is great news, though. Last week the World Food Program…
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New Partner Announcement – Vitamin Angels
You might remember that last week I wrote about Future Fortified’s infographic detailing hunger and its effects on children in the developing world. Simple access to food as well as vitamins will help a children become a healthier adult. I am proud to announce that we have partnered with Vitamin Angels. Vitamin Angels connects children under…