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UN food official: Donor flexibility is vital to crisis response
The World Food Programme is UN’s front-line agency in disaster and conflict areas. Its new director in the Horn of Africa, Valerie Guarnieri, says the European Union’s recent crisis response in sub-Saharan Africa should set a new standard for financing humanitarian action.
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A golden opportunity to combat global malnutrition
On the threshold of several prominent international meetings, there is no better time than this to boost resources for nutrition and to work together to tackle both the causes and symptoms of child malnutrition and stunting, writes British MP Stephen O’Brien.
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Mobilising against poverty, hunger and inequality
People are losing trust in their leaders. What the bottom half of humanity sees is a new apartheid that divides a global rich and predatory minority from the overwhelming majority’s growing poverty, joblessness and social inequality, writes Jay Naidoo.
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Belgian tennis star: ‘I was eating a lot of fast food’
Becoming disciplined to exercise and eat well was a learning curve for tennis champion Justine Henin, but she is helping to fight obesity by promoting healthy living and eating amongst young people, drawing on her personal experience and through her foundations.
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Poorer nations face an unwanted European import: obesity
SPECIAL REPORT / Developing nations that are struggling with food supply uncertainty and malnutrition increasingly face a health challenge that is all too well known in Europe: obesity.
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In Mali, a perilous push to vaccinate children
Braving minefields and sporadic fighting, health workers have carried out a campaign in recent days to vaccinate thousands of children in northern Mali against measles, polio and other deadly diseases.
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Swift move by EU helped ease nutrition crisis, UN official says
SPECIAL REPORT / Faced with a worsening drought and food crisis in Africa’s Sahel region last year, the United Nations got a sudden infusion of EU cash to provide nutritional help to 1.5 million pregnant women and children.
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EU plans new approach to tackle ‘worst form of poverty’
SPECIAL REPORT / The European Commission is calling for a more robust emphasis on the long-term nutritional needs of infants and mothers to address malnourishment, a leading cause of death in impoverished nations, a year after European auditors criticised the EU’s response to food insecurity in developing countries.
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Rising costs pose challenge for poor nations’ vaccinations
SPECIAL REPORT / Rising drug costs and supply uncertainty threaten efforts to achieve universal immunisation after decades of steady progress in vaccinating African infants against crippling and deadly diseases, health workers say.
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US plan for EU-style food aid policy seen as boost for farmers, nutrition
SPECIAL REPORT / The Obama administration is proposing a major overhaul of food aid that would for the first time put America’s overseas policy in line with European practices of providing cash and other alternatives to bulk shipments.
