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World Food Crisis

                   
bbc.co.uk: Kenyan boy helps pick maize (file photo) bbc.co.uk

U.N. Report Frames Biofuels for Rising Food Costs

wired.com
11 hrs ago 28 related
        

A new report from the United Nations lays much of the blame for rising fuel costs on biofuels, but the data in the report do not support that assertion. Biofuel production is just one factor among many and does not account for...

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Uganda: Country Takes Steps to Turn Bananas Into Cash Crop

allafrica.com
20 hrs ago 1 related
        

Farmers, scientists and policy makers from around the world, are meeting in Mombasa to formulate a ten-year strategy expected to unlock the potential of banana as the next commercial crop to alleviate poverty and generate wealth.

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Food crises could swing future UK elections, says thinktank

guardian.co.uk
yesterday 4 related
        

A food crisis is highly likely in the UK, with price and availability becoming issues that swing the outcome of future elections, according to a report from the thinktank Chatham House. The UK's food system is unable to cope...

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Raise farm production to end food crisis – Diouf

fao.org
yesterday
        

FAO Director-General testifies before Italian Parliament 17 September 2008, Rome - The way out of the global food crisis, which has plunged at least 75 million more humans into hunger and poverty, lies in increased agricultural...

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fao.org: FAO/Nhlanhla Dlamini fao.org

A winner

fao.org
yesterday
        

With food prices hitting record highs world wide, FAO is helping implement urgent measures to increase food production in the most affected countries. In Swaziland Input trade fairs enable poor farmers boost their crops.

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The Real Crisis in North Korea? Food

time.com
yesterday 1 related
        

North Koreans work on a field at the propaganda village of Gijungdong, in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas As the world frets over an apparent collapse of an agreement to end North Korea's nuclear weapons...

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Uganda: Chaos of High Food Prices and Global Financial Instruments

allafrica.com
yesterday
        

As pointed out in my last week's article on the crisis of global capitalism, the fundamental problem that faces the system is the imperative to maintain the 'value of money' of existing financial instruments that are held by...

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apn.co.nz: Finance Minister Michael Cullen. Photo / Mark Mitchell apn.co.nz

Credit crunch, oil, food prices to blame for blowout - Cullen

apn.co.nz
06-Oct-2008 19 related
        

Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen has admitted the international credit crisis overtook "what we thought we knew", in revealing the Government would run a massive account deficit for the next five years. Opening up the books...

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10. Another inconvenient truth

iht.com
05-Oct-2008
        

At last, many of the world's political leaders have begun to realize that diverting land and food crops to produce biofuels leads to higher food prices. But an equally important consequence of this policy folly is being largely...

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atimes.com: Asia Time Online - Daily News atimes.com

In North Korea, a port with no joy

atimes.com
03-Oct-2008
        

It was a happier day in North Korea when former US president Jimmy Carter posed for photographs with Kim Il-sung in 1994 atop a West Sea dam - one of the Hermit Nation's proudest achievements. But today, as Donald Kirk reports,...

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