After more than 100 Gazans died trying to access food, will the world finally address their starvation?
At least half a million Gazans are currently believed to be at direct risk of starvation
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Opinion Gazans are starving. Airdrops of aid could help change that
Aerial food drops over Gaza could help prevent a famine while bypassing security and distribution challenges
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Fast Forward Uganda’s Jews Are Down To One Meal A Day Amid Drought
(JTA) — Uganda’s 2,000 Jews have long maintained a modest existence. They live in the east of the country in a hilly, rural area that lacks paved roads, consistent electricity and running water. But this year, the situation for Uganda’s Jewish community, called the Abayudaya, has worsened. Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East are…
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Opinion Trump Acts Like A Political Pro On Climate Change — And That Should Scare Us
There’s a strange, largely unnoticed inconsistency in the Trump administration’s approach to making and remaking policy. Don’t get me wrong — inconsistency has been the rule at nearly every juncture in the chaotic first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. From health care to immigration, from NATO to Australia to the Middle East, measures have been…
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Opinion Make Food Aid Work for All
This past fall, Congress allowed the U.S. Farm Bill — the legislation that governs the vast majority of our country’s food and agriculture policies, including international food aid — to expire. If our elected leaders refuse to move the process forward, funding for emergency food aid will run out in 2013. This doesn’t only jeopardize…
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Opinion American Food Policy Harms Neediest
Food plays a central and sensory role in our lives and serves as a map of our history. Meals, recipes and the acts of eating and drinking teach us about who we are, where we live and where we come from. But at a time of the year when apples and squash flood our tables…
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The Schmooze Bono Says to Think About Africa This Sukkot
Bono would like Sukkot observers enjoying their bountiful meals in the sukkah to take a moment from their celebration to think about famine in Africa. ONE, the grassroots advocacy organization that the U2 musician founded to fight poverty and preventable disease in Africa, has put out a special Sukkot 2011 guide to educate people on…
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