OSAKA, JAPAN – JUNE 28: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), Indian Prime Minister … [+] Narendra Modi (C) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) pose for a group photo prior t...
Tag: Hunger
Wife Of Australian Engineer Jailed In Iraq Threatens Hunger Strike To Force His Release
Desree Pether and daughter Nala demand the release of Robert Pether from an Iraqi jail, during a … [+] protest outside the Iraqi embassy in London on November 22, 2022 Desree Pether The wife of ...
Do Your Part To Put Hunger Relief In The Black
A hungry little girl looking for a meal source: Inspired Walk Ministry There are a multitude of stories going back to the 1890’s about the origin of the term “Black Friday.” It may have come from a cr...
France Hoping Youth And Hunger Can Beat “World Cup Winner’s Curse”
(From L) France’s forward Moussa Diabi, France’s midfielder Matteo Guendouzi, France’s defender … [+] Jules Kounde, France’s midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni and FranceR...
José Andrés Has Some Things To Get Off His Chest As World Central Kitchen Prepares For A Brutal Ukraine Winter
Chef José Andrés pulls out his iPhone to flip between two images from Ukraine. One, a video, shows a crowd of people getting hot soup in a tent staffed by his international food-aid group, World Centr...
What It Could Take To End Hunger In America, Hurricane Ian Hits Florida Farming And Inside Marion Nestle’s ‘Slow Cooked’
Retirees swimming in their flooded South Florida living rooms. Entire houses getting sucked out to sea. Restaurants, grocers and food banks out of commission. Tomato fields and citrus orchards wrecked...
The Biden Administration Announces $8 Billion In Commitments To Address Hunger, Nutrition, And Health Issues
Today, President Biden and key senior officials hosted the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The goal behind the conference is straightforward: to address issues regarding food ...
Better Diet Quality Leads To Better Health And Wellbeing For Americans
September should be a big month for nutrition. For too long, we have struggled and failed to curb food and nutrition insecurity, to mitigate rising rates of obesity, and to reduce the prevalence of di...
UN article “Benefits of World Hunger” taken down – This is why Bitcoin exists
A United Nations article that referred to world hunger as having “great positive value” and that “no one works harder than hungry people” was taken down from the website amid huge controversy. Bitcoin...
Here’s The Latest Data On Climate And Food And It’s Not Good
Challenges abound as industrial agriculture is threatened by access to key resources from water to healthy soils. As a devastating and historic drought from Illinois to Texas to California grinds on, ...
Where Walmart Doesn’t Exist, Ukraine’s Stolen Grain And Inside Gastro
I’m back after a long weekend of drinking mojitos and eating ceviche in Key West, where I was closer to Cuba than to the nearest Walmart. I relished that rarity. Walmart dominates America’s grocery sc...
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without enough to eat. Now, Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports has made it even harder for the world’s hungri...
Why ‘Hunger Games’ Co-Producer Bryan Unkeless Is Making His Next Sci-Fi Project in Web3
On the planet Omega, speed is power, and whoever wins its racing competition rules the world. That’s the premise behind the Web3 multimedia sci-fi project Runner, co-created with Metaversal by Bryan U...
Russia’s Control of Snake Island Spells Hunger and Instability for Parts of Africa and The Middle East
A view of Snake Island, Ukraine which is currently occupied and controlled by a Russian garrison. Wikipedia commons Russia’s foothold on Snake Island, a smattering of land off the coast of Western Ukr...
How Water Became A Weapon, The Caribbean’s Food Insecurity Problem And From Blog To $25 Million Business
It’s been a busy week on the food and agriculture beat: There was the House Agriculture Committee hearing featuring top meatpacking CEOs, there was Beyond Meat’s pop from McPlant fake news, and ...
In The Caribbean, Severe Food Insecurity Has Increased By 72% In The Past Two Years
A series of surveys administered by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have revealed that, in the English-speaking Caribbean, the estim...
Hunger and Blackouts Are Just the Start of an Emerging Economy Crisis
(Bloomberg) — A barrage of shocks is building that’s unlike anything emerging markets have had to confront since the 1990s, when a series of rolling crises sank economies and toppled governments...
No Caviar Comes From Russia, The Deep Roots Of Regenerative Farming And The Brink Of A Global Hunger Catastrophe
Most American farmers overapply fertilizer. That’s the standard. It’s also a leading cause of waterway pollution and dead zones like the massive one in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as of soil degradati...
War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe On The Way With Solutions Tough To Come By
Dmytro Smolienko/Getty Images Disrupted exports, drought, refugees to feed and record-high fertilizer prices conspire to spread food insecurity worldwide. By Chloe Sorvino Tens of millions of people, ...
Blockchain aid to minimize world hunger by NBA merch designer
Blockchain will be used by Shawn Kurz to reduce worldwide hunger Traditional charity systems will be removed for the good by the new platform FoodChain Global token (FOOD) is a digital asset product...
Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the worl...
NBA merch designer turned to blockchain to help end world hunger
When he’s not designing merch for the NBA or supplying coffee for big retailers, Shawn Kurz is fighting world hunger with the help of blockchain technology. Motivated to mend the shortcomings of trad...
Crypto Story: Can Crypto Solve Afghanistan’s Extreme Hunger ?
Fereshteh Forough believed that when the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan in August of last year, the organization would close her school in Herat, the country’s third-largest city. The Taliban r...