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Rankin: It's time to fix the world's broken food system | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...od-system-kenya-drought-famine food & hunger sustainability
shared by Simon Scoones on 16 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • here has been a drought since 2005.
  • While severe drought has undoubtedly led to the huge scale of the disaster, this crisis has been caused by people and policies, as much as by weather patterns. Climate change, rising food prices, lack of investment in small-scale farming and the grabbing of land being used to grow food for local people by speculative investors has resulted in communities just not being able to grow enough food to survive.
  • Drought is inevitable but famine is manmade
  • Simon Scoones on 16 Oct 11
     
    A very good article on the causes of famine in Kenya at the moment. See highlighted bits. 
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The night I ate out...of a bin - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...i-ate-outof-a-bin-2370923.html food & hunger
shared by Ameya Badwe on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Ameya Badwe on 15 Oct 11
     
    We throw out £17bn of food each year. Is it all inedible? Charlie Cooper joins the 'freegans' who live on little else
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