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Food Security

26 Jun 2014

How can the world save children from stunting?

by Nathalie Jamois | posted in: African women, Food Security, Poverty in Africa | 0

According to Veronique Lorenzo, Head of Unit EuropeAid- European Commission all we have to do is educate women to secondary school level. Let me start from the beginning. A few days a go I stumbled upon this tweet and my … Read More

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Africa, Bio fuels, Educating girls, EuropeAid, food security, MDGs, Veronique Lorenzo
22 Oct 2013

The scandal of wasted food at Tesco

by Nathalie Jamois | posted in: Food Security | 0

Today I return to one of my favourite topics  FOOD. The availability of food is something I return to on this blog time and time again. I am often surprised and even shocked that whilst millions are going hungry some have so … Read More

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Africa, FOOD, Food waste, Tesco, Uganda, Waste & Resources Action Programme, WRAP
11 Apr 2011

Being food poor

by Ida Horner | posted in: 30 Day Blogging, Food distribution, Food Security | 0

We are at day 12 of the 30 day blog challenge and if you missed day 11 you can catch up here . Today’s challenge is about revisiting some old posts and bringing them into one post. This is something … Read More

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Africa, food security, Kampala, Senegal, Uganda, World food programme
26 Jan 2011

Food Shortages in Uganda?

by Ida Horner | posted in: Food distribution, Food Security, Poverty | 1

Food shortages have made headlines in the news recently. The debates appears to be split into 2 schools of thought. Says that with need to grow more food as the population grows it is likely that there will not be … Read More

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Africa, Food Aid, food security, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe
30 Mar 2010

Will Africa be the source of world food in years to come?

by Ida Horner | posted in: Food distribution, Food Security | 0

Yeah right! I can hear some say and you will probably be right after all we have all seen the headlines of starving children in Africa. Please bear with me whilst I explain. The world is changing in ways we … Read More

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Africa, BBC RADIO 4, food security, Ghana, land grab, Senegal, Tullow Oil
7 Jan 2010

Are you kidding me?

by Ida Horner | posted in: Food distribution, Food Security | 0

Happy New year to you all. We are very excited about the prospects the new year is due to bring and I will be telling you about those in later blog. Back to the title to today’s blog, before I … Read More

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Africa, Food Aid, food security, Kampala, Uganda
27 Aug 2009

Should Europe be taking fish from Senegal’s waters?

by Ida Horner | posted in: Development Policy, Food Security | 0

BBC 2 is currently running a series of documentaries that are looking at the FUTURE OF FOOD fronted by former Fair Trade patron George Alagiah both here in the UK and the rest of the world generally. The first episode … Read More

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Africa, BBC, Food Aid, food security, George Alagiah, Kenya
19 Aug 2009

Going Bananas

by Ida Horner | posted in: Food Security | 0

The debate about Hillary’s Clinton’s real reason for being in Africa continues. Some have argued that she has not done enough to address human rights abuse as well as worker’s rights. You will recall my recent post about this  and … Read More

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Africa, Banana Wilt, Extractive Industry, food security, GM crops, Hilary Clinton, Uganda
12 Jul 2009

An incredible journey by canadian peas

by Ida Horner | posted in: AID, Development Policy, Food Security, International Policy | 0

Listening to Obama’s speech yesterday reminded of my trip to Uganda last year. He urged Africa to stand up for herself specifically to come up with solutions to its problems. He told the audience that he would like to see … Read More

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Africa, Food Aid, food security, G8, L'Aquila Itlay, Obama, Uganda
10 Jul 2009

G8 leaders on Food Security for the developing world

by Ida Horner | posted in: Development Policy, Food Security, International Policy | 0

It is the final day of the G8 meeting in L’Aquila Italy. The issue for discussion as I understand it is help for African farmers and reduction in Food AID to Africa and the overall aim is bring about food … Read More

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Africa, Climate change, Food Aid, food security, G8, Italy

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