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Left: Patricia Wolff, founder and executive director of Meds and Food for Kids. (Photo: MFK.) Right: Paul Farmer, founder and executive director of Partners in Health. (Photo: <a href="http://flic.kr/p/csKJu9">Nyaya Health, Flickr</a>.)

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Devil take the hindmost? Haiti peanut battle puts NGOs head to head

When antipoverty nonprofits compete, it's not always clear who will lose more: the one whose business is threatened, or the people both nonprofits set out to serve.

65 million people benefit from U.S. food aid, but key changes to the 2012 Farm Bill could help even more while saving taxpayer dollars. Photo: Kyla Springer.

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As Congress debates, a new report says U.S. food aid is going to waste

A new report is claiming that unnecessary regulations imposed by the U.S. Farm Bill are wasting nearly half a billion dollars per year in taxpayer dollars that could be used to save millions of lives.

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Five things to know about the 7 billionth human

Much needed food aid being distributed in Sukkur, Pakistan. Photo: <a href= "http://www.flickr.com/photos/14214150@N02/4973650367/"> Rob Holden, UK Department for International Development (Flickr)</a>

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The politics of hunger: Good governance effective at fighting malnutrition

Malnutrition, which prevents children from reaching their physical and intellectual potential, is falling. The most significant cause? It's becoming a politically important issue in its own right.

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The Tricky Business of Feeding Oneself on a Dollar a Day

Over one billion people live on less than one dollar a day, according to the U.N. But what can you actually buy with a dollar?

Could the meat you eat one day be born in this? Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29388462@N06/5434154393/sizes/m/in/photostream/">chesbayprogram (flickr)</a>

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Test-Tube Meat: Could it Feed the World One Day?

Historically, meat has been for the world’s rich. Lab-grown meat could change that forever—while helping solve the environmental and resource dilemmas of the future.

A group of men plant crops in Kenya. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2628528653/">World Bank Photo Collection (flickr)</a>

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U.S. Promotes Agricultural Sustainability in Africa

Earlier this week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reiterated the United States' commitment to reduce Africa's dependence on food aid and promote agricultural sustainability while in Nairobi, Kenya. Vilsack said the U.S.

A Mercy Corps beneficiaries show off their garden in Niger. Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps

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One Billion Are Hungry

Last week the UN announced that the number of people suffering from hunger now totals one billion worldwide.

By the summer of 2008, the price of rice had increased five times from the average price in 2005. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Responding to the Global Food Crisis

The following post is from One Table, a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.

Organic tea leaves in Darjeeling, India. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps.

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A New Green Revolution in India?

Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of farmers in rural India have transitioned organic farming. But can these families grow enough to compete with conventional agriculture?

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Join Tina Fey and Mercy Corps to End World Hunger

The worldwide hunger epidemic is real. Rising costs of fuel and food, persistent conflicts, disease and global warming mean that the crisis will get worse before it gets better.

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Food Crisis Called 'Silent Tsunami'

For months we have been following increasingly urgent reports about food scarcity, rising prices and vulnerable populations.

Food distribution line. Photo: L. Boscardi/UNHCR

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UN Plans to Ration Food Aid

The UN is preparing plans to ration its food aid to people in need if new donations don't provide more money soon, according to an article in the Financial Times this week.

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