Word: hungered
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...black magic. Fighting between the government and Cobra has displaced tens of thousands, and Mealer teams up with a pastor whose experience of war only makes his faith burn brighter. The pastor acts as Mealer's translator through the refugee camps where people are dying from disease and hunger. At one camp, they observe a boy picking termites...
...gorge, since living in the wild means never knowing when the next famine is going to strike. Best to load up on calories when you can - even if that famine never comes. "We're not only programmed to eat a lot," says Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, "but to prefer foods that are high in calories." What's more, the better we got at producing food, the easier it became. If you're a settler, you eat a lot of buffalo in part because you need a lot of buffalo - at least after burning so many...
...Many more deaths are likely to occur not with the crack of gunfire but from grinding hunger, experts warn. Scrambling to avert that grim scenario, aid officials and political leaders from about 40 countries converged this week at the Rome headquarters of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to craft a rescue plan for the world's food supplies. By all accounts, they have arrived late to the crisis. The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) calls this emergency a "silent tsunami" that could have dire consequences for more than 100 million of the world's poor...
...produce enough food to sustain itself. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the world's leaders in Rome this week that farmers would need to grow 50% more crops by 2030 in order to avert a massive global shortage of food. "There is nothing more degrading than hunger, especially when it is man-made," Ban said...
...Pain in Africa The million or so people living in Kibera, the Kenyan slum, are what the WFP calls "the new face of hunger." They are victims of soaring prices, not just of food but also of more costly staples such as fuel, charcoal, cooking oil and kerosene. Residents can almost feel themselves becoming poorer by the day. The sensation is particularly cruel because Kibera's stores have adequate supplies, but the tomatoes lie rotting on the shelves alongside untouched bags of rice and cereal: they are now too expensive for locals to buy and cook. "We are not eating...