Tag: famine
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WFP BREAKS RECORD WITH FOOD SUPPORT IN SOMALIA AMID FAMINE RISK
MOGADISHU – The United Nations World Food Programme is delivering life-saving food and nutrition assistance to record numbers of people in Somalia, with over 4 million people a month receiving urgent humanitarian support to prevent famine in the face of the region’s worst drought in over 40 years. The scale-up has helped keep the worst outcomes…
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The Consolidation Of North American Food
Adam Jacob sent in this tell-all graphic that is pretty shocking. If these statistics are true then ‘it’s clear the small food producer is an endangered species. Unless of course, they start supplying the big chain corporate grocery store chains. And that will likely spell the end of family farm gate-retail…and that will spell the…
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Mark Canada 150 By Raising 150K Meals For Haiti Children With This UN App
CANADA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched the #ASK1TOASK1 campaign, asking all Canadians to join the challenge to raise 150,000 meals for children in Haiti through the ShareTheMeal app to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary. Every day, countless children in Haiti turn up for school on an empty stomach, which makes it…