AFRICA:  Food for 12 Billion. So Why Did 854 Million Go Without?
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GENEVA, Jun 29 (IPS) - "As you are suffering from over-consumption, I  am suffering from under-consumption. We need to strike a  balance," said Mary Wahu Kaara from the Kenya Debt Relief  Network with reference to the North and the South.
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Failures in U.N. management of the Iraq oil-for-food program may have permitted excess payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to governments and companies, according to 55 internal audits of the humanitarian program. The excess payments were made even as then-President Saddam Hussein was stealing billions from the program.
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More than 300,000 children in Nigeria could die between now and 2014 if the level of vitamin A in their food is not increased, according to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) received by AFP.
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The Bush administration is more than $400 million short in its plan to send emergency food aid to developing countries, leaving 9 million people at risk of going hungry, a coalition of aid groups said on Friday.
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Darfur was about 10,000, blaming malnutrition and disease. He said the figure of 70,000 did not take into account deaths from violence.
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In the Darfur region of western Sudan, nearly 10,000 people per month have lost their lives from malnutrition and disease adding up to 70,000 deaths since the crisis started in February of 2003.
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By ANGELA DOWDEN  IF you're worried about the world around you, then you may already have started to eat fresh, locally produced food whenever it's possible.   Yet around 70 per cent of the food we eat in Britain is still imported, according to the Soil Association.
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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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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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How an isolated African region became a barometer of tastes and trends in other parts of the world.
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- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up for the most critical stage yet of its operation to deliver food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. As the rainy season ...
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Europeâs dinner tables are increasingly supplied by global fishing fleets, which are depleting the worldâs oceans to feed ravenous consumers.
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Obesity is out of control with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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Dramatic rises in international food prices are threatening millions of people in poor countries, the UN warns.
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Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.
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By Victoria Sekitoleko  According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, more than 250 million people are directly affected by desertification. In addition, some one billion people in more than 100 countries are at risk.
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As many as 122 species have disappeared since 1980, and 1,900 are in danger of becoming extinct.