Category Archives: Food Crisis

Article: U.S. Tries to Ease `State of Calamity'

The following excerpt is from a November 26, 2009 article from the Miami Herald.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The U.S. has begun delivering food to Guatemalans suffering through a long drought. By EZRA FIESER Special to The Miami Herald EL MOJON CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala — Nine-year-old Lide Ramirez and her [...]

Article: Hunger's Perfect Storm is Back

This excerpt is from an article published on September 22, 2009 by The HuffingtonPost, and written by Josette Sheeran.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The perfect storm for the world’s most vulnerable is back — and with a vengeance. Now bad weather and soaring food prices have been joined by [...]