{"id":57509,"date":"2017-02-21T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_sudan_famine_declared_as_100000_people_face_starvation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:34:23","slug":"south_sudan_famine_declared_as_100000_people_face_starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57509","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Aus) South Sudan famine declared as 100,000 people face starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot to declare a famine.<\/p>\n<p>If a population can&#8217;t find enough food it&#8217;s not strictly a famine. Nor is it famine if one third of the population is severely malnourished.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations&#8217; definition of famine is when three conditions coincide: at least 20 per cent of a population faces extreme food shortages, 30 per cent of people experience acute malnutrition, and at least two people per 10,000 die every day.<\/p>\n<p>This week both the UN and the World Food Program agreed with South Sudan&#8217;s decision to declare a state of famine in parts of the country&#8217;s south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-02-21\/famine-is-declared-in-war-torn-south-sudan\/8290950\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot to declare a famine. If a population can&#8217;t find enough food it&#8217;s not strictly a famine. Nor is it famine if one third of the population is severely malnourished. The United Nations&#8217; definition of famine is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57509\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,664,202,175,143,100,168,144,177,151,88,346,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-sudan","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}