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U.N. warns of South Sudan famine as donors pledge more aid
2014-05-20 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than a third of South Sudan's population, or 4 million people, will be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2014 as fighting rages in the world's newest country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. "We are losing time. Farmers should be planting their crops right now," United Nations' aid chief Valerie Amos told a donors' conference in Oslo. "If they don't, and if livestock herders are not able to migrate to grazing areas, people will run out of food." Clashes between rebels and government...
Africa famine: soaring food prices intensifying crisis, report warns
2014-05-20 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A volatile global food supply is deepening the humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa, the World Bank warns in a new report. Shortages and near-historic prices for staples such as corn, wheat and sugar have magnified the impact of the drought now ravaging the Horn of Africa, the Food Price Watch report said. "While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by prolonged droughts, especially in areas struggling with conflict and internal displacement such as Somalia, food prices...
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Somalia could face another famine due to delayed rains, insecurity
2014-05-05 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five in the country are currently suffering from acute malnourishment. "The month of May remains critical during which, if rains fail, combined with sustained...
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Feminizing Famine
2014-05-01 10:14:32| IT Services - Topix.net
Recently, I've been rereading parts of Cormac A' GrA da's Famine: A Short History.
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'Some Say World Will End in Fire:' Climate Panel Paints Mad Max World of Famine, Fire, War
2014-04-02 00:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: The poet Robert Frost wrote, "Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I`ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice." Well, we know the answer to his question, and he gets his first wish. It is fire, i.e., massive global warming, that threatens the world as we know it. The most [pdf] pressing...