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Second Harvest Tailgate at McCulloch Park
Muncie :: IN :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food for families in need at the monthly Tailgate Program on Wednesday, November 25, 2009. The Second Harvest Tailgate will be held at McCulloch Park, located at the corner of Martin Luther...
Tags: Second Harvest Food Bank, Muncie, Muncie Indiana, Hunger, Northwest Indiana, Indiana, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Food banks, Feeding America, East Central Indiana, Environment, Disaster Accident
UN official questions world's hunger commitment
Rome :: Italy | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry...Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome ended with little new...
Tags: Jacques Diouf, Oxfam, U.N. Food, Norway, Italy, Rome, Diplomatic conferences, Malnutrition, Diouf, Hunger, G8, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food politics, International organizations
Charity study shows 6M seniors at risk of hunger
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly six million seniors are at risk of being hungry. The charity says in the study that poverty also correlates with hunger, but most seniors who have trouble getting food live above...
Tags: Chicago, Harrah's Entertainment, Poverty, Las Vegas Nevada, Charities, Meals on Wheels, Hunger, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
New approach to aid needed in Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 1 day ago
Credibility Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million...
Tags: Ethiopian, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Red Cross, Development, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Famine, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Humanitarian aid, Aid, International organizations, Disaster Accident, Least Developed Countries, Poverty, Hunger, African Union member states, African countries, Horn of Africa, Somalia, world food price crisis, Malnutrition, World Food Programme, Social Issues, Environment
Uncle Sam's hungry brood
Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago
Credibility More than a million children regularly go to bed hungry in the United States, according to a government report that shows a startling increase in the number of families struggling to put food on the table. US President Barack Obama, who pledged to eradicate...
Tags: food banks, food security, Feeding America, Italy, Rome, Security, Urban agriculture, Hunger, Food Stamp Program, Food politics, Humanitarian aid, Social Issues
Food banks burdened by high demand in sour economy
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Soup kitchen workers are seeing new faces in line and charities are taking more calls for help as the recession makes for a less-than-bountiful Thanksgiving. Hunger relief advocates came to Congress on Thursday and painted a bleak picture of a country...
Tags: Catholic Charities, food banks, Josh Fogt, Washington, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Food bank, Hunger, Food security, Social Issues
Food for People kicks off holiday food drive
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The Redwood Unit will deliver non-perishable food donations via pack train, rain or shine, to Food for People's facility located at 307 W...The public is invited to greet and thank the Redwood Unit Horsemen this Saturday at noon. Food for People currently...
Tags: Humboldt County, Food for People, Los Angeles, Food banks, Hunger, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Disaster Accident
Hunger on the rise in Connecticut
Bridgeport :: CT :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Agamy is executive director of the Shelton-based Area Congregations Together, which runs both the homeless shelter Spooner House and the Valley Food Bank. In its 2008 fiscal year, which went from Oct. 1, 2007 to Sept. 30, 2008, the agency served 61,000...
Tags: Bridgeport Rescue Mission, Connecticut Food Bank, food banks, Susan Agamy, Connecticut Report, Linda M. Casey, Nancy Carrington, food insecurity, Bridgeport, Hunger, Meals on Wheels, Food, Fairfield Connecticut, Bridgeport Connecticut, Soup kitchen
'Futile' FAO summit ends in Rome
Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago
Credibility Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:22:42 GMT Font size : World leaders have concluded a three-day summit on global food security without reaching an agreement on a $44 billion aid package to help the world's poorest farmers. At a press conference following the summit...
Tags: Jacques Diouf, food security, FAO, Rome, world hunger, fao summit, agriculture organised, Italy, Diouf, Hunger, World Summit on Food Security, world food price crisis, Business Finance, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food politics, Malnutrition, Social Issues, Boediono, World Food Programme, Doha Development Round, Disaster Accident, International organizations, Humanitarian aid, G8, Diplomatic conferences, Oxfam
Renewed call to help farmers
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 3 days ago
Credibility National Food Crop Farmers Association, Norris Deonarine, yesterday renewed his call for a proper policy framework for agriculture development and food security. He said there were persons in oil and gas rich TT who did not know where their next meal...
Tags: Norris Deonarine, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Humanitarian aid, Security, Urban agriculture, Agriculture, Hunger, Food politics, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food security, Environment
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