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China, India Once Food Aid Recipients, Now Food Donors

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Posted by geri   
Monday, 18 September 2006
malawi_farmIn the same year it stopped receiving global food aid, China emerged as the world's third largest food donor. According to a report by the World Food Programme (WFP) released late last month, China donated 577,000 tons of food in 2005, mainly to neighbor North Korea, placing it only behind the United States and the European Union on the list of global food donors.

"With 1.3 billion mouths to feed and a land mass largely unsuited to agriculture (only around 14 per cent of the territory comprises arable land), China's achievements in vanquishing hunger are all the more impressive," says Pallavi Aiyar in The Hindu's online edition...
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Utah Man Spreads Gift of Books Around the World

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Monday, 18 September 2006
ken_dayhle_booksA man from Holladay, Utah has made it his passion to give away books, almost a half a million so far, to school children who have no libraries. Ken Deyhle has been shipping text and storybooks to 28 countries around the world with his Deyhle Foundation ever since he retired from the insurance business eight years ago. Kids now have brand new books -- in Spanish and English -- thanks to Ken's contribution, with its retail value of over $5 million. (video for Windows users at KSL.com)
 

Five Former Soviet Republics Swear Off Nuclear Weapons

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Posted by geri   
Saturday, 16 September 2006
Last week, five former Soviet republics committed themselves to never acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, or testing nuclear weapons by signing a treaty to create a Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone. The nonpartisan, independent Arms Control Association (ACA) welcomed the move as a positive step forward in reinforcing a beleaguered nuclear nonproliferation regime and advancing the goal of nuclear disarmament...
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Gates, Rockefeller Charities Take Aim at African Hunger

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Friday, 15 September 2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation have teamed up to tackle hunger in Africa, starting with a $150 million endowment. The alliance will focus on efforts to "improve the productivity of small farms in a bid to move tens of millions of people out of extreme poverty and to significantly reduce hunger". (The Seattle Times)
 

Soros Invests $50M to Lift African Villages From Poverty

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Friday, 15 September 2006
mozambiqueUS financier George Soros is to invest $50 million in a development project that aims to show how targeted investment can end extreme poverty in African villages. His donation is being matched by other donors to bring in $100 million for The Millennium Villages program which involves small, focused investment in community-driven projects in the health, education and agriculture sectors...
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