The Vessel BRAVE COMMANDER Brings Ukrainian Grain to Starving Horn of Africa

Touch the Soil News #1834 (Feature Photo – Vessel Brave Commander– Courtesy Vessel Finder.com) Successful Farming news brings the story of ships bearing Ukrainian grain successfully reaching the Horn of Africa. This is the first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Russian invasion to reach the drought stricken nation of Ethiopia. Carrying 23,000 metric…

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Why Hunger?

Touch the Soil News #1714  (Feature Photo – Fresh Vegetables – CCA SA 4.0 International, Tila Monto)  WCBS News Radio brings us the story of urban farmers in New York pitching in to give food to food banks and work with local nonprofits to fight hunger. You can read the story here: https://www.radio.com/wcbs880/news/local/whyhunger-urban-farms-distribute-food-to-bronx-communities

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Covid – Synonymous with Quadrupling Hunger in Latin America

Touch the Soil News #1647 (Feature Photo – Latin America – By Heraldry – Own work,, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7185231) Latin America, a continent of 20 nations and 642 million people, is being economically disrupted. Global Food Security Officials are warning of dramatic increases in hunger and a lack of access to adequate nutrition. Protests…

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Is A Worse Hunger Pandemic Unfolding from Covid Economic Shutdowns?

Touch the Soil News #1634 (Feature Photo – Greenhouse – By W.carter – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62134626) The World Food Programme – a United Nations Agency that fights starvation – is ringing the alarm bells of and unfolding food pandemic. Economic shutdowns and closed seaports are set to double acute hunger by the end of…

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