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    <title>Institute Notes: A Dialogue on Overcoming Hunger and Poverty</title>
    
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    <updated>2009-10-24T11:14:18-04:00</updated>
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        <title>From 2000-2007, hunger was creeping into the middle class</title>
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        <published>2009-10-24T11:14:18-04:00</published>
        <updated>2009-10-24T11:15:19-04:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>todd post</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Food Prices" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Hunger" />
        
        


    <content type="html">The Economic Research Service of USDA just came out with an analysis of food spending in the US from 2000-2007, and the findings are quite...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>More than a Billion Hungry</title>
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        <published>2009-10-19T10:18:54-04:00</published>
        <updated>2009-10-20T07:51:17-04:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>todd post</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Food Insecurity" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Hunger" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="U.S. Development Assistance" />
        
        


    <content type="html">The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN came out with new numbers late last week on the state of global food insecurity, and...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Day 4 - Food and Medicine are Just the Start</title>
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        <published>2009-09-28T19:11:50-04:00</published>
        <updated>2009-09-28T19:11:50-04:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Eric Munoz</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Africa" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Agriculture" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Food Aid" />
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    <content type="html">Our arrival in Burkina Faso is a shock to the system. Just off of the landing strip is the bare hulk of a plane that...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Day 3 - Of Chickens and Presidential Candidates</title>
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        <published>2009-09-25T17:05:02-04:00</published>
        <updated>2009-09-25T17:06:25-04:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Eric Munoz</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Africa" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Agriculture" />
        
        


    <content type="html">The short flight from Accra to Kumasi takes just 45 minutes. Driving would have made the trip last between 4 and 5 hours. Given the...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Day 2 - Making Good Business</title>
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        <published>2009-09-23T16:27:36-04:00</published>
        <updated>2009-09-23T16:43:01-04:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Eric Munoz</name>
        </author>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Agriculture" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Good Governance" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Hunger" />
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    <content type="html">It’s bright and early, and we are bumping along a busy road on the outskirts of Accra on our way to the village of of...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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