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Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts

Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts

Jun 19, 2010

N. Korea lifts restrictions on private markets as last resort in food crisis

North Koreans work on a farm near the Yalu River . A dire food shortage has led the government to lift all restrictions on private marke...

Nov 17, 2009

Hunger a growing problem in America, USDA reports - washingtonpost.com

Image by thisisbossi via Flickr USDA report on access to food 'unsettling,' Obama says By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Wr...

Nov 2, 2009

A Glass Darkly - Desperate for Food

Image via Wikipedia In the early 1990s famine took hold in North Korea. The inefficient collective farms had never been able to feed the pop...

Sep 12, 2009

Ending Africa's Hunger - Nation

Image via Wikipedia By Raj Patel , Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck This article appeared in the September 21, 2009 edition of T...

Jun 26, 2009

Climate Change Worsens Hunger Issues in Western Timor

Climate change is worsening the hunger problem in Indonesia's West Timor province (ed. - NTT), which is already rivalling Africa. ...

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