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 …
DRAVI KANTHG Geneva, 18 September As the world's absolute hunger threshold (or absolute poverty of less than $1.25 a day) rose to 923 million last year due to rising food prices, India accounted for a lion's share of over 231 million, according to the latest figures released by the United …
Lesser grains: Can millet save the hungry millions? BY VIKRAM DOCTOR A FEW months back when the food crisis was big news and there was much agonising about inadequate supplies of rice, wheat and corn, I remember thinking, well what about eating millet instead? It
Food riots as Indian floods destroy 250,000 homes PATNA, India (Reuters) - Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person …
George Monbiot The world's hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations. In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a …
During his annual whirlwind tour of Clinton Foundation humanitarian projects in Africa, which ended Monday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton sat down with National Geographic News's David Braun in Kigali, Rwanda, for a conversation on how African leaders can unite to fight the energy, climate, and food crises and how …
V. Jayanth Calls for global partnership to save the poor; "Act immediately to boost agricultural output' CHENNAI: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the "double jeopardy' of high food and fuel prices threatened to undermine much of the progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Critical challenges …
West Asian, North African Countries Turning To Expensive Schemes For Maintaining Food Supply Andrew Martin Cairo: Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant …
We need to boost agricultural productivity on the size and scale that we have achieved in industry and services THE fundamental malaise behind the current global food crisis is that, the world over, the yield of agricultural crops has been nearly flat for over a decade. (See the accompanying table.) …
Patrick Wintour and Patrick Barkham As the food crisis began to bite, the rumblings of discontent grew louder. Finally, after a day of discussing food shortages and soaring prices, the famished stomachs of the G8 leaders could bear it no longer. The most powerful bellies in the world were compelled …
NEW DELHI: The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has hoped that the ongoing G8 Summit in Japan would address the issue of biofuel policies, including subsidy that was contributing to the rising food prices, which could push an additional 100 million people into poverty. Talking to journalists here on …
Allaying fears of a high foodgrain inflation due to global problems, Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen on Thursday said India is insulated against any such crisis, at least in the near future. "Foodgrain inflation in India is under control... In the last three years, our foodgrain production has increased by …
Author and environmentalist Lester R. Brown tells Nandini Nairour civilisation is at risk Run off Lester Brown (bottom) warns against melting icebergs He might bring doom's day prophecies with him. But he offers solutions as well. Environmentalist Lester R. Brown was in the Capital's Taj Mahal hotel recently for the …
During the last American food-and-gas-price crisis, in the 1970s, one of my colleagues on the Berkeley student newspaper told me that he and his semi-communal housemates had taken a vote. They'd calculated they could afford meat or coffee. They chose coffee. The decision was slightly less effete than it sounds …
Washington: The World Bank on Tuesday put the blame for rising food prices in South Asia on export controls by India and others. The US also criticized New Delhi's handling of the crisis, stating the trade bans have rattled international markets. Surging food prices have become a serious concern in …
On 5 June humankind celebrated World Environment Day. But underlining the merrymaking were issues of grave environmental concern. Which are going to challenge our future, specially food shortage, poverty and environment degradation. The Green Revolution in agriculture finds itself trumped by the Green Evolution because of changing climatic developments. Years …
Food is the first among the hierarchical needs of a human being and this is likely to be the worst sufferer under conditions of global warming and sea level rise Prof M.S. Swaminathan Food security is a major concern in an era of climate change. Adverse changes in precipitation, temperature …
MNCs Dealing In Seeds, Foodgrains, Fertilizers Flourish Leaders from across the world are gathered in Rome for the World Food Summit as people from their countries grapple with the food crisis marked by escalating food prices and shortages. As they discuss the situation, they may find it interesting to have …
