REFILE-History repeats as war pushes Sudanese to Kenya
NAIROBI, May 18 (AlertNet) - When Nyajany Kutil left Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp to return home to South Sudan in 2008, she did not imagine that war would force her back across the border again so soon.
Africa must end hunger to sustain growth: U.N.
NAIROBI, May 15 (AlertNet) - Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to sustain its economic boom, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on Tuesday.
Africa must end hunger to sustain growth - U.N.
NAIROBI, May 15 (AlertNet) - Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to sustain its economic boom, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on Tuesday.
How do you count the world's hungry people?
LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - Two years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: "1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I'm mad as hell."
Can an African "green revolution" help feed the world?
SABA SABA, Kenya, May 2 (AlertNet) - Her bare feet coated with mud, Sabena Gitau trudged down the rain-sodden hillside to her banana plantation, machete in hand.
"Green bullet" innovations aim to feed world of 9 billion
LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks.
Barefoot lawyers bring food security to India's tribes
KHAMMAM, India, May 2 (AlertNet) - It was a deal struck almost 40 years ago by a poor, illiterate Indian farmer, driven by desperation after a drought wiped out his crops and left his family close to starvation.
FEATURE-'Green bullet' innovations aim to feed world of 9 billion
* Experts look to myriad "green bullets" to boost production
FEATURE-Barefoot lawyers bring food security to India's tribes
KHAMMAM, India, May 2 (AlertNet) - It was a deal struck almost 40 years ago by a poor, illiterate Indian farmer, driven by desperation after a drought wiped out his crops and left his family close to starvation.
FEATURE-How do you count the world's hungry people?
LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - Two years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: "1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I'm mad as hell."
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