Emergency food aid: A hindrance to achieving community food security in Ciudad Colon? Author: Lauren Bernardi According to Banco de Alimentos de Mora founder, Carlos, there are approximately 400 food insecure individuals that reside in Ciudad Colon. Of this population, he estimates that about 90% of these individuals are elderly
Food Security and Conflicts. Case Study: Anglophone Crisis, Cameroon Author: John Carlvin Piyinchu There is a tragic link between conflict and hunger and how it still pervades far too much of the world. We need better and quicker access in all conflict zones, so we can get to more of
Waging Peace On Hunger Author: Frederick Livingston Translated into Spanish by Gilma Cristina Sánchez Cossio There has always been enough. Therein lies the tragedy of a world where almost 1 billion people go hungry, while twice that number suffer the health consequences of over-nutrition (Popkin, 2017). Despite centuries of famine
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Depleted Uranium not a factor in Iraqi food insecurity Author: Roger Helbig Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 10/15/2008 Category: Letters to the Editor Ross, There is no munition “tipped with depleted uranium” — there are kinetic energy penetrator rounds that are solid small diameter rods of DU
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World Food Day: October 16 Author: Kerri Drumm Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 10/06/2008 The current economic fears and impending US recession highlight the vulnerably of millions worldwide and make this year’s World Food Day particularity relevant. The theme, World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change
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This paper reviews the current state of affairs of food security in Peru and discusses how Climate Change may be a threat in the short term, especially for rural farmers.
Awa Mangie Achu Samba outlines a policy for urban food security in Bamako, Mali, based on participatory governance, community gardens, and improved agricultural technology.
With a view to promoting public discussion and debate about these agreements, we present here an analysis of the implications and scope of some of those that have already been signed. We also analyse the implications of some European Union documents, published over the last two years, that set out
The fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the wheat planes just south of Basra were, until the 1980s, the base of a robust agricultural sector in modern Iraq. This essay traces the steady and tragic decline of the Iraqi food system over the last 3 decades, emphasizing
