FOOD

We found 32 additional articles filed under Food. They're listed below, most recent first.

1. Sustainable and Abundant Life
   03/22/2013 -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast last October, flooding homes, train stations and even halting Wall Street trading, it shook more than buildings. Coming on the heels of summer wildfires, droughts that caused more than half of all U.S. counties to b...
2. Prayer Calendar Reflection: April 2013
   02/28/2013 -- The Prayer Calendar is a tool of advocacy. Advocacy allows us to be agents of transformation by calling us to change the systems.
3. Food and Hunger
   02/05/2013 -- While overnutrition and undernutrition seem to be polar opposites, they are both forms of malnutrition.
4. Hunger and Poverty
   02/05/2013 -- The main cause of hunger is poverty and lack of power to access nutritious food.
5. Grassroots International: Palestine
   12/17/2012 -- In the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, just outside of Ramallah, 30 women have used the power of honey to keep their communities – and their livelihoods – cohesive and resolute.
6. Land Grabbing
   12/07/2012 -- The large-scale acquisition of land traditionally used by local communities, “land grabbing,” has accelerated exponentially, resulting in record levels of hunger, displacement and environmental degradation.
7. The Right to Food
   12/07/2012 -- When the world can produce more than enough food to adequately feed the global population, it shames us all that hunger and malnutrition exist.
8. Nelly's Story
   12/07/2012 -- In a village in Zambia, Nelly and her family once depended exclusively on chemical fertilizers to produce the crops on their farm. As years went by, the quality of their soil degraded to a point that hunger and poverty took over the family’s already preca...
9. Introducing Food Justice
   11/14/2012 -- Hunger and poverty have a cyclical relationship.
10. The Impact of Food Prices on Peace and Security
    11/14/2012 -- The poorest households in the developing world spend up to 60 to 80% of their incomes on food.
11. Invisible Poverty
    10/01/2012 -- Poverty in Albemarle County, Va., is virtually invisible, but United Methodist Women members know that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
12. Responsively Yours: A Peek Into the Gender Gap
    06/01/2012 -- Women in general operate with a sort of enlightened self-interest, not selflessly, but in ways that take seriously our own needs, the needs of our families, our businesses and our communities, the people and places we know best.
13. The Global Land Grab
    05/01/2012 -- Around the world impoverished peoples are fighting a foreign rush for wealth and control that threatens to strip them of land, food and water.
14. Standing With the Poor
    03/09/2012 -- Neighborhood Center is strategically located to serve an ever-changing and diverse community in Camden, N.J.
15. That We May All Live Together
    03/08/2012 -- Three of the ten United Methodist Women supported-delegates to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations (CSW) attended the international meeting through the United Methodist Church partner, the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) in Japan.
16. United Methodist Women Explores Needs of Rural Women
    03/07/2012 -- United Methodist Women sponsored international participants who attended the first week of this year’s commission meeting, which began Feb. 27 and continues through March 9.
17. Ana Chã: Brazilian Landless Worker Emphasizes Health and Happiness for Rural Women
    03/02/2012 -- Ana Chã spoke to more than 100 people on Tuesday as part of the panel, “Voices of Rural Women,” co-sponsored by United Methodist Women and World Vision International, a side event of the Commission on the Status of Women.
18. Women's Division Statement to the Fifty-sixth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
    01/24/2012 -- Statement submitted by The United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries, Women’s Division, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to the Fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Stat...
19. Crisis in the Horn of Africa
    01/03/2012 -- Women confront hunger and violence in a drought-plagued region.
20. Rural Women Panels Raise Issues on Food Security, Violence Against Women
    11/01/2011 -- In observance of International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day, United Methodist Women co-organized two panel discussions highlighting issues important to rural women around the world at the Church Center for the United Nations, Oct. 14, 2011.
21. Poverty Issue Study Overview
    10/03/2011 -- Participants in the study will engage in deepening their understanding of the realities of poverty and be invited to commit to solidarity with the poor through accompaniment and advocacy.
22. International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day Event
    09/20/2011 -- On October 14, 2011, United Methodist Women and partners will host panel discussions on the role of rural women in food security and ending violence against women at the Church Center for the United Nations.
23. Malawi Women Battle Hunger
    07/08/2011 -- With little money, many Malawians go hungry despite a corn surplus.
24. Poverty in the Midst of American Prosperity
    06/02/2011 -- Impoverished Americans in cities and in the country continue to struggle to understand one another, yet the federal government makes no distinction when accessing who is impoverished. With the richest 10 percent of Americans holding two-thirds of the coun...
25. UPDATE: The Nation’s Budget: A Reflection of What We Value
    04/28/2011 -- Next month the U.S. Congress votes on whether to raise the debt ceiling. Let your representative know that you want the debt ceiling raised to protect important programs.
26. A Last Meal
    04/20/2011 -- When reflecting on the Last Supper and what's occurring in the world today, how many of our sisters and brothers are having their last meal due to the economy, poverty or unforeseen circumstances like natural disasters?
27. Helping Fulfill God's Promise
    04/09/2011 -- When I look at this community and the people who live here I am reminded of Ezekiel 36:8-16 when God promises the mountains that they will no longer be allowed to kill God's people.
28. God's New Creation
    03/22/2011 -- As God created heavens and earth very good in the beginning (Genesis 1:31), so God is renewing the heavens and earth for the people to rejoice. God will not destroy the earth to make another universe.
29. God in the Cloud
    03/20/2011 -- A cloud seems to sit over the barrio. It is just there, a cloud of poverty, a cloud of domestic violence, a cloud of drug and alcohol abuse, a cloud of illiteracy, a cloud of hunger—blotting out any reason for hope for generations.
30. Community Gardens
    03/01/2011 -- Creating or maintaining a community garden is a vital, new mission opportunity for United Methodist Women.
31. Women, Health and Safety
    11/17/2010 -- Urge your congressional representative to support and co-sponsor H.R. 5268, the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes while Maximizing Successes (MOMS) Act.
32. Love, Rice and Beans
    10/01/2010 -- United Methodist Women members from Westminster, Md., help with dinner and fix homes in the Dominican Republic.

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