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020 8293 6197
020 8293 6190
Out of office:
079 8332 6556
075 2544 3068
07736 470 267
The curious line stretched across the wall of a village house, deep in the Sindh province of southern Pakistan. It was high—taller than my five feet and eight inches—and the village elders kept pointing at it as we stood in an otherwise spotless community outpost. They kept telling me about the progress they had made with the help of the international community in the year since the devastating floods of 2010.
As the media report that the world’s population is expected to top 7 billion by the end of October, the subject of global hunger is bound to arise, as is a commonly held assumption about global hunger: “There’s so much hunger because the world is overpopulated.”
Philip James is Action Against Hunger’s Emergency Nutrition Coordinator, a job which regularly takes him to the world’s humanitarian hotspots. Follow Philip’s live updates as he reports from the border area in Liberia, where an estimated 20,000 refugees are staying in view of the tense situation in Ivory Coast.
Of swiss/dutch nationality, Caroline Heuberger grew up in several different countries in Europe. After her BSc in Public Health Nutrition and a Master’s in Dietetics, Caroline has spent the last four years working as a dietitian in the UK. As nutrition programme manager for ACF-UK in Chad, she is in charge of coordinating the supplementary feeding programme in Abéché as well as evaluating its performance. Follow Caroline's blog...
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