The Full Monty by GMO Pundit: Do you know what hunger really is?

Notes on Hunger.

The Millennium Project of the United Nations and its Hunger Related Goals

The Millennium Project of the United Nations is a source of background information about the project and links to documents and related Web sites. The Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 UN member nations on 18 September 2000, outlines the signatory countries' commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Millennium Project Web site summarizes the goals. The World Bank's Millennium Development Goals Web site, provides information about the goals and the partner organizations. The United Nations Development Agency provides a resource page on MDGs. The Development Gateway offers a special feature on the MDGs with a section on food access and availability.

The Earth Institute of Columbia University provides information about the Hunger Task Force of the Millennium Project. The Millennium Project Web site summarizes target two of MDG goal one and provides information on the Hunger Task Force and its members. The World Bank's Millennium Development Goals Web site provides information about the goal to end malnutrition and hunger. J. D. Sachs makes available in PDF format a February 2004 lecture titled "Meeting the Hunger Millennium Development Goal." The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs makes available a November 2003 paper by T. W. Pogge titled "The first UN Millennium Development Goal." The presentations from the 5 July 2004 seminar titled "Innovative approaches to meeting the hunger MDG in Africa" are made available by the Millennium Project.

FORMAT OF LINKS is as follows:

SOURCE

#USEFUL DOCUMENT AT THAT SOURCE

The Hunger Links Collection:

Development Gateway

# food security.

HungerWeb Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University.

# collection of links

Bread for the World

# links to other anti-hunger and poverty organizations

BBC Broadcasting
# African hunger Crisis

Last Updated: Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 02:32 GMT
Africa's hunger - a systemic crisis
By Martin Plaut
BBC Africa analyst

The number of Africans needing food aid has doubled in a decade
More than half of Africa is now in need of urgent food assistance.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning that 27 sub-Saharan countries now need help.

But what appear as isolated disasters brought about by drought or conflict in countries like Somalia, Malawi, Niger, Kenya and Zimbabwe are - in reality - systemic problems.

It is African agriculture itself that is in crisis, and according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, this has left 200 million people malnourished.

It is particularly striking that the FAO highlights political problems such as civil strife, refugee movements and returnees in 15 of the 27 countries it declares in need of urgent assistance. By comparison drought is only cited in 12 out of 27 countries.

The implication is clear - Africa's years of wars, coups and civil strife are responsible for more hunger than the natural problems that befall it.

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