Eradication of Poverty

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Comment by Clicia Pavan on June 9, 2009 at 3:47pm

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Comment by White Buffalo Calf Woman on May 1, 2009 at 6:54am

i lost my comment, not the first time at ipeace. alittle touchy isn't it and cannot remember the pages. not so good for writers.
so sorry.

Comment by Helena Sousa on April 22, 2009 at 8:53pm

CARE Defending Dignity - Fighting Poverty -human.mht

Comment by Monica on April 18, 2009 at 10:08am

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Comment by Clicia Pavan on April 7, 2009 at 4:17pm

Merciless tide of global hunger reaches 1 billion

Javier Blas
In London
A tsunami was the image chosen to describe the blow of the crisis of food last year. The current situation recalls the increase more slowly and a ruthless tide, gradually dragging more and more people into the ranks of the undernourished.

Almost unnoticed behind the economic crisis, a combination of lower growth, rising unemployment and fall in remittances of money with persistently high prices of food increased the number of chronically hungry for the first time over 1 billion.

The increase reversed a decline over the past quarter century in the proportion of chronically hungry people in the world. "We have not left the food crisis," said Josette Sheeran, head of World Food Program of the UN in Rome, which needs about $ 6 billion this year to feed the poor, an increase of 20% in compared to the record $ 5 billion last year.

"The impact of high prices of last year continues. Furthermore, the countries now suffer a loss of income due to the global financial crisis," she said, repeating the view of other authorities and experts interviewed by the Financial Times.

Kanayo Nwanze, the new president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the UN, warned that migrants are returning to the inside of the cities in large numbers, creating extra pressure.

"There will be more mouths to feed with little or no food," he said.

The crisis is expanding out of Africa as the economic recession is added to the impact of high prices. Countries that had little problem with food for almost 20 years, as Kyrgyzstan, are now asking for help.

The worst is yet to come as the impact of recession on the purchasing power becomes more evident and the cost of food remains high, said authorities, the industry executives and experts.

Robert Paarlberg, professor of political science from Wellesley College in the United States and a respected expert in agriculture, said was "most concerned about hunger than with the current economic crisis" than "at the peak of the increase in prices of commodities food in the middle of last year. "

Peter Brabeck, chairman of food giant Nestlé, also thinks the crisis is worsening.

"Do not forget that food prices are now about 60% higher than they were 18 months ago. And that means that people spend 60%, 70% of their disposable income on food, were hit very, very strongly , "he said.

The alerts occur despite the global prices of agricultural commodities have fallen sharply compared to last year's record high. Among the basic items, the price of corn, wheat and rice fell by almost half. However, Allan Buckwell, professor emeritus of agricultural economics from Imperial College in London, said the agricultural commodities back to the level of mid-2007.

"The food prices not dropped as in other commodities such as oil," he said.

Furthermore, prices are well above its average for the last 10 years, with some being traded twice the level of 1998-2008, despite the fall.

For example, the current cost of Thai rice, the world benchmark, to $ 614 a tonne, is more than double its average of the past 10 years, from U.S. $ 290 a tonne. Moreover, the domestic prices of food in many developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, fell or not a little, and in some cases, are rising again because of the impact of poor harvest and lack of credit for imports .

Sheeran points precisely to this problem: "The local prices are rising. For example, the price of maize in Malawi rose 100% last year, while prices of wheat in Afghanistan are 67% higher than a year ago."

Exacerbating the situation, the farmers around the world are planting less, thus reducing the production of this year, potentially helping to keep food prices on the rise, despite weak demand as a result of the economic crisis.

In the United States, the largest exporter of agricultural commodities in the world, the farmers should break the five years of expansion of cultivated land, reducing the area of 7 million acres, the largest drop in 20 years. Elsewhere, the concern is that the poor farmers of money, particularly in countries sources of food such as Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil, will reduce its use of high-yield hybrid seeds and fertilizers, thus hampering harvest.

The main scenario of nightmare between the agriculture and food aid, and the sector of food-is that a wave of unexpected bad weather impaired the next harvest. With stocks of agricultural commodities at low multiples of years, this could cause a rise in prices, leading other than the economic crisis
Namaste

Comment by Eleni on April 3, 2009 at 6:51am

Comment by Eleni on April 3, 2009 at 6:49am

★ According to the FAO:
★Animals consume more protein than they produce.
For every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of animal protein
produced, animals consume an average of almost 6
kilograms, or more than 13 pounds, of plant protein
from grains and forage.

Because animals consume much more protein than they
produce, grains that should be consumed by humans are
consumed by animals instead. Thus, along with other
factors, animal agriculture condemns many human beings
to starvation.

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Comment by Free_Digital_Soule on March 20, 2009 at 4:12pm

Make Poverty History - A video response to Bono with a short summary of how it can be done!

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