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Hunger

Fighting hunger

Rising food prices are putting the lives and livelihoods of millions at risk:

  • 1.02 billion people are starving and/or malnourished
  • Around 24,000 die daily of hunger-related causes

Around 2.7 billion people live on less than £1 a day. And have to spend up to 80 per cent of this income on food. The rising cost of basic foods (by as much as 300 per cent in some places) is pushing millions of families to the limit. Read more about the rise in food prices at UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation www.fao.org

How we fight hunger

One of DanChurchAid's core objectives is to fight hunger in poor countries. DanChurchAid works with food security and fights hunger by focusing on access, advocacy, empowerment and linking food security to our other programme work.

Read more on our food security programme and download DanChurchAid's programme policy "The right to food" here

The changing of the worlds climate is also intricately linked with hunger among the worlds poorest, thus we integrate working with climate change with fighting hunger. Read more

Where we fight hunger

We work with food security in the following countries

Africa:
Ethiopia
Malawi
Zambia
Sudan

Asia:
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India

Central America:
Guatemala
Honduras

Read more - Articles about Hunger


08.02.2010: Fighting for the forest
India’s forest cover accounts for a little over 20% of total land and is home to more than 8% of tribal population. More than 90% of them live below the poverty line, struggling for their basic survival. Read the testimonial by Ditabhai, a tribal living in the reserved forests of India on his life and struggle with rights. Read more...


04.02.2010: Counting the chickens...
The chickens of Mtoso village get more attention than the average Danish egg layer. The women of the village gladly perform a song of gratitude about how the chickens have changed their life, whenever there are visitors. Read more...


14.10.2009: Hunger has reached historical heights
Within the last four decades, the amount of people going hungry has reached historic heights. A new UN report shows, that more than a billion people worldwide are food insecure. Read more...


14.09.2009: Adopted son makes father proud
Taking in a 13-year-old orphan has turned out to be a true blessing for a poor family in Uganda. Read more...


02.03.2009: More people helped the poor
The result of DanChurchAid's Parish Collection 2009 was 16 million Danish kroner (2.715 million USD/2.147 million EUR), which is one million more than last years result.

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22.12.2008: Lacking food and vitamins
The majority of Malawi’s children are either malnourished or undernourished, some of them so badly, that they don’t live through their early years. The parents of the children most often are too poor to prevent it. Read more...


22.10.2008: Five fish per intercourse
By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves. Read more...


20.10.2008: Africa Commission policy notes
The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa. Read more...


02.09.2008: Returning to nothing
Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to Read more...


20.06.2008: Multimedia - Prepared for the next disaster
Farmers in Cambodias Kompong Speu province are working to make their villages more resilient to the recurring natural disasters, such as drought or floods, hitting the area as a result of changes in the climate. Meet them in our audioslideshows and videos. Read more...


17.06.2008: Climate on the agenda
The poor people in the development countries are the ones who must pay the biggest price for the climate changes even though it is largely our way of living in the rich countries which contributes the most to create the climate changes. Read more...


03.06.2008: Hunger on the agenda
Millions of poor people are in danger of being affected by hunger and famine as prices on food will remain on a high level during the next ten years. This is predicted in a new report ahead of the summit in Rome where the only item on the agenda is the global food crisis


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02.06.2008: Hunger must be on top of the global agenda
In light of the global climate changes one of the biggest challenges the world has to face in this century is to create food security for all human beings. Read more...


29.05.2008: Why did God shut down the sky over us?
Ethiopia is on the verge of a hunger disaster. In the Southern Oromiya region people are already suffering.
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05.05.2008: Humanitarian assistance
Accelerating climate changes, war, armed conflict, shrinking of humanitarian space, 9.9 million refugees and 24 million internally displaced. The environment where humanitarian action takes place is evolving rapidly and continuously, posing new challenges for the delivery of humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction and protection for affected communities.
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