Sentences with phrase «hunger crisis»

We were reading these menus with a very contemporary eye through eyes of a major hunger crisis.

The subsequent hunger crisis wiped out more than 70 percent of all animal species.

It brings to light the worldwide hunger crisis and is a way for the design community to respond to that issue on a local level.

A global hunger crisis has grown so severe that a group of international relief agencies, including Connecticut - based Save the Children, are doing something they've never done before.

The coalition said its figures revealed a «hidden hunger crisis» across the UK amid forecasts of record numbers of people using Trussell Trust food banks.

Tim Pilkington, CEO of World Vision UK, said: «Millions of people are facing a potentially catastrophic hunger crisis.

But it is far more cost - effective to invest aid in conflict prevention — in countries like Somalia and Mali, both of which suffered from hunger crises last year — than it is to pay the cost of responding to violent conflict and civil war.

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food - exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

According to the United Nations, if the ongoing mega-droughts afflicting not only North America but most of the world's most productive agricultural regions continue for one more year, there will be a «global hunger crisis».

Adding to the hunger crisis are changes taking place at the federal and state levels.

Ifan accused the Government of «relying» on food banks and it urged ministers to accept their «responsibilities» for Britain's «hunger crisis».

Christian Aid has warned that East Africa's hunger crisis will reach catastrophic proportions and spread wider if the global community doesn't intervene.

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In emergency situations, for example, responding in East Africa to the drought and hunger crisis, we work with other NGOs and those coordinating emergency relief responses.

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.

When I'm trying to lose weight I can always count on a dish of green beans topped with this easy healthy fresh tomato salsa to get me through a hunger crisis when I needed an easy healthy zero points snack that will satisfy me.

At 9 a.m., Walmart workers, clergy, and supporters fast outside the estate of Alice Walton, whose family owns half of Walmart, as part of a national day of action to «demonstrate the hunger crisis for Walmart workers and their families that are struggling to put food on the table this holiday season,» and protest for a $ 15 - an - hour minim wage, 515 Park Ave., Manhattan.

«In other words, a hunger crisis is not solely an act of God.

«Food insecurity and the hunger crisis was much more widespread and posed a serious threat to national security and the economy,» says Matt Sharp, senior advocate for the California Food Policy Advocates, a public policy organization focused on antipoverty initiatives.

She shares two changes that would go far to lessen the hunger crisis — and explains how teachers can help spur those changes: (1) removing barriers so more students would take part in free or reduced - price school breakfast programs and (2) making families and communities aware of the existing summer meals programs funded by the Department of Agriculture that exist in many high - needs areas of the country.

DC Entertainment, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and Time Warner divisions, launched We Can Be Heroes — a giving campaign featuring the iconic Justice League super heroes — to raise awareness and funds to fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Research on the many factors that play a role in this hunger crisis and statistics about its effect helps to show how deep the issue goes.

Fortunately, the price of rice — a staple food for billions of poor people in Asia — has remained stable, so the high prices are not generally expected to create a hunger crisis.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in New York on July 28, 2015, has received criticism for putting on weight during the country's hunger crisis.