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Dear Readers, please take a moment to let the following number really sink in: almost 2 billion people on this planet suffer from hunger or malnutrition. That amounts to around 30 per cent of the global population.

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Table of Contents Issue #10Featured Articles #10

Half Empty - The Food Crisis in America

A complex theme in easily comprehensible illustrations: A comic about America's food crisis.

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“We Need a New Planetary Civil Society!”

The problem lies not in food production, but in access to food. We are letting them starve - but we are not the perpetrators says Jean Ziegler.

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Small Farmers’ Potential

How smallholder agriculture can contribute to reducing hunger and malnutrition.

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Lands of the Arab Spring

The “land question” is raging across the Middle East and North Africa Region.

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A Global Thirst

How water is driving foreign investment in farmland.

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Overfished

Why we need a radical shift towards sustainable fishing.

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Interview: Homegrown Gourmet Fungi

We talk about a decorative solution for home gardening with mushboo-founder Matt Unger.

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Interview: Fresh in the Trash

The way we consume affects food security in other countries.

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Chapters #10

Introduction

Food is life. But millions on this planet are starving. How can we save our kind? By producing more? Wasting less? Here’s some food for thought.

... for Justice

Speculation on food futures by investment banks contributes to rising prices – and thereby directly prevents poor people from getting their daily meals.

... for Resources

Water is growing scarce, fertile ground is too: the resource catastrophe is well underway. Land and water grabs jeopardise the livelihoods of many.

... for Alternatives

Things need to change. What might that be? Here are some good ideas: about gardens in the sky, mushrooms in the living room, and fish tanks in your backyard.

... for Responsibility

How much work and resources does it take to produce one kilo of vegetables? A lot. But so much food is grown just to be wasted down the line.

 

Beyond the magazine

“We can’t just leave solutions to the politicians“

Conference on Religion’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Broken Toilets

Emily Madsen and Samyuktha Varma have created an international magazine intended to change reporting on development work.

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Challenges for the Media – from Information to Participation

Just a blink of the eye in world history, the 40-year existence of the Internet has been revolutionary.

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Interview: Development Aid is Not All Plain Sailing

5 questions to Andris Piebalgs

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Top 16 Articles from last 4 Issues

Hope Is Contagious

How would you feel leaving home for ever? For Danny Ramadan, a gay Syrian, the decision to flee was never his. It was made for him based on who he loved.

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Detlef Puhl is Senior Advisor to the NATO Deputy Secretary General on newly emerging security threats. From 2008 to 2011 he was Vice Director of the "Délégation aux Affaires ... »

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Michael Vollmann is head of the Fellowship and Community Impact Development Group (CIDG) After writing his thesis in connection with Ashoka on "Social Entrepreneurship in ... »

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