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U.N. Issues Dire Warnings about Global food, and water supplies
Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:35 PM EST
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization the worlds farmers must begin to move away from conventional intensive farming and begin the transition to what is known as conservation agriculture if they intend to produce enough food and cope with climate change.
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War, famine and death and four horsemen of the apocalypse
Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:27 AM EDT
Global analysis of malnutrition by the International Food Policy Research Institute suggests that nine of the 12 countries with the severest hunger were racked by civil war or violent conflict.
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Millions in Horn of Africa face food disaster
Seeded on Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:36 PM EDT (Mail & Guardian Online)
Nearly 15-million people in the Horn of Africa region are facing a humanitarian disaster unless donors urgently release funds to deliver supplies, aid agencies warned on Tuesday.
Corn as fuel has hurt world food supply
Seeded on Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:34 PM EDT (Newsday.com)
Rising food prices are a hardship here at home, but they're truly disastrous for many beyond our borders. The staggering 83 percent rise in food prices reported by the World Bank over the past three years hits developing nations hardest.
Myanmar's fouled water threatens health
Seeded on Tue May 27, 2008 2:39 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)
Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter drinks...
Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa
Seeded on Sat May 17, 2008 9:54 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The global food crisis has arrived at Safia Ali's hut. She cannot afford rice or wheat or powdered milk anymore. At the same time, a drought has decimated her family's herd of goats, turning their sole livelihood into a pile of bleached bones and papery skin.
Cyclone victims face 'long-term' food shortages
Seeded on Thu May 15, 2008 9:13 PM EDT (CNN)
Myanmar's rice-growing heartland has been devastated by Cyclone Nargis, threatening long-term food shortages for survivors, experts said Wednesday.
Honeybee Colony Collapse to Devastate Food Companies, Result in Food Scarcity
Seeded on Mon May 12, 2008 3:21 PM EDT ()
The ongoing phenomenon of mysterious honeybee deaths is starting to raise alarm in the food industry, which depends heavily on bees to pollinate many critical crops.
World food crisis hits home
Seeded on Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:25 AM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
As the world faces its first global food crisis since World War II, even American consumers are starting to fret.
World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger
Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:44 PM EDT
Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets.
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