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Topia!: Society: Issues: Poverty: Hunger (60)
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 Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development - Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger.
Bread for the World - Bread for the World stands in a long biblical and prophetic tradition of those who speak out boldly in defense of people who are poor, hungry and consigned to the margins of society. People of faith and conscience have long engaged in the struggle for a more just world. They have fought for the abolition of slavery, for an end to nuclear proliferation and for the respect of human dignity and freedom. World Hunger Resource Center (WHRC) - A comprehensive respository of resources dedicated to ending World Hunger! Vegfam - Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals. FRAC - Consequences of Hunger - Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality. UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 1998 - "Malnutrition is largely a silent and invisible emergency, exacting a terrible toll on children and their families. The result of multiple causes, including a lack of food, common and preventable infections, inadequate care and unsafe water, it plays a role in more than half of the nearly 12 million deaths each year of children under five in developing countries, a proportion unmatched since the Black Death ravaged Europe in the 14th century." Still Hungry - Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry. NomadNet - A collection of unorthodox views on aid and relief operations: Many articles suggest charities are partially to blame for hunger in Africa becasue they ignore evidence about hunger in order to fatten their coffers. Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center and non-profit think tank focusing on issues of hunger, food, poverty, agriculture, trade, and rural development, guided by the principle that food is a fundamental human right. Fidel Castro Speech - The Cuban president presents appalling statistics on the hunger of children and other issues at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998. Action Against Hunger - USA - An international organization and recognized leader in combating hunger. Delivers emergency aid and longer-term assistance to people suffering from natural disaster or man-made crisis. Is it sustainable to spend this much on lipstick and pet food? - Hope Magazine suggests from U.N. world data that what people in U.S. spend on cosmetics and pets could more than feed the whole world. Food Dumping (or Aid) Maintains Poverty - This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at the disastrous effects of food aid to developing countries in non-emergency situations. Additional links, articles and research are provided, including links to other sections on the site that look at hunger with respect to population sizes and claims that genetically engineered food would solve world hunger. Hunger: Myths and Realities - Myth One: There is not enough food and not enough land. Untrue: Measured globally, there is enough to feed everyone. For example there is enough grain being produced today to provide everybody in the world with enough protein and about 3000 calories a day, which is what the average American consumes. The Hunger Site - An ad-driven "charity" site (notably a dot com, not dot org) devoted to alleviating hunger. Site owners ask you to hit this site once a day to donate food to starving countries. Environmental Literacy Council: Food and Hunger - Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants. Lacey Food Bank Program - This site describes one New Jersey community's attempt to help the hungry as well as to specify ways the entire community can be involved. RESULTS - Nonprofit, grassroots citizens's lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power. Congressional Hunger Center - A non-profit anti-hunger leadership training and a bi-partisan organization, serves as a center where the anti-hunger community can discuss creative solutions to end domestic and international hunger, located in Washington, DC.
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