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The food we eat – because it often lacks the proper nutrients – is killing us. This year alone over 2 million people will die because they are obese, while over 2 million children will die from malnutrition.

That’s just insane, and something has to be done.

In just a matter of weeks, world leaders – including the US – are meeting to tackle the issue of food.  Let’s make sure they don’t just talk, but they act.

It’s time for a global food revolution. It’s time to save millions of lives. Add your name now.

 

    Dear World Leaders,

    Please make measurable commitments to reduce chronic malnutrition for 25 million kids by 2016 so they can reach their full potential.

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      The Fight

      Every year, poor nutrition claims the lives of more than 2.4 million children. That’s more than one in three of all child deaths. It’s time to give this issue the attention it deserves.

      Learn more about the fight.
      • 44 million
        people pushed into extreme poverty due to food price increases in 2010-2011
      • 165 million
        children under the age of five were stunted from chronic malnutrition in 2011
      • 2.3 million
        children died in 2011 in part due to malnutrition
      7 out of 10
      In 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in a country that doesn't produce enough food for its population
      1.3 billion
      people
      1.3 billion people make less than $1.25 per day, two-thirds of them in rural areas

      Ask our world leaders to end chronic malnutrition for 25 million kids.

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      Live Webcast: The Chicago Council’s Global Food Security 2013 Symposium

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      Live Webcast: The Chicago Council’s Global Food Security 2013 Symposium

      If you’re looking to deepen your knowledge of global agriculture development and US agriculture policy, tune into the Chicago Council’s Global Food Security 2013 Symposium, a day-long event on food and nutrition security, right from your desk. The event will be aired in a live webcast, so that means that all day, you’ll have access to

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      Here’s an idea: Give small farmers the confidence their food will sell

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      Here’s an idea: Give small farmers the confidence their food will sell

      We can make food aid more sustainable not by giving away Western food, but by working with local farmers and creating a market for their crops in the region. ONE Agriculture Fellow Roger Thurow reports.  Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another

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      Me, my daughter, and our 1000-day journey

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      Me, my daughter, and our 1000-day journey

      This piece, by 1,000 Days Executive Director Lucy Martinez Sullivan, was originally posted on Future Fortified’s blog. In my job as the executive director of 1,000 Days, I am an advocate for mothers and children around the world. But it wasn’t until I learned I was pregnant last year and then finally welcomed my first

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      The Progress

      We know that investing in agriculture is one of the best ways to fight poverty. Proven nutrition solutions – like healthy foods for infants – are praised as some of the “best buys” in development. Now we just need to put them into practice – and fight to save one million lives each year.

      Learn more about the progress.
      • 60%
        of people live on less than $2 a day, down from 80% in 1980
      • 1 billion
        people have more to eat because of investments between 1970 and 1990
      • 2x
        Growth in agriculture is twice as effective at reducing poverty as growth in other sectors
      88 %
      Today, 88% of people in the world have enough food to eat
      30 million
      children saved
      Investments in agriculture saved 30 million children between 1970 and 1990

      Ask our world leaders to end chronic malnutrition for 25 million kids.

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