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Some observers say the world will struggle to support its ballooning population. However the world abounds with waste and hypocrisy, according to Ruth Howard, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Jamaica. Seven billion. That’s the new buzz number. That’s how many people the United Nations Population Fund tells us are now on the planet Earth. 7 billion! …

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Some observers say the world will struggle to support its ballooning population. However the world abounds with waste and hypocrisy, according to Ruth Howard, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Jamaica. Seven billion. That’s the new buzz number. That’s how many people the United Nations Population Fund tells us are now on the planet Earth. 7 billion! …

"There are 7 billion mouths to be fed. What will we give?" Read More »

Famine refers to a sudden scarcity of food that can result in mass mortality from starvation, but Abdur Rafay Usmani, 21, a Correspondent from Karachi in Pakistan, looks at political and other pressures behind the tragedy. For a majority of our history, we used to think of famines as an ‘act of God’, outside the …

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