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“I’m never going back to poverty,” says David Tibo, a farmer in southern Ethiopia who turned his biggest profit ever this year with the help of a WFP pilot programme. Known as “Purchase for Progress” the project helps poor farmers raise yields, improve quality and become competing players in local markets.

Tajikistan is one of the countries least responsible for causing climate change.
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This week, 4 million more people will go to bed hungry all over the world. Seven out of ten of them are women. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that the total number of hungry people worldwide now has topped 1 billion. Today, with high food prices and the global economic crisis, the world's poorest citizens can only afford a third as much staple food as they could three years ago.

Sarah Zipkin on a visit to a farm in Mississippi.

Palestinian farmers in the West Bank face numerous challenges, writes Michael Robin Bailey.

Mohammad, Nail and Khader are in a bind. Oxfam, the European Union and local Palestinian organisation the Economic and Social Development Center of Palestine (ESDC) are helping them. All three of these North Jordan Valley Palestinians are trying to make ends meet. They are trying to raise their families. They are trying to work their way out of poverty. They are trying to get away from dependence on scarce and unreliable day labouring work.