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Hillary Clinton backs move to end hidden hunger

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has endorsed efforts by world food experts to improve coordination between agriculture, nutrition and health programmes. “This issue cuts to the core of a global crisis that demands action,” she said.

Published February 14, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged food security, india, malnutrition, yahoo

Global postcode lottery for school meals

Despite promises by G8 leaders to prioritise food security, the World Food Programme is in trouble with its budget for 2009. Cuts in school feeding programmes highlight the contrast with school meals provided in richer countries.

Published August 3, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged food security, global divide, malnutrition, UK
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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things