The Next Breadbasket
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth has hummed along at about 5 percent a year for the past decade, besting that of the U.S. and the European Union. National debts are declining, and peaceful elections are being held with increasing frequency. More than one in three sub-Saharan Africans now own cell phones and use them for mobile banking, to run small businesses, or send money to relatives in rural areas. After 25 years of virtually no investment in African agriculture, the World Bank and donor countries have stepped up. The continent is emerging as a laboratory for testing new approaches to boosting food production. by Joel K. Bourne, Jr. Photographs by Robin Hammond LINK
Anthony Suau’s Organic Rising
You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard it, but the saying doesn’t seem as simple as it used to. The question of a healthy diet now extends beyond “broccoli or beef?” These days, we’re left wondering how substances like pesticides, antibiotics, and GMOs affect us when we consume them. We’re not even sure how to tell which ones end up on the table. Link
The Starving Town Of Ganyliel Fighting breeds hunger.
Fighting breeds hunger.
In South Sudan, thousands have been killed in political and ethnic fighting since December. The fighting has disrupted much of daily life and left nearly 7 million at risk of hunger and 3.7 million facing starvation, according to the United Nations. Last week, Peter Biro of the International Rescue Committee visited the northern town of Ganyliel, South Sudan. Link
ACCESS FOR ALL: nutrition success stories from West Pokot / Kenya
This series on the Action Against Hunger Webbed, has been developed off the back of a Trip I posed on this blog earlier I travel across the region to determine how many children are malnourished and how many of those are able to access treatment. We walked house-to-house visiting families, to find out what barriers mothers face and what solutions could work. See the resulting pictures and video by following this link as well as full report following here. All material
Copyright S Hauenstein Swan
Hunger in Kenya
West Pokot, at the edge of the Rift Valley in Kenya, is a vast county where luscious green mountains meet scorched savanna. Action Against Hunger and the Kenyan Ministry of Health are supporting families with malnourished children across the county, as well as addressing some of the difficulties they face in accessing treatment. Photo by: Samuel Hauenstein Swan link
Colombia civil war and hunger
COLOMBIA – NOVEMBER 2007: A father displays the body of his dead son in his arms. Fighting in the area meant that the child could not be evacuated from the village for medical treatment, so died of hunger and diarrhea. The presence of the different active armed groups within local communities is one of the main reasons for the displacement of civilians. (Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Edit by Getty Images)
Niger Revisiting an Unfinished Crisis
Seasonal hunger in the Sahel has once again escalated into a major food crisis. In Niger, shortfalls in food production, rising food prices and on-going poverty have pushed tens of thousands of families into food insecurity and thousands of children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. copyright http://www.sambronx-photo.ch Samuel Hauenstein Swan link
Tsara’s Meal — Niger and the Sahel Food Crisis
After five years I revisited Tsare and her family in her village Guidan Koura central Niger. On assignment for Action Against Hunger. She leads a household of 9 people; I say she as her husband is absent for most of the year returning only for brief periods of a months or two to help with the planting.
Stocks have lasted only a month after the rains failed last year. The lean season has begun early and their meals are reduced drastically. In front of them is laid out what is their meal for the day. It is a bowl of collected wild leaves, she cooks with water, oil, groundnut cubes, salt, piripiri and Maggi. For the past three and the coming four months this was and will be their stable once a day. The children get some times some millet porridge.
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A View of Hunger in North Korea
Damir Sagolj, a Bangkok-based Reuters photographer, was among a group of journalists invited last week by North Korea’s Economy and Trade Information Center to document the food crisis in the country’s farm belt. North Korea has appealed for food aid after a harsh winter and a series of summer floods and storms, but so far, only 30 percent of a United Nations aid target has been met.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/a-view-of-hunger-in-north-korea/?src=tp
Coping with drought: farmers in east Africa
The drought crisis in the Horn of Africa has led to displacement and disruption for many small farmers and pastoralist communities. ActionAid, Send a Cow and Farm Africa are all working on long-term strategies to support farmers in their communities and to address food insecurity: read more : http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2011/aug/17/drought-kenya-ethiopia-uganda-farmers
