Full Coverage: Alimentos
June 2008
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06/26/2008
Corruption is a fundamental cause and catalyst of the global water crisis, which currently threatens the lives of billions of people around the world, says a new report from a global coalition against corruption.
Read moreFrom: Transparency International Related: [Food] [Poverty] [Water/Sanitation] [Climate Change] [Conservation] [Disease/treatment] [Corruption & Transparency] [Governance] Image: Buying water in Iraq. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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06/24/2008
Typhoon Fengshen, which hit the Philippines this weekend and is now moving towards China, has killed 244 people, left hundreds missing, and made thousands homeless in the island nation.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Philippines] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Shelter & Housing] |
06/24/2008
Japan should take a global leadership role and act to stem the food crisis by re-exporting its 1.5 million tons of surplus rice -- at reasonable prices -- say a trio of international policy experts.
Read moreFrom: Center for Global Development Related: [Japan] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [International Cooperation] [Trade] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Geopolitics] |
06/18/2008
The G-8 foreign ministers, meeting next week, must deal decisively with the humanitarian toll that rising food prices and reduced foreign aid are taking on Africa, said a panel of leaders focused on African progress.
Read moreRelated: [Africa] [Development] [Aid] [Food] [International Cooperation] [MDGs] [Poverty] [Geopolitics] Image: Africa and the G8 © OneWorld US
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06/14/2008
Nearly 3,000 Americans have signed a petition by an international aid group urging the G-8 finance ministers, meeting this weekend, to cancel Haiti's "illegitimate" billion dollar debt as Haitians struggle to endure sky-rocketing prices of food and fuel.
Read moreFrom: Jubilee USA Network Related: [Haiti] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
06/14/2008
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (OneWorld) - Millions of people across the world are more likely to face hunger and starvation due to disruption in aid deliveries caused by the rising prices of food, UN officials said this week.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Poverty] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Civil Society] |
06/13/2008
As food prices and hunger continue to rise worldwide, small farmers in Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico are suggesting solutions quite different than the free trade policies endorsed at a recent UN food summit in Rome.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Mexico] [Guatemala] [Brazil] [Agriculture] [Food] [Capacity Building] [Consumption] [Conservation] |
06/09/2008
Single mother Judith Alexandre and other Haitian families are hard hit by raised food prices, but an international relief organization is working diligently to provide for those who have no other option but to skip meals.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam America Related: [Haiti] [Aid] [Food] [Poverty] [Trade] |
06/06/2008
As the UN summit on the global hunger crisis comes to a close today, advocacy groups are demanding greater attention be afforded small-scale and women farmers.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Agriculture] [Aid] [Food] [International Cooperation] [Labor] [Poverty] [Indigenous Rights] Image: A North Korean farmer. © Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
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06/05/2008
BEIJING, Jun 4 (IPS) - Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [China] [Agriculture] [Food] [International Cooperation] [Land] [Population] [Poverty] [Capacity Building] [Trade] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Geopolitics] |
06/04/2008
Government-run agricultural banks could be the key to combating the global food crisis by giving poor farmers access to high-yield seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale irrigation to increase crop yields, writes development expert Jeffrey Sachs.
Read moreFrom: Project Syndicate Related: [Agriculture] [Food] [Intermediate Technology] [Poverty] Image: Kenyan farmers. © International Development Research Centre
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06/04/2008
Nepalese villagers return to their homes after a decade of war only to battle the familiar enemies of hunger and malnutrition.
Read moreFrom: International Rescue Committee Related: [Nepal] [Agriculture] [Food] [Poverty] [Conflict] |
06/04/2008
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 3 (OneWorld) - As world leaders meet in Rome to discuss the current global food crisis, calls are growing for immediate and practical actions to address the plight of millions of poor facing hunger and starvation across the world.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Agriculture] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [International Cooperation] [Poverty] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Geopolitics] Image: Lunchtime at a rural school in Nepal. © Naresh Newar / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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06/03/2008
World leaders will seek solutions to the current crisis at the world food security conference starting June 3 in Rome. India will call attention to faulty policies and diversion of agricultural land for biofuels as its main causes, and not because Indians and Chinese are eating more.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Food] [International Cooperation] [United Nations] |
06/02/2008
Burger King agreed last week to raise the wages of Florida tomato farmers following a near year of campaigning by the the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam America Related: [United States] [Agriculture] [Food] [Labor] [Corporations] [Activism] |
06/02/2008
Farmers in Myanmar’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta are racing against the clock to grow rice as paddy fields remain flooded with salt water and with no livestock to plough. Once called ‘the rice bowl of Asia’, the region relies heavily on its June harvest to meet its domestic and export needs.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
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