Africa: Ending World Hunger Costs Less Than 1% of Military Spending: [UN News] Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year -- less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPLRV2 #EndHunger #FoodSecurity #UNWFP #MilitarySpending #Africa
Central Africa: More Than 50 Million in West and Central Africa At Risk of Hunger: [UN News] The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa are facing record hunger as conflict, displacement, economic hardship and repeated extreme weather push the region towards a major crisis. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKjDPw #HungerCrisis #FoodSecurity #CentralAfrica #WestAfrica #UNWFP

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"Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem."

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Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel to see an innovative land reco...

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Great video on the Great Green Wall in Senegal. Fucking love this stuff.

https://kottke.org/24/03/how-the-great-green-wall-is-holding-back-the-sahara-desert

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How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert

The Great Green Wall being built in Africa to halt the southern progress of the Sahara Desert is a favorite public works project

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#UNWFP “With only ten percent of necessary food supplies entering #Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, the Strip now faces a massive food gap and widespread hunger as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance…”

“[…] Fuel shortages have triggered a crippling halt in bread production across all 130 bakeries in Gaza. Bread, a staple food for people in Gaza, is scarce or non-existent.”

https://www.wfp.org/news/gaza-faces-widespread-hunger-food-systems-collapse-warns-wfp

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Gaza faces widespread hunger as food systems collapse, warns WFP | World Food Programme

GAZA — With only ten percent of necessary food supplies entering Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, the Strip now faces a massive food gap and widespread hunger as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.

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