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World Food Crisis

WFP to launch major response to assist Yemenis affected by high food prices

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching an emergency response operation to provide food to poor Yemeni households struggling to survive the global food crisis. The decision follows a recent WFP food...

Gambia calls for training in modern agricultural methods for farmers

27-Sep-2008

The food crisis was predictable because the international community over the last decade has neglected agriculture in the developing countries. According to Gambia's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Omar Touray, in...

World leaders pledge action on food crisis, climate change

United Nations (PTI): Leaders from around the world have voiced support to the proposals put forward by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to address global food crisis and climate change, two of today's most...

'Fiji affected by rise in global food prices'

Update: 1:49PM The people of Fiji have been affected by the shocks transmitted to our small nation with the dramatic escalation in global food prices, energy price rises, and the downturn in the global economy. Interim...

Bangladesh proposes Global Food Bank to guard against food crisis

The cost of food insecurity is not only deprivation, but also political instability. That is what the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, told the UN General Assembly. He said the current food crisis has...

Food crisis threatens to derail world's promise to the poor

While Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in New York trying to galvanise leaders into achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the world is in the grip of a food crisis which threatens to derail progress towards all...

WFP to launch major response to assist Yemenis affected by high food prices (Local)

SANA'A, Sept 23- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching an emergency response operation to provide food to poor Yemeni households struggling to survive the global food crisis. The decision follows a...

Amid Finance Crisis, UN Aid Summit Raises $16 Billion

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Poor and wealthy countries are economically linked, said world leaders Despite a massive financial crisis afflicting rich countries, a one-day UN development conference...

Egypt economists anxious about US bailout plan

CAIRO: It is often said that when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Now, the US has caught pneumonia and the rest of the world is aching. As major US financial institutions declare bankruptcy — the...

International experts converge on Montreal to discuss global food crisis

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - Experts in agriculture, nutrition and food are gathered at McGill University in Montreal to discuss the global food crisis facing the world. The conference officially kicked off today...