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Anti-poverty group ONE pushes for G8 food deal

A new report by ONE Campaign said increased donor support for agricultural investment plans in 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Central America could lift about 50 million people out of extreme poverty. Leaders from the wealthy Group o [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty, food bank use down in Saskatchewan

David DeBenedetti has been making the 80-kilometre drive to the Regina Food Bank from Lebret since losing his full-time job in the tree service industry three years ago. “I needed an order of food because I’m a little short [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty, Food Stamp Use Hits Record High

The most recent numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows the country now has a record-breaking number of people receiving food stamp benefits. Alabama saw a huge uptick following a major natural disaster, but a major r [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Food Prices Deepening Global Poverty

Since the first meeting of this every 10-year event in 1971, the number of least-developed countries has increased, and U.N. officials say the population of the world's 48 poorest nations is expected to double to 1.7 billion by 2050. [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Soaring food prices threaten to push mlns of Asians into pov...

Resurgent global food prices, which posted record increases in the first two months of 2011, are again threatening to push millions of people in developing Asia into extreme poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report Tues [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

High food prices keep millions in Asia-Pacific region in pov...

High food prices prevented more than 19 million people in the Asia-Pacific region from lifting themselves out of poverty last year, the United Nations said in a new study released today, warning that soaring food and fuel inflation will [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Food Stamps and Tax Aid Kept Poverty Rate in Check

Without a flood of food stamps and tax benefits for low-income families, about 250,000 more New Yorkers would have slipped into poverty at the height of the recession, according to calculations to be released Monday by city officials. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Unicef Says 6.6 Million Zimbabweans Living Below Food Povert...

The United Nations Children’s Fund says 78 percent of Zimbabweans are “absolutely poor” and 55 percent of the population lives under the food poverty line. A UNICEF report entitled “Child-Sensitive Social Protecti [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Demand for food grows with rising poverty

A new Hunger in America 2010 report shows that 37 million people one in eight receive emergency food each year through the nation’s network of food banks and the agencies they serve. The hungry include 14 million childr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Stampede for food kills 18 in Pakistan

The stampede in Karachi came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a traditional time for charitable acts including giving away food. Pakistan's battered economy, combined with higher than usual prices for staples such as sugar due to al [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Call for measures to enhance food security

This was stated by former finance minister Sartaj Aziz, while delivering a lecture on ‘Food security for the poor’ organised by the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) here on Sunday. He said an average agricultural [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Urban food poverty up by 2 per cent

Urban food poverty in Kenya has increased by two per cent in the last decade, an anti-poverty organisation says.The Global Call to Action Against Poverty says that in 1997, urban food poverty incidence in the country stood at 38.3 percent, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Dispatches from a crisis: It's not the food, it's the povert...

For years, even decades, they have been sounding the alarm on what the international community has only recently recognized as a food crisis. But the crisis, they say, is not new. In fact, it has been decades in the making. And they would [...]