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20-11-2009
The three-day UN summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome earlier this week. The host country has lamented that the high profile summit failed to produce either measurable targets or specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.
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17-11-2009
UN chief lays out steps to save billions from hunger at the inaugural ceremony of the World Summit on Food Security in Rome. Leaders are drawing up comprehensive measures to combat hunger that is now gravely exacerbated by climate change and population growth.
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16-11-2009
Two new reports have concluded that it is possible to ensure food security, if right kinds of policies are pursued. These reports by FAO and International Food Policy Research Institute document many success stories across the globe.
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Image: A little bit of initiative and sound policies will ensure everyone has access to food/ Photo credit: IRIN
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15-11-2009
In view of global food insecurity, use of biotechnology and innovations in agriculture can improve yields and provide relief to the farmers, say experts. At a workshop in India’s capital, the need for a new Green Revolution has been strongly recommended.
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Image: K.V. Thomas, India's minister of state for agriculture/ Photo credit: Anna Nath/ OWSA
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14-11-2009
The world is going through its worst ever food crisis with over a billion people going hungry. The global economic crisis is only aggravating this crisis, says Dr Gavin Lindsay Wall, FAO India Representative. In an interview with OneWorld South Asia, he talks of the concrete steps needed to be taken to eradicate poverty and hunger.
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Image: Dr Gavin Lindsay Wall/ Photo credit: FAO
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13-11-2009
Ahead of World Summit on Food Security, international companies, the Italian city of Milan's administration and UN food agency met to discuss the issue. The FAO director-general emphasised on the need for private investments in primary agriculture and other services such as storage and processing.
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Image: FAO Director General Jacques Diouf delivers a speech during the FAO private sector forum in Milan/ Photo credit: FAO
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12-11-2009
The Food and Agriculture Organisation yesterday called for a day-long global hunger strike ahead of next week’s World Summit on Food Security. This has been done to draw attention towards the planet’s one billion people facing starvation.
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Image: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf/ Photo credit: UN News
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11-11-2009
Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor African countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to soaring food prices. This was revealed in a new report released by FAO.
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Image: Grain prices in Mali are still far higher than before the food price crisis/ Photo credit: UN News
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29-10-2009
Soaring prices of food items in Pakistan are giving the poor a tough time. Corruption and mismanagement have made it further difficult to reach the benefits of subsidised food schemes of the government to the needy.
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Image: Razia and her family wonder where their next meal will come from/Photo credit: IRIN
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28-10-2009
Genetically modified techniques will help crops survive harsher climates, as populations grow and global warming worsens, says a report by Royal Society. Critics says that the report’s focus on GM crops ignores mounting evidence that this technology is destroying communities and making climate change worse.
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