Niger: Could You Feed Your Family on 64 Cents a Day?

[unhappycamper]

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Niger: Could You Feed Your Family on 64 Cents a Day?
crisispictures.org

(IRIN) After the news cameras are switched off and the world’s journalists leave Niger, what is almost certain is that next season the poor will again suffer the pain of hunger and the weakest children will die. The humanitarian crisis this season is as much an issue of the affordability of food as availability.

Let me repeat that: Niger has plenty of food. The problem is poverty.

Total grain production last year - though dipping below a five year average - was 22 percent more than the 2000/2001 season, a year in which “there was no major food security crisis”, noted a FEWS NET report.

What has changed this year is that in some parts of a southern belt sweeping from the border with Burkina Faso to Chad, food prices are critically high, while the value of livestock has crashed.

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[Swamp Rat]

1. kick!!!

:cry:

[babylonsister]

2. Nom! We complain all the time about our troubles,

but ours are nothing compared to theirs. Kick, and thanks, uhc!

[katinmn]

3. This is a crisis situation that doesn't have to be!

[DistressedAmerican]

4. Kicker!

[kliljedahl]

5. Kicked and nominated

With everything else going on, let's not let this fall under the radar. If we really wanted to help with our country's image in the world, this is where we need to start.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[lonestarnot]

6. This is a very sad situation that we could be sending are war chest

dollars to instead of destroying a country that had no WMD and was no threat to us or our "freedom."

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. We have some doctors without borders at my hospital

I'll find out what their next mission is. Would happily
give up a vacation for this important work.

Doctors without Borders is a noble cause.

[sandnsea]

8. Entire Sahel belt

It's a combination of drought, locust and the "free market". 3,000,000 people, 800,0000 children in Niger. Three other countries are near this situation as well.

Links to NGO's and articles:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1303

[lonestarnot]

9. About what we will have soon...

[dxstone]

10. What a sad fucking world we live in...

Kicked and nominated.
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