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CHS kicks off Harvest to Hunger campaign in Brush
2016-03-15 18:03:42| Agriculture - Topix.net
CHS employees gather at the finale of the Brush 'Harvest for Hunger' kickoff event recently, with proceeds in hand to be donated to the Food Bank of the Rockies, for their efforts in helping to stamp out hunger in the area. During the inaugural Brush event for the 2016 series, CHS managed to raise just over $8,000 towards the cause.
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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear
2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...
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Tackle Hidden Hunger by Improving Food Systems
2016-02-29 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Nutrition is complex and multi-dimensional. Micronutrient deficiencies or "hidden hunger' are much more widespread than chronic undernourishment or hunger, understood as inadequate dietary energy. Micronutrient deficiencies refer to the lack of essential vitamins, minerals and other substances required over the human life cycle by the body in small amounts. Micronutrient undernutrition has long-term effects on health, learning ability and productivity, leading to high social and public costs, reduced...
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Food Incentive Programs take the Frontline on the Fight Against Hunger
2016-02-09 21:13:58| National Farmers Union
By Katie Fisher, government relations intern, National Farmers Union Last week was a busy week for the House Committee on Agriculture as they had two subcommittee meetings in two days. Wednesday morning, the Subcommittee on Nutrition, led by Chairwoman Jackie Walorski, met to discuss food incentive programs and how they can be improved. Five panelists
Youth with a hunger to advance the pork business
2016-02-05 22:25:00| National Hog Farmer
In a few minutes with the National Junior Swine Association recipients of The Maschhoffs Pork Production scholarship Morgan Cox, Danika Miller, Lexi Marek, Jackson Johnson and Caleb Grohmann one can see an openness to accept change and a drive to advance the U.S. pork business beyond conceivable limits. read more
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