The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety.”
Michael Pollan is professor of journalism at Berkeley
Hunger is most urgent threat to children worldwide
For the first time in a decade, the number of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition has risen, threatening the substantial progress made in child health and education in the developing world.
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
Chad – a week’s food
Adjitti Mahamat ,40, cooks the one big meal a day for as many as ten children, including Kadija Ahmat 2, (on her back). Kassira Village, Guera province, Chad. 13/2/12 read on what is on the menu for the rest of the week
Kenyan farmers share their priorities in life – in pictures
Researchers from the climate change, agriculture and food security research programme of the Consultative Group on Agricultural Research and the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute recently held a series of workshops in east and west Africa to find out what matters to farmers, how they perceive their present and future challenges and how they can be empowered to tackle them. Here is how farmers from Othidhe village, in Nyanza province, south west Kenya, responded.
The series of photos will be officially launched at the Agriculture and Rural Development Day on Saturday 3 December in Durban, South Africa to coincide with the COP17 climate negotiations
‘Hungry Planet: What The World Eats’
Imagine inviting yourself to dinner with 30 different families… in 24 countries. Imagine shopping, farming, cooking and eating with those families… taking note of every vegetable peeled, every beverage poured, every package opened.
Well that’s what photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D’Aluisio did for their new book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
© 2005 Peter Menzel from ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats’
Somalis seek refuge in Ethiopian camps – in pictures
by Samuel Hauenstein Swan – sambronx-photo.ch
Families fleeing drought in Somalia cross the border into Ethiopia and seek help in the Dollo Ado refugee camps
Families from Somalia walk for days, and even weeks, to reach the Dollo Ado refugee complex in Ethiopia, and arrive exhausted and dehydrated. Hundreds of children and pregnant women are malnourished and need special therapeutic foods to help them to recover
see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2011/oct/08/ethiopia-somalia-refugee-camps?newsfeed=true#/?picture=379837249&index=0
Rethinking the famine story – a multimedia series
Dr Dave Clark, working as a multimedia journalist for China Daily, set out this summer to do something different. Focusing on the larger issue of food insecurity in Asia, he photographed, filmed and produced a six-part video series to provide a more complex story. Shooting in Nepal, Bangladesh and China, Clark explored the impact of population growth, urban growth, changing tastes and biotechnology. http://www.imaging-famine.org/blog/
Brendan Bannon: Dadaab Refugee Camp (Boston Globe Big Picture: August 2011)
- Daud Ali, a severely malnourished child at a Doctors Without Borders’ therapeutic feeding center in Dagahaley camp.
A father cradles his severely malnourished child on a bus provided by UNHCR and IOM to move a group of stranded and vulnerable refugees from Hamey, Kenya. Most refugees make the journey from the border to the camps by foot at great peril. The roads are lined with bandits and many women report being raped during the trek.
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