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China faces serious challenges on grain supply: premier
SHANGHAI (AFP) - China faces serious challenges in ensuring it will have enough grain to feed its population in the decades to come, with urbanisation and climate change two major problems, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
People:Wen Jiabao Hu Jintao Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(AFP)
2008-07-03
Calif officials: Bureaucracy failed abused boy, 5
LOS ANGELES - The little boy's body was a study in pain. He was covered in cigarette burns, including to his genitals. He couldn't fully open his hand because it had been burned on a stove. His tooth was broken with a nerve exposed. And he had been made to sit in his own urine and feces, authorities say.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-06-20
Global quandary: How to feed a growing planet
In the lakeside capital of the central African country of Burundi , 40-year-old Lucie Nahimana on Thursday fed her family of six "black flour," a low-quality cassava root that many here have resorted to eating because they can't afford anything else.
Nations:Philippines Burundi Somalia Afghanistan Cameroon Nigeria People:Kofi Annan Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(McClatchy)
2008-06-19
Hunger in Ethiopia now spreading to adults
Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.
Nations:Somalia Nigeria Kenya Ethiopia Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(AP)
2008-06-09
Poor diet undermines health of northern Afghans
Lunch at Gada Mohammad's single-room mud-brick house in Afghanistan's far north is the same as most other meals: dry bread washed down with tea.
Nations:Afghanistan Tajikistan
2008-04-26
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