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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen being interviewed by Stella Paul for IPSTV at the sidelines of the 38th session of FAO Conference in Rome, June 15 2013. Santi Mayor/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:42:03 -0700

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Poland wastes at least 8.9 million tonnes of food every year. Credit: Claudia Ciobanu/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:14:37 -0700

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Volunteers at the food bank in Clay Cross in Britain. Credit: Lara Stanley/IPS.

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sun, 05 May 2013 01:44:58 -0700

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Hunger Rises in Great Britain

CLAY CROSS, Britain, May 5 - The social consequences of austerity economics have been most visible in Europe’s southern periphery. In the UK, the coalition government has brought in sharp cutbacks in welfare state provision in the name of dealing with the financial crisis. Their impact is becoming increasingly visible.
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Farmers in Indonesia’s West Java province follow instructions on the government’s “integrated planting calendar”. Credit: Kanis Dursin/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:45:35 -0700

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Putting Food Security on the Calendar

By Kanis Dursin

JAKARTA, March 27, 2013 (IPS)--Last October, at the beginning of Indonesia’s rainy season, a 37-year-old farmer named Herinurdin took a leap of faith. Instead of planting corn in his entire 1.3-hectare rainfed farm in the Sukabumi town of West Java, as his family had done for generations, he sowed 1,600 square metres worth of rice instead.
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Ndomi Magareth, sows bean seeds on her small piece of land close to Plantation de Haut Penja (PHP), to which the Cameroonian government leased 4,500 hectares of land to grow bananas. Credit: Monde Kingsley Nfor/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:56:27 -0700

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DOUALA, Cameroon, Mar 14 2013 (IPS) - The fruit farmers in Njombe, a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon, learned a life lesson about “making lemonade out of lemons” – or rather “dried fruit out of fruit” when their land was taken from them by the government and leased to an international farming company.
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Pic 4 – A lack of education and training condemn many street children to a life of poverty. Few are able to escape the cycle of low wages for unskilled work. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:22 -0800

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Poverty Plagues Children in Bangladesh

By Naimul Haq

DHAKA, January 2, 2013 (IPS) –Nearly 50 percent of Bangladesh’s primary school students drop out before they complete grade 5, as crushing poverty drives them into the informal employment sector.
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Pic 5 - Lata Rani Das (15) participates in an electronics class at the vocational school of the Underprivileged Children’s Educational Programme (UCEP). Lata will be ensured a job when she completes the 18-month training course. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:18 -0800

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Pic 7 – A beneficiary of the EU-funded training programme works hard to acquire skills that will guarantee him a decent job. Managed by Save The Children, this project has helped graduates move from low-income to middle-income status. Credit: Naimul Haq/I

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:19 -0800

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Pic 6 – Thousands of boys and girls have benefitted from the training programme, which offers them a way out of a cycle of poverty. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:18 -0800

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Pic 10 - Nazia Ulfa, a student with the training programme, with her brothers in the Mirpur slum. The programme has brought relief to thousands of urban slum-dwellers like Nazia. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:21 -0800

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Pic 2 – Twelve-year-old Maruf lives in a shanty in Nayanagar, close to a Dhaka suburb. He works at a nearby car workshop, fixing luxury car engines for about six dollars a month. He shares this meagre income with his family of four. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:17 -0800

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Poverty Plagues Children in Bangladesh
By Naimul Haq

DHAKA, January 2, 2013 (IPS) –Nearly 50 percent of Bangladesh’s primary school students drop out before they complete grade 5, as crushing poverty drives them into the informal employment sector.
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Pic 9 - Lata Rani Das standing at the door of her one-room home in a city slum in Mirpur, Dhaka. Besides attending classes, she also earns a small salary doing embroidery work for reputed fashion houses. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:20 -0800

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Pic 3 – Sixteen-year-old Parul, hailing from the Batara slum, is paid about 15 dollars a month for her work in a garment factory. Also in the picture are her younger brothers and a cousin. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:17 -0800

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Pic 8 - Enthusiastic students at UCEP line up to enter classes. Most of these working students belong to families hit by extreme poverty and live in slums around the city, indicating that Bangladesh has a long way to go before achieving MDG 1.

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:20 -0800

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Pic 1 - Jharna, a 13-year-old girl living in the Batara slum in a Dhaka suburb, makes about 44 cents a day cutting used condensed milk cans. She never went to school and is the second of five children. Her family moved to Dhaka about nine years ago to esc

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:56:22 -0800

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Poverty Plagues Children in Bangladesh
By Naimul Haq

DHAKA, January 2, 2013 (IPS) –Nearly 50 percent of Bangladesh’s primary school students drop out before they complete grade 5, as crushing poverty drives them into the informal employment sector.
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Volunteer working at a food bank in Málaga. Credit: Inés Benítez/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:31:26 -0800

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Salvaging Waste Food for the Hungry in Spain

By Inés Benítez

MÁLAGA, Spain, Dec 21 (IPS) - A recurring question in Spain is how to ensure that surplus agricultural products reach those most in need. One response is citizen initiatives to protest the waste of food and to advocate efficient management along the full length of the food chain.

It was not the army that took over; people took over the army. Credit: Mohammed Omer/IPS.

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:06:30 -0700

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UPDATE: People Power Pushes Mubarak Out.
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CAIRO, Feb 11, 2011 (IPS) - Several hundred thousand protesters massed in Cairo's central Tahrir Square exploded into joy Friday, after Vice-President Omar Suleiman made the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had resigned as president of Egypt after three decades in office..
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Yemeni protesters in Sanaa carrying pictures of arrested men. Credit: Yazeed Kamaldien/IPS.

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:07:05 -0700

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YEMEN: Protest Goes Out With the Candles.
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SANAA, Feb 15, 2011 (IPS) - Many are baffled that Yemens anti-government protests have so far failed to deliver revolutionary regime change. But a complex context here demands a different kind of political dialogue with power..
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Tripoli residents celebrate Eid, and political victory. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS.

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:06:42 -0700

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LIBYA: Eid Comes With Political Celebration.
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TRIPOLI, Sep 1, 2011 (IPS) - "Gaddafi renamed this one as the âGreen Squareâ but we have brought back its ancient name, âMartyrs squareâ," Asma Mohamed, Tripoli resident tells IPS. Eid celebrations are being followed by the anniversary Thursday of Muammar Gaddafi coming to power 42 years ago. Celebrations of one kind have mixed with celebrations of another..
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Freedom tea for sale as Che Guevara makes an appearance. Yazeed Kamaldien/IPS

nobody@flickr.com (IPS Inter Press Service) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:06:31 -0700

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YEMEN: Selling Freedom Tea at Change Square.
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SANAA, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) - Popcorn, peanuts, protest posters, tons of tea and the ubiquitous Yemeni flag dominate the anti-government sit-in demonstration outside Sana'a University as entrepreneurs have sought to meet the demands of protesters..
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