When I was growing up as a kid, billionaires were evil, in the Bond movies, in Spy novels, in newspapers and the like. They were always twisted, bitter, power-hungry megalomaniacs bent on world control. In this day and age we have come to worship Billionaires, they are the Superheroes...
In 2012, food insecurity is still a major global concern as 1 billion people are suffering from starvation, under-, and malnutrition, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has concluded that we are still far from reaching
This has led the international body to call for Sh27 billion in additional funding over the next six months to help refugees get enough to eat, particularly children and pregnant women who need nutritious food for development. But in the meantime, finding innovative ways to put food waste to ...
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Being hungry but having nothing to eat 0.684 0.318 0.464 12 Children's staying hungry because of the inability to provide food 0.752 0.354 0.470 13 Eliminating many of food meals from the diet of adults 0.628 0.319 0.507 14 Losing weight because of inadequate food 0.785 0.412 0.524 15 Not hav...
We hope to call attention to the need to monitor food systems globally to inform decisions and support accountability for better governance of food systems as part of the transformation process. Transformation is possible in the next decade, but rigorous evidence is needed in the countdown to the...
Perhaps most exciting to me is an idea that Bill Gates, Howard Buffett and others have supported boldly, which is to ask the question: What if, instead of looking at the hungry as victims -- and most of them are small farmers who cannot raise enough food or sell food to even support ...
Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit and eat it. Some of the broader dangers were cited recently by Norman Borlaug, winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of wheat strains essential for the famed Green ...
She is a stalwart ally of former US national security adviser Susan Rice, who pushed for war in Libya, supported the invasion of Iraq, and was involved in the decision to remove peacekeepers from the United Nations which enabled Rwanda genocide. As a developer and manager for US policy ...
Perhaps most exciting to me is an idea that Bill Gates, Howard Buffett and others have supported boldly, which is to ask the question: What if, instead of looking at the hungry as victims -- and most of them are small farmers who cannot raise enough food or sell food to even support ...