Global IssuesDevelopment: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
Development: To Grab, Or To Invest
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
Q&A: 'If You Find Yourself in a Minefield, Shout for Help'
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Putting on a white t-shirt or wearing olive-green pants can be life-or-death decisions in the conflict zone in the steep Andes mountains in western Colombia where 14-year-old Andrés lives and attends eighth grade.
Trade: Kenya Faces Job Losses, Collapsing Sectors in Wake of Doha
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The consequences of the Doha Round of trade talks for larger developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa could include job losses and deindustrialisation if a new study forecasting how Kenya is set to be affected is anything to go by.
Development: Hunger Summit’s Failure Exposes Grim Reality
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
There are two main ways the flop of this week’s United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome - which has been snubbed by the world’s top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the eradication of hunger - is being read.
Agriculture: Exporting Afghanistan
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The 60 hectare stretch of farmland in north Kabul's Badam Bagh neighbourhood looks much like farmland all over this country. Colourful rows of neatly planted crops stretch out from a dusty road and up the gentle slope of an arid ridge.
U.S.: Nearly One in Six Citizens Went Hungry in 2008
Monday, November 16, 2009
As the World Food Security Summit got under way in Rome Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) disclosed that nearly one in six U.S. households went hungry at some time during 2008, the highest level since it began monitoring food security levels in 1995.
Development: Hunger Summit Passes Toothless Declaration
Monday, November 16, 2009
Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.
Development: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
Monday, November 16, 2009
World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
Development: Looking to the Past to Feed the Future
Saturday, November 14, 2009
As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.
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