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Corn, Soy, Rice, Wheat Favored as Food Crisis Looms
May 21, 2012 | Bloomberg

AZ Cardinal raising awareness of food crisis in East Africa
March 29, 2012 | KNXV ABC 15 Phoenix, AZ

TPS conducts 'food crisis' drill
November 08, 2011 | KJRH NBC 2 Tulsa, OK

Food Crisis Wikipedia Information

A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.Although many famines coincide with national or regional shortages of food, famine has also occurred amid plenty or on account of acts of economic or military policy that have deprived certain populations of sufficient food to ensure survival...

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Sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain growth without ending hunger – UN report
May 16, 2012
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark (pointing) on a visit to Kenya to highlight food security. Photo: UNDP/Christina LoNigro ...

Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless funding shortage is addressed
April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012 - Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless multi-million dollar funding shortage for crisis response is...

Poor Spring Rain Projected in Africa
April 12, 2012
Young boys working in a newly cropped field in Africa. USGS photo April 12, 2012 - Spring rains in the...

Chad: Alarm rung late, food running out
March 13, 2012
Residents of Mangalmé District in Guéra Region dig up anthills to try to scavenge for grain the ants have left behind. Photo: Stephen Cockburn/Oxfam ...

Horn of Africa: Top 30 donors to the food crisis
July 26, 2011
NAIROBI, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - After several appeals by the UN and other aid agencies, the international community is rallying to feed an estimated 11.6 million...

Eastern Africa: Severe food crisis hits region
June 29, 2011
Rains have been bad across the region. Photo: Kenneth Odiwour/IRIN NAIROBI, 28 June 2011 (IRIN) - Eastern Africa is experien...

From around the web

Sen. Richard Lugar's career over the years
May 09, 2012 | indystar.com
2008: Lugar introduces legislation to address a global food crisis and votes against the Bush Economic Stimulus Act. 2009: Lugar opposes health-care reform legislation. 2012:...

Drought and Cold Snap Cause Food Crisis in Northern Mexico
January 30, 2012 | New York Times
Government officials said the drought is the worst since record-keeping began and has left two million people without access to water and devastated cropland in nearly half of the...

Do not let U. S.'s role in famine be cut
August 15, 2011 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The historic drought continues to fuel a growing food crisis, which impacts more than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa -- a group larger than the populations of Houston...

WB Meet Fails To Address Islamic Finance Role In Development
October 03, 2011 | The Memri Economic Blog
in the Middle East and North Africa, and food crisis''. While Ali went on to also discuss his concerns over global economic recovery; the economic growth and prospects in IDB...

Rihanna Rocks a Bikini Top and Will Tweet For a Good Cause
August 09, 2011 | PopSugar
She teamed up with 150 other stars, like David Beckham and Justin Bieber, for Save the Children's campaign to raise awareness about East Africa's food crisis. Today, the...

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