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		<title>Africa’s staple food cassava: turning toxic with cyanide due to carbon emissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cassava is touted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the savior of Africa, being a staple food of more than half a billion of the world&#8217;s poorest people. The crop augurs well in the continent because it is basically drought-resistant. But one of the most important foods on the planet is becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Food Day reminder: Recession + Food Insecurity = Worsening World Hunger</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/world-food-day-reminder-recession-food-insecurity-worsening-world-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developed countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic crisis worsening world hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic downturn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[skyrocketing food prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Summit on Food Security 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s poorest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s rural areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s small-scale farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worsening poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world&#8217;s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>70 percent more food needed by 2050 for projected 9.1 billion world population</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/70-percent-more-food-needed-by-2050-for-projected-9-1-billion-world-population/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/70-percent-more-food-needed-by-2050-for-projected-9-1-billion-world-population/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cereal grain production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cities of the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meat production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rise in demand for food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban congestion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world food demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world food production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Summit on Food Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s potential to feed itself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a forecast this week that ‘world food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be 9.1 billion people.’ The current world population is 6.8 billion, says the UN. According to FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem, “FAO is cautiously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Shortage and Hunger: Big Consumers Tipping the Balance of Supply (we don’t have to blame climate change for these)</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/food-shortage-and-hunger-big-consumers-tipping-the-balance-of-supply-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-blame-climate-change-for-these/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eating meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food crises]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high cost of agricultural inputs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imbalance in food supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increase in consumption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that hunger is what separates order and anarchy. Social peace is only possible when citizens get their basic needs. Failure to provide food may spark a revolution. Food shortage is largely due not on the failure of the land to produce food but on the fact that the cost of food (cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Recession: Main Threat in World Hunger</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/global-recession-main-threat-in-world-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access to food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline in disposable incomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline in remittances]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global cereal productions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic meltdown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[high food prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFAD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job layoffs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=16556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations agencies of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP), along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), published on Friday 19 June, the most recent estimates regarding hunger worldwide. While the statistics are alarming, the findings are really not surprising. These agencies declare that global malnutrition and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Malnutrition: One-sixth of Humanity</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/global-malnutrition-one-sixth-of-humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/global-malnutrition-one-sixth-of-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily energy expenditure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global malnutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger deaths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inadequate dietary intake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poorest households]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=16553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Malnutrition is described as a state of lack of food, characterized by an insufficient food intake to fill the needs for the daily energy expenditure of an individual. This condition leads to nutritional deficiencies. If allowed to be prolonged, this condition causes irreversible damage and, ultimately, death. The term which refers to an inadequate dietary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African poor farmers: victims of arable land purchases and leases by other countries</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/african-poor-farmers-victims-of-arable-land-purchases-and-leases-by-other-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/african-poor-farmers-victims-of-arable-land-purchases-and-leases-by-other-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arable land purchases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[International investors continue to cast their sights on farmlands, especially the best ones, in the African continent. These arable lands constitute the livelihood of local people who are likely to lose access, but African governments pay little attention to them. This phenomenon was analyzed in detail for the first time by experts from the International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The overall trend of rural migration brings hunger in the cities</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-overall-trend-of-rural-migration-brings-hunger-in-the-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-overall-trend-of-rural-migration-brings-hunger-in-the-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban malnutrition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=11359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It will eventually be a world of cities. The planet is expected to have 5.3 billion urban residents by 2050, according to forecasts by the UN. That’s 2 billion more than what the planet has today. In developing countries, 5 million new people migrate to cities every month, swelling urban populations. Many are fleeing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Farming: solving the twin problems of urban hunger and rural migration</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/city-farming-solving-the-twin-problems-of-urban-hunger-and-rural-migration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration to cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urbanization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=11331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a report from the Food for Cities Program of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it says, “The riots of hunger in the cities of Haiti, in particular, have served to draw attention to the importance of urban poverty in the world food crisis.” Urban food chains should be studied differently from their [...]]]></description>
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