As a major crisis is unfolding in the Horn of Africa, the European Space Agency (ESA) is keeping tabs on the situation from orbit. The organization uses its satellites to track how more and more vegetation is destroyed daily, while precipitations stubbornly refuse to fall. Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti are th... |
22 July 2011
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Over the past few years, food prices have gone up nearly two-fold, and experts have been scrambling to explain the phenomenon. In a new analysis, they managed to identify the factors that led to this situation. Starvation is now running rampant all over the world. Scientists agree that global warming, diminishing wat... |
6 June 2011
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According to officials with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the 1 billion people that go to bed every night hungry are the product of economic inequalities and distribution problems, and not of lack of abundance. In other words, there are sufficient amounts of food on Earth to sustain the current popu... |
13 October 2010
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One of the hallmarks of capitalism is something proponents like to call a “free market.” Basically, this means that the market regulates itself based on supply and demand, and this approach to conducting business is usually cited as the most appropriate for most cases. However, it is extremely unfair, esp... |
16 February 2010
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Food experts agree that the way people and nations approach food needs to drastically change, if a global shortage is to be avoided over the coming decades. Although, statistically speaking, the world produces far more food than it needs, there are still billions of people who do not have access to it and starve to d... |
28 December 2008
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A man who calls himself an artist ties a dog to a wall inside an art gallery. No, you heard me correctly - we're not talking about the night janitor who caught the starving animal littering the front steps of the gallery and decided to vent a lifetime of frustration by pulling off a ridiculously cruel stunt. We&... |
31 March 2008
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