We developed this short video as a way of communicating an important message in a simple way – our food system is broken. We need to fix it. Our central issue today is not the global financial crisis but whether we can produce enough food for civilisation to survive when faced with a rising population, […]
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Matabo Mariti was diagnosed with HIV while pregnant in 2005. While Matabo and her son are both receiving treatment for the disease, food insecurity adds to the vulnerability of her family. See more at www.ifrc.org/silentdisasters
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Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/food-insecu… Increasing agricultural productivity doesn’t guarantee access to food for the hungry. The Pulitzer Center sees the urgency of uncovering causes of today’s food security issues, as our staff interviews two renown experts in the field. In this video, Danielle Nierenberg, a director of Nourishing the Planet project at Worldwatch Institute and Michael Kugelman,
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Urgent humanitarian assistance is needed in Namibia as the impact and effects of drought worsen, leaving people struggling to find food, suffering from malnutrition and selling their assets just to survive.
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The short animation explains what the Food Security Cluster is about: coordinating the food security response during a humanitarian crisis.
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Swiss Re believes that the “Partnering for food security” narrative can play a pivotal role in helping to build a more resilient society. To communicate this complex topic in an understandable way we have adopted an animated, story-telling approach. The film provides a taste of the challenges associated with food security, food safety, food waste…
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Why are some communities more vulnerable to hunger and famine? There are many reasons, which together add up to food insecurity, the world’s no.1 health risk. Watch this video from the British Red Cross Seeds of Change campaign to find out what food insecurity is, and what we can do about it.To find out more,
Food security plays vital role in improving the livelihood of people. It is one of the main sources of nutritional welfare, a guarantee of good health as well as a factor in reducing poverty. Improved food production along with increased incomes allows communities to reduce the impact of crises that could fall on them. The
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A Grantham Special Lecture by Professor Martin Parry, Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London Climate change could lead to hundreds of millions of people being at risk of hunger by the middle of this century. This is in addition to the billion or so currently at risk. Several new studies are
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Second episode on how Uganda Red Cross helped to tackle food insecurity. Uganda is affected by drought and the necessity to give trainings to people on how to reuse natural resources.
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