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Ending hunger

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Deadly hunger once again stalks Niger. It affects people like Abdoulai and his family in the dry, sandblasted village of Toudoun Jaka. The rain never came here last year; the land cracked and Abdoulai’s fields produced less than a single bag of millet, not enough for his children for a week.

Soaring food costs hitting poor from Algeria to India

19/01/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia, Development, Food, India, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Millions of people around the world are struggling to cope with rising food prices say Caritas staff. “The price rises in India usually affect the poorest people, but they are now so steep that the middle class is hit hard as well,” said Sunil Simon, in charge of natural resource management at Caritas India. The ...

Education in Haiti – Food for thought

21/12/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Food, Haiti, Latin America, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The afternoon of the Haiti earthquake many children died or were left trapped in collapsed schools. An estimated 90 per cent of schools in Port-au-Prince were damaged or destroyed, leaving around two million children without access to education. Literacy rates in Haiti were already low compared to global standards before the earthquake. The Haitian authorities ...

World Food Day: One in six people go hungry

14/10/2010 Advocacy, Agriculture, Development, Food, Malnutrition, SDG by Caritas Communications

“We urgently need to concentrate on rehabilitation and prevention to stop more crises in the next years”, said Raymond Younoussi Yoro, Secretary General of Caritas Niger. Niger was hit by a major food crisis this year that affected around 60% of the population. It’s one of the many countries around the world where starvation is ...

Hunger in Niger: Food for a famished nation

28/07/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Nigeriens ran out of food months ago, now the situation is desperate. Half of the people in this landlocked West African nation now don’t have enough to eat. People are eating leaves and livestock feed in order to survive. While hunger in Niger is nothing new, this year is particularly bad. Rains failed last year ...

Niger: Hunger Pains A Nation

28/07/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

By Lane Hartill, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Habsu Boubacar has got used to being hungry. The burning stomach, the blurred vision, the joint pain: Habsu has learned how to work through aches, how to force herself to go on. Growing up in Toudoun Jaka, a sand-blasted village full of skeletal cattle and bone-thin dogs that ...

1 in 6 go hungry

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Australia, Development, Europe, Food, Italy, Malnutrition, Oceania, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

World hunger reached an historic high in 2009 with over a billion people going without enough food every day. Malnutrition increased by 13 percent in Asia, 8 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean and 6 percent in Africa.

Food for thought in Zimbabwe

23/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

The acute humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe continued in 2009, with half of the population reliant on food aid to survive.

Hunger spreading in West Africa’s Sahel

31/03/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition, Mauritania by Caritas Communications

Over 800,000 children are at risk as malnutrition increases across Niger, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania in West Africa. We asked Fr. Isidore Ouédraogo, the Secretary General of Caritas Burkina Faso (OCADES) about the food crisis.

On the menu for children in Haiti

12/03/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Food, Haiti, Latin America, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The risks to children following Haiti’s earthquake include not only trafficking but also hunger. Up to 24 percent of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition in Haiti. In poorer areas, this figure is even greater. One of Caritas’ priorities in the earthquake’s aftermath has been to supply regular food to the survivors. So far, ...