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Food for 9 Billion: South Asia sneak preview
Check out these snaps from Bangladesh, where communities are girding for climate change, and India, where a grassroots movement is working to avert a water crisis.
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Egypt: Growing pains
This story also appeared on America Public Media’s Marketplace. Anger over food prices helped contribute to the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak. Through the story of one migrant family, we explore how displaced farmers, angry about agricultural policies that favor “crony capitalists,” now struggle to put food on the table. Kai Ryssdal: The second phase […]
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Good morning, Bangladesh
Greetings from one of the world’s most “climate vulnerable” countries as it prepares for a future of storms, floods, droughts, salty soils and other unpleasantness.
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Round two for Egypt
Today’s feature on American Public Media’s Marketplace looks at the politics of food as Egyptians head back to the polls.
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Powerful reporting from the Horn of Africa
Some really impressive work by the Fault Lines team at Al Jazeera on the political and historical roots of the crisis in the Horn of Africa. See this 24-minute program about the origins of the famine in Somalia and this one about drought, food prices and climate change in Kenya. Each links the current problems to political decisions in the […]
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Egypt: Food for a revolution
Tonight on PBS NewsHour, Sandy Tolan and Charlotte Buchen dig for the roots of what some have called “the revolution of the hungry.”
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Egypt: Food for a revolution
Anger over food prices helped contribute to the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak. Through the story of one migrant family, we explore how displaced farmers, angry about agricultural policies that favor “crony capitalists,” now struggle to put food on the table. This story is the beginning of a new series: “Food for 9 Billion,” […]
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On Marketplace today: Famine versus drought
Reporter Scott Tong compares the situation in Somalia, where thousands have died of starvation, with Ethiopia, which is enduring the same drought without major loss of life.
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The population elephant
Listeners point out that there’s more to feeding the world than growing more food. To which we say: Stay tuned.