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In-depth: A global food crisis

GLOBAL: Health affected

Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Half of rural households have cut their number of meals
NAIROBI, 16 March 2012 (IRIN) -

SWAZILAND: Diets downsized by financial crisis

MADAGASCAR: Stunted children means stunted lives

INDONESIA: No rice, no way

FOOD: Hunger dips but not by much

GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one

AFGHANISTAN: Food aid not reaching most vulnerable women, children

CONGO: Thousands to benefit in food and nutrition project

SOMALIA: Agencies alarmed by child malnutrition

SOMALIA: Three teaspoons a day to keep starvation at bay?

COTE D'IVOIRE: “Alarming” malnutrition in north

ETHIOPIA: Battling malnutrition in the south

SRI LANKA: Children stunted, wasted, underweight - government health survey

GLOBAL: High food prices put pressure on HIV programmes

PAKISTAN: Animal feed price hikes threaten livelihoods, nutrition

PHILIPPINES: Food crisis threatening nutrition of young children

AFGHANISTAN: Food prices fuelling sex work in north?

ETHIOPIA: Malnutrition increasing in southern regions

ETHIOPIA: Rising food prices hit HIV-positive people

PAKISTAN: Fears of worsening child malnutrition

TANZANIA: Malnutrition dogs Pemba's fishing communities

ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition hits children hardest

KENYA: HIV-positive people feeling the pinch of high food prices

AFGHANISTAN: New survey to measure food-price hunger

PHILIPPINES: Nutrition gains at risk

LIBERIA: Nutritional “crisis” in Monrovia
East African Food Crisis
A global food crisis
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Will there be a global food crisis in 2013?
Power to the people!
Price volatility - causes and consequences
High prices do not mean a bigger supply
Rice is king, but at a price
How to fix a "broken" supply system
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UGANDA: Christine Amony, “Finding food for the whole family is becoming a nightmare”
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 PHILIPPINES: Rice shortage hits poor
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