Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least 335 lives and affecting an estimated 413 000 people. During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast …
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 31: Worried about the availability of essential commodities to the poor, Union minister of state for human resource development D. Purandareswari expressed her concerns regarding the looming food crisis in the country.
Gavin Wall Hunger is not only due to a lack of production; it is also a result of human-made policy choices. Efforts to reduce hunger will require a review of the way society is organised, its economic and social policies, the functioning of institutions and the allocation of resources. WITH …
Lester R Brown As the number of hungry people rise, so too has the number of failing states If China can no longer grow enough wheat and rice to feed its 1.3 billion people and goes shopping for massive quantities of grain, global food costs will rise dramatically AS the …
Washington: The number of Americans who lived in households that lacked consistent access to adequate food soared last year, to 49 million, the highest since the government began tracking what it calls
He Changchui The Third World Summit on Food Security will be held next week in Rome -- from November 16 to 18 NEVER IN THE history of mankind have so many people been so hungry. Despite rapid development, modern technology and burgeoning international trade, today an estimated 1.02 billion people …
The media will have to serve as sources of early warning in relation to the emerging food crisis. A major trigger for the Green Revolution, which was a term coined by Dr. William Gaud of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1968 to mark a significant increase in crop production …
Oct. 28: A severe food crisis looms large over the state with the government deciding to declare a crop holiday for 75 per cent irrigable area in the Godavari delta in the forthcoming Rabi season. The delta, with over 10 lakh acres in East and West Godavari districts and considered …
Subir Roy / New Delhi October 28, 2009, 0:37 IST Pulses getting dangerously close to Rs 100 per kilo, potatoes in West Bengal (a traditional exporter) crossing Rs 20 a kilo, make real the food price inflation that statisticians
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country
Fr. Cedric Prakash Arecent visit by Supreme Court-appointed Justice Wadhwa Committee to Gujarat highlighted the state of food insecurity among the poor and marginalized of this
Dealing with the prospect of food shortages in the next 40 years is a bigger problem than climate change, Australian academic Julian Cribb said on Monday. An adjunct professor at University of Technology in Sydney, Mr. Cribbs outlined his concerns to the country
Satish Shile, Oct 12, DHNS, Talamari (Raichur district): Talamari and Kukatanur, flood-hit villages on the banks of the River Tungabhadra, are just five kilometres apart and are in two different states. But in terms of flood relief works carried out by the respective governments (Talamari is in Karnataka, while Kukatanur …
Jacques Diouf Riding on the momentum generated by the recent food crisis to focus on longer term challenges, some 300 top international experts will meet at FAO in Rome on October 12 and 13 to figure out how to make sure we have enough to eat 40 years from now. …
United Nations: With over 1 billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to
Sept. 23: The deficient rainfall has turned 50 lakh acres of fertile fields in the state into brownish barren swathes of land. With the southwest monsoon coming to a close by the month-end, there is no relief possible now and food grain production is likely to be just half of …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has said that the implementation of the proposed National Food Security Act, without any modifications will turn out to be detrimental for a food deficit state like Kerala. He was speaking at the inauguration of the national seminar on the proposed National Food Security …
