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Global Food Crisis: Fast, Pray, Repent, Act


	Food Crisis around the world Learn more about the Global Food Crisis by exploring these topics: Developing Countries \| Cameroon \| Haiti \| United States \| Democratic Republic of Congo \| Sudan Developing countries India's Farming 'Revolution' Heading For Collapse News story from NPR about food security in India. Brazilian Agribusiness Rejects Bayer's Transgenic Rice Food crisis becomes acute in mid and far western Nepal [Republica — Kathmandu, Nepal] NEPALGUNJ, May 13: Many rural parts in mid- and far-western Nepal are reeling under a food shortage because many of the food depots that were destroyed ... Horn of Africa to face biggest crisis in a decade: United Nations [Earthtimes (press release) — London, United Kingdom] Geneva — The Horn of Africa, and Somalia in particular, will likely face the most severe drought and food crisis in a decade, top United Nations ... "Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis" by Peter Rosset; from May/June 2009 NACLA with permission from the author. During the first months of 2007, Mexicans took to the streets to protest a sudden doubling of the price of corn tortillas, the mainstay of the national diet. Africa: 'Food Crisis Threatens Promises to the Poor,' AllAfrica.com, Washington, D.C. Ghana: Issahden Muhammed Alhassan — Prescribed starvation diet: IMF prevents protection of rice farmers in Ghana. Download the bulletin insert. Honduras: María Marcos Rivera and Eduardo Benitez — "We grew hungry so that others could get rich" (the rice crisis in Honduras). Download the bulletin insert. Honduras: Ines Fuentes and Luis Aguilar — Free trade means growing rice is almost mission impossible in Honduras. India: Bujjamma Reddy — Debt led to her husband's suicide. Download the bulletin insert. Jamaica: Leissa Carey — "We'd go to bed eating salt and water." Download the bulletin insert. “Africa Must Produce or Perish” from NigeriaWorld by Philip Emeagwali Statement of people’s organizations on high food prices: time for a comprehensive shift in economic policy, declaration by grassroots and peasants organizations; Monlar, Sri Lanka; April 2008 Namibia: Localised Food Production Answer to Rising Prices, "The growing of a carrot is an act of liberation," says Ottilié Abrahams from behind her office desk at the Jacob Marengo Secondary School in Katutura. Mexican Community Leader Wins Environmental Prize for Tackling Climate Change, Industrial Ag and Migration, Jesus Leon Santos’ work as an environmental leader is inspirational and cutting-edge. It represents the kinds of sustainability solutions we need today: place-based, community-focused, grassroots and globally minded. Cameroon Trade Justice: Fair Fruit. Watch the two-minute video from Cameroon about how trade agreements affect farmers there, and how fair trade in fruit holds the promise of community prosperity. Community Grain Banks: A food sovereignty program in Cameroon. Watch the six-minute video from Cameroon. Villagers are building community cereal banks to achieve greater self-reliance through grain storage capacity. Read “World hunger: not a matter of fate” by Mr. Samuel Nguiffo, Center for the Environment and Development (CED), a member organization of PC(USA) Joining Hand’s Program/RELUFA Network in Cameroon. Read the Letter from Denis Kumbo, project officer of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon. Food security, sovereignty found through cereal banks in Northern Cameroon, by Lionel Derencourt Haiti 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened? The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots by Bill Quigley, HLLN's News, Views, Essays and Reflections, April 21, 2008 Haitian Food Riots Unnerving But Not Surprising, Americas Program Special Report by Mark Schuller, April 25, 2008, International Relations Center Worldwide Haiti Web site and links Annotated slide show by Mark Hare on the work of Papaye Peasants Movement (MPP) Haiti’s Food and Health Crises Haiti’s Crushing Debt Burden Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason for Further Delays United States and the Food Crisis When the Cupboard is Bare — The New York Times The Impact of Rising Food Costs on Low-Income Americans No Rescue for the Hungry — The Washington Post Cargill: Key Player in Global Food Crisis Democratic Republic of Congo Prayers for the Democratic Republic of Congo PC(USA) at Work in Democratic Republic of Congo Congo Mission Network On Promoting a Free, Fair, and Democratic Election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 217th General Assembly (2006) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) UN News Centre — News Focus: Democratic Republic of Congo United Nations Country Fact Sheet United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MUNOC) MUNOC and the Elections Democratic Republic of Congo Crisis — Review by the European Union Commission at the United Nations Sudan Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells Food — New York Times article in “The Food Chain” series Sudan Advocacy Action Forum — A Christian grassroots effort to advocate for a just and lasting peace in Sudan Darfur Fact Sheet Overview of Hunger in Southern Sudan Sudan Net — Offers current news from and about Sudan Prayers for Sudan


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