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Fight the Famine, Feed the Future
Programs like Feed the Future can help end famine for good. MORE
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Fact sheet: What is Feed the Future?
The U.S. Feed the Future initiative is a groundbreaking strategy to make smart investments in farming, infrastructure, and training. MORE
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Breaking the cycle of crisis and boosting growth through African agriculture: A call to the U.S. Government for urgent action
Investments in agriculture can have a huge impact on many of the world's poorest people, particularly in Africa. MORE
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INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: Solving Somalia's Food Security Emergency
As a result of the current famine in Somalia, 30,000 children died between April and July 2011, and four million people throughout the country are food insecure, including three million in south Somalia. MORE
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ONE Launches Provocative PSA to Fight Famine in Horn of Africa
The anti-poverty advocacy group ONE today unveiled a new PSA titled "The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity" to spark a more urgent response to the growing famine in Somalia that has already killed more than 30,000 children in just 3 months. Featuring some of the biggest names from the worlds of entertainment, media and politics, the PSA is an effort to turn the media spotlight on the obscenity of tens of thousands of children dying of starvation in 2011. It is also part of a broader campaign by ONE to build support for longer-term strategies that will help end the cycle of famine once and for all.
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ONE Announces Commitment to Address Crisis in the Horn of Africa At the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
Today, the anti-poverty advocacy group ONE announced a new multi-year campaign to address the famine in Somalia and the wider crisis in the Horn of Africa. The commitment announcement was made at a press conference at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York, which brings together global leaders to develop and implement workable solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.
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The Millennium Challenge Account
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an innovative approach to foreign assistance that delivers substantial new resources to a carefully selected group of poor countries to support development and poverty reduction. MORE
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USAID, World Food Programme Join ONE Call on Growing Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Last night, anti-poverty advocacy group ONE hosted a conference call with USAID Administrator Raj Shah, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran, and Somali-Minnesotan Ali Ali to educate ONE members about the growing famine threatening the lives of 11.6 million men, women and children in the Horn of Africa, and how they can use their voices to raise awareness and take action. MORE
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Save 4 million children's lives in 5 years
In the spring of 2011, ONE launched a new childhood vaccines campaign to help save 4 million kids' lives in 5 years. The campaign specifically called for President Obama to help fund two proven new vaccines that would help stop pneumonia and diarrhea-two of the biggest killers of kids in poor countries. MORE
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ONE Statement on the House State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for FY2012
We believe the current bill could have harmful consequences on America's effective work in saving lives and lifting people out of extreme poverty. We look forward to working with both the House and Senate to restore funding in key global health and development accounts as the budget process moves forward. MORE