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From Security To Poverty, $70K to Foodbank
- Expert says charities are reporting a rise in middle-class families
at food banks
- Guererro: "It just happened so fast. It happened in a matter of --
what -- two months"
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When Handouts Keep Coming, the Food Line Never Ends
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cycle of need -- always present, rarely sated, never resolved -- will
continue.
- But what we have done instead is to continue down a road that never
comes to an end. Like transportation planners who add more lanes to already
clogged highways, we add more space to our food banks in the futile hope
of relieving the congestion.
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Facing a Threat to Farming and Food Supply
- Climate change may be global in its sweep, but not all of the globe's
citizens will share equally in its woes. And nowhere is that truth more evident,
or more worrisome, than in its projected effects on agriculture.
- , on track to be the world's most populous country, could
see a 40 percent decline in agricultural productivity by the 2080s as record
heat waves bake its wheat-growing region, placing hundreds of millions of
people at the brink of chronic hunger.
- some African countries,
including
and war-torn
, are on track to suffer what amounts to complete agricultural
collapse,
- And those estimates do not count the effects of new plant pests and
diseases, which are widely expected to come with climate change and could
cancel out the positive "fertilizing" effects that higher carbon dioxide
levels may offer some plants.
- cut the amount of carbon
dioxide released from the soil
- For the truly pessimistic, there is always the "doomsday vault,"
a seed bank being constructed in a Norwegian mountainside that nations around
the world are stocking with every kind of seed imaginable.
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Forced To Eat Dirt Haits Poor
- Charlene, 16 with a one-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional
Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the
country's central plateau.
- Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings
and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening
have become a regular meal.
- Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her
lap, looking slightly thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed
at birth.
- At the market in the La Salines slum, two cups of rice now sell for
$0.60, up 10 cents from December and 50% from a year ago. Beans, condensed
milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the
edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100
cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.
- Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La
Salines market, a maze of tables of sweet-smelling vegetables and meat swarming
with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places
such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town.
- Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the
former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps
on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into
mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun
- A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency
and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue.
For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingere
- Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her
seven children. Her family also eats them.
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Famines May Occur Without Record Crops This Year, Potash Say
- Global grain stockpiles
fell to about 53 days of supply last year, the lowest level since record-keeping
began in 1960
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- donations thinning for the morning prayers. He knew exactly
why: inflation.
- prices soaring for staples such as cooking oils, wheat, lentils,
milk and rice across the globe,
- Munapar, a father of eight who lives in a makeshift camp of migrant
workers, said he came to New Delhi in hopes of a better life. Instead, he
has found hardship
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New breed of American emerges in need of food
- Neither are many of the 27.5 million Americans relying on government
aid to keep food on their tables amid unemployment and rising prices. Average
enrollment in the food stamps program has surpassed the record set in 1994,
though the percentage of Americans on food stamps is still lower than records
set in 1993-95. The numbers continue to climb.
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Australian Hunger
- 13% of Australian adults and 15% of children live in poverty
- 2.4 million Australians don't have enough money to take care of basic
needs such as housing, clothing and food.
- In Australia a million children don't get enough to eat
- Hunger is a largely hidden social problem and many victims suffer
in silence. The victims could be a child, unemployed or elderly person in
your street
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Child hunger an increasingly complex problem
- Three weeks before he was elected president,
Barack
Obama set an audacious goal: end hunger among children in the United
States by 2015.
- Since his inauguration, Obama has seldom broached the subject
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- A U.S. Department of Agriculture
program in Vermont, 12 other states and the District of Columbia provides
reimbursements for the suppers, served at after-school programs for at-risk
kids in communities where at least 50 percent of households fall below the
poverty level.
- The number of Americans who live in food-insecure households - which
at times don't have enough nutritious food - rose from 36 million people
in 2007 to 49 million in 2008
- Nearly one in four children in the U.S. are food insecure and about
one in five live in poverty
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