Nations losing world hunger fight, report says
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Rome- The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million and rising, according to a UN report Wednesday.
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By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Utahns lost their food stamps last month under a new policy that  anti-hunger advocates say they would have opposed had they known about it.    That's fewer than 2 percent of the 54,750 households on food stamps in  any given month.
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The UN's food agency says that protectionism and a prolonged fall in prices are threatening the livelihoods of  2.5 billion people.
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth, a UN report says.
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A third of children aged under five in Myanmar are suffering from malnutrition because of the failure of the military regime to reform the country, the World Food Program (WFP) said.
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The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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At least 43m children around the world are unable to go to school because of armed conflicts, a new report says.
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PRETORIA -- More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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About 360,000 needy people in Sudan's Darfur region are out of reach of the World Food Program because of fighting, officials said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday that the plight of hundreds of millions of hungry people around the world has been overshadowed by the crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.
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An estimated 820 million people around the world do not get enough to eat, despite delivery of 2.5 million tons of American food a year worth more than $1 billion, the U.S. Office of Food for Peace told Congress on Thursday.
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Food donations to the world's hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations.
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Environmental degradation is affecting health, nutrition and the natural world, says a flagship UN report.
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More than 12 million American families either didn't have enough food or worried about someone in the family going hungry last year, the Agriculture Department said Friday.