Time.com: US Food Aid Lands In North Korea

A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the communist nation agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people

First U.S. ship carrying food to North Korea arrives

A U.S. ship arrived at a North Korean port carrying 38,000 tons of food to be distributed to the millions of people living in hunger, U.N. sources said Sunday.

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Time.com: Hunger in Ethiopia Spreading to Adults

Aid groups say the older victims suggest there is an escalation in the crisis in Ethiopia, a country that drew international attention in 1984 when a famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million people

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says

Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.

Billion dollars pledged for food crisis

World leaders have made "extraordinary" commitments to short-term food crisis solutions but more work is needed on long-term solutions, the head of the United Nations food agency said Thursday.

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Red Cross: Somalia facing severe famine

Somalia is facing life-threatening food and water shortages leaving millions at risk for starvation, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.

Traffic snarls are latest bump in Argentine farm crisis

Disagreements between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes flared up Wednesday as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic.

U.N. chief: $20B a year to end food crisis

Countries and donors must spend as much as $20 billion a year if the world is to end the food crisis, the head of the United Nations said Wednesday.

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Ahmadinejad, Mugabe blame West for food crisis

Two controversial world leaders known for their anti-western rhetoric took advantage of a U.N. summit to point the finger of blame for the current food crisis at western nations.

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Time.com: UN Sets Out Food Crisis Measures

World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders

Time.com: US Food Aid Lands In North Korea

A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the communist nation agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people

First U.S. ship carrying food to North Korea arrives

A U.S. ship arrived at a North Korean port carrying 38,000 tons of food to be distributed to the millions of people living in hunger, U.N. sources said Sunday.

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Time.com: Hunger in Ethiopia Spreading to Adults

Aid groups say the older victims suggest there is an escalation in the crisis in Ethiopia, a country that drew international attention in 1984 when a famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million people

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says

Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.

Billion dollars pledged for food crisis

World leaders have made "extraordinary" commitments to short-term food crisis solutions but more work is needed on long-term solutions, the head of the United Nations food agency said Thursday.

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Red Cross: Somalia facing severe famine

Somalia is facing life-threatening food and water shortages leaving millions at risk for starvation, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.

Traffic snarls are latest bump in Argentine farm crisis

Disagreements between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes flared up Wednesday as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic.

U.N. chief: $20B a year to end food crisis

Countries and donors must spend as much as $20 billion a year if the world is to end the food crisis, the head of the United Nations said Wednesday.

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Ahmadinejad, Mugabe blame West for food crisis

Two controversial world leaders known for their anti-western rhetoric took advantage of a U.N. summit to point the finger of blame for the current food crisis at western nations.

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Time.com: UN Sets Out Food Crisis Measures

World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders

World Bank pledges $1.2 billion to battle food crisis

The World Bank is making $1.2 billion available in grants and loans to combat the global food crisis, including $200 million for those most at risk in the world's poorest countries.

U.N.: Poor countries could pay 40 percent more for food

The world's poorest countries could pay 40 percent more for food this year than they did last year because of rising prices, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.

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Food costs strain efforts to save starving Ethiopian children

A year of drought and soaring food prices has threatened the lives of tens of thousands of Ethiopian children.

U.S. sends aid through private groups in Myanmar

After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.

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Time.com: India to America: Eat Less, Fatties

Analysis: Indians are outraged over President Bush's comment about the cause of soaring food prices, but politicians and pundits should stop pointing fingers

Time.com: The Next Great North Korean Famine

A catastrophe is poised to strike the most isolated and dangerous country in the world, spurred by the global food crisis and Kim Jong Il's pride

Bush wants $770 million more global food aid

U.S. President George W. Bush urged Congress on Thursday to approve $770 million in new global food aid to be made available beginning in October.

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Time.com: 'Stop Biofuels to Fight World Hunger'

Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during a world food crisis

U.N. forms task force to ease food crisis

The United Nations is establishing a task force to address the global food crisis, which is "increasingly resulting in social tension," the world body said Tuesday.

Time.com: UN Sets Up Food Crisis Task Force

The United Nations plans to establish a task force to tackle the global food crisis to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said

Displaced Kenya farmers add to food woes

Kennedy Ombuki is a farmer. In normal times, he grows corn, maize, potatoes and peas on the green slopes near Molo. "They were export peas," he says proudly.

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Time.com: Hunger 'Tsunami' Sweeping Nations

Various proposed remedies to the global food crisis may not solve the problem, even as demand and - food prices - continue to climb

Time.com: Food Aid Agency Feels the Crunch

As world food prices soar, leaving millions unable to afford staples they lived on just one year ago, the stopgap measure against extreme hunger also finds itself short of food

Aid group to cut food ration to millions

World Vision, one of the world's largest humanitarian organizations, announced Tuesday that it cannot feed 1.5 million of the 7.5 million people it fed last year and made an urgent appeal for international donors to step in.

Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.

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U.S. to give $200M in food aid

U.S. President George W. Bush has ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help countries where the soaring cost of basic food has spurred riots and instability.

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Al Qaeda declares 'failure and defeat' for U.S. troops in Iraq

Marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, al Qaeda's media arm released an audio recording, purportedly from the group's second-in-command, saying U.S. troops there have failed.

Attacks force U.N. to cut Darfur food relief

Attacks on its humanitarian convoys are forcing the U.N. World Food Programme to cut the rations it provides to millions of hungry people in Sudan's war-stricken Darfur region by about half, the agency said Thursday.

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British PM: Bush owed 'a huge debt of gratitude'

President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed a range of topics at the White House on Thursday including terrorism, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran and economic issues, Bush told reporters afterward.

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North Korea at risk of famine, says U.N.

North Korea may be on the brink of another famine as a result of last year's devastating floods, the worldwide increase in food prices, and a malnourished population, the United Nations warned on Thursday.

U.N.: N. Korea faces food crisis

North Korea faces a looming food crisis due to floods last year, the U.N. food agency said.

All about: Rural communities

It is said that nowhere else on earth will the impacts of climate change be felt more acutely than in the developing world.

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Time.com: Food Price Hikes Roil Pakistan

Musharraf's party lost the election because of the price of flour and food. It's the foremost problem facing the next government

Time.com: Israel to Ease Gaza Blockade

Israel agreed Monday to diesel fuel and medicine into Gaza on a one-time basis, easing the blockade imposed because of a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel

Time.com: After the Oil Crisis, a Food Crisis?

A new U.N. report says the soaring price of oil may be leading to food shortages and hunger in the developing world

Report: N. Korea floods killed 600

Some of the worst flooding to hit North Korea in decades has killed at least 600 people, double the previous known toll, the official news agency said at the weekend.

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U.S., South Korea pledge relief to North

North Korea's neighbors and international aid agencies sought Thursday to help the impoverished country cope with floods that have decimated large swaths of farmland, endangering citizens already struggling with food shortages.

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Time.com: CARE Says No Thanks to US Food Aid

Fortune: PROBLEM NO. 2: HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION

THE BACKGROUND More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the ...

Fortune: India the Superpower? Think again

Plug in the words "India" and "superpower" into an Internet search engine and it's happy to oblige - with 1.3 million hits. I confess that I did not check each one, but I suspect that almost all of these entries date from the last couple of years.

Business 2.0: Problem no. 3: Hunger and malnutrition

The background: More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

Food aid arrives in Indonesia

Emergency food aid is arriving in two hard-hit districts of central Java, two days after a large earthquake flattened communities in this heavily populated Indonesian region.

U.S. lawmakers arrested at Sudanese Embassy protest

Five Democratic members of Congress were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy and led away in plastic handcuffs Friday to protest the atrocities in the Darfur region.

Kenyan family's cry: 'God has cursed us'

I've covered three droughts in the last six months in Africa.

The face of famine

"Aminu's dead." Charlie, my producer, tells me when he gets back from the intensive-care ward. Aminu was 4. Yesterday he seemed better. Yesterday was a long time ago.

Mugabe, Chavez slam U.S. at U.N. event

The leaders of Zimbabwe and Venezuela on Monday denounced President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "unholy men," and blamed the United States and other developed countries for world hunger, pollution and war.

N Korea: U.S. reactors 'essential'

North Korea wants the United States to provide light-water nuclear reactors "as soon as possible" to demonstrate Pyongyang's right to peaceful nuclear acitivities, North Korea's deputy foreign minister said Thursday.

U.S., Russia reject N Korea demand

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Russian counterpart have rejected a North Korean statement that Pyongyang would begin dismantling its nuclear program only if the United States provided a light-water reactor for civilian power.

N. Korea agrees to give up nuclear program

Nearly three years after ordering U.N. nuclear inspectors out of the country, North Korea Monday agreed to give up its entire nuclear program, including weapons, a joint statement from six-party nuclear arms talks in Beijing said.

North Korea demands reactor first

North Korea said Tuesday it would begin dismantling its nuclear program only if the United States provides a light-water reactor for civilian power.

'Hungry season' preys on Niger's youngest

In a small village in southern Niger, hundreds of mothers gather with their hungry children hoping somebody will help them.

Niger donations rise but still fall short

After months of weak response, donations to assist famine-stricken Niger have increased to $13 million in the past two weeks -- still far short of what is needed, U.N. officials said.

U.N. will begin food airlifts to Niger

The United Nations on Thursday will begin airlifting 44 tons of emergency food rations to famine-stricken Niger in West Africa, where 80,000 people are starving and more than a million others are at risk, officials said.

U.N. appeals for Kenya food aid

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) appealed Tuesday for $6.7 million to feed nearly a quarter of a million Sudanese and Somali refugees living in camps in Kenya.

U.S. aid to N. Korea 'not enough'

The United States has said it would provide 50,000 tonnes of food aid to North Korea, but the World Food Program said it was not enough to meet the "desperate" need of the people.

Gupta: Dehydration main concern after tube's removal

Terri Schiavo's case moves to federal court Monday after her parents petitioned to have the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted. The tube was removed Friday.

Food shortage still grips North

As North Korea threatens to bolster its nuclear arsenal, millions of its undernourished citizens are barely subsisting because of severe food shortages, according to the U.N. food agency.

U.N.: 800,000 need food in Aceh

The United Nations says the number of people needing food aid will soar to nearly 800,000 in Aceh following the December 26 quake and tsunami.

Manna from heaven in Darfur

A little boy waits as though expecting manna from heaven -- which is what this might just as well be.

Starvation stalks youngest in Darfur

Hamdi Ismail is one and a half years old, but weighs only 12 pounds.

Doctors battle malnutrition in Sudan

Dr. Jonathan Spector is at war with malnutrition -- Darfur's biggest killer.

Interactive map charts world hunger

The United Nations World Food Programme has added longitude and latitude to its hunger awareness campaign with the publication of an interactive map plotting the location of the world's hungriest people.

Battle to get aid to Bangladesh

Flood-stricken Bangladeshis will receive their first major overseas food aid deliveries on Wednesday after the worst rains in six years killed over 600 and displaced millions of people.

Adoptive parents indicted in child starvation case

A New Jersey couple accused of starving their four adopted boys were indicted by a grand jury Wednesday.

N. Korea: Train blast cost $350m

North Korea's official news agency says damage caused by last week's massive train explosion will come to about $356 million.

U.S. aid for North Korea homeless

The White House will give the Red Cross $100,000 to help those left homeless in North Korea after last week's train explosion.

U.N. warns on N. Korea food

The U. N. emergency food agency has renewed its call for urgent food aid for North Korea, warning that 1.5 million people will go hungry over the next six weeks.

N. Korea food shortage worsens

More than 6.4 million already undernourished North Koreans face even more drastic food shortages in the next few months, the U.N. food agency warns.

Aid reaches northern Uganda

International aid workers have found the break in the security situation they have been waiting for to enter a war-torn region of northern Uganda.