Think before you carve
Can I apologise right now if the content of this blog dampens your Christmas spirit? It is about something many of us believe we should do, but very few of us actually get round to doing. It was...
View ArticleNepal to benefit from Feed the Future Initiative
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce that Nepal has been selected as one of 20 focus countries for President Obama’s $3.5 Billion Feed the Future initiative. Feed the Future is a comprehensive...
View ArticleGM crop use makes minor pests major problem
Growing cotton that has been genetically modified to poison its main pest can lead to a boom in the numbers of other insects, a ten-year study in northern China has found. In 1997, the Chinese...
View ArticleSalt killing crops, driving migration in storm-hit southern Bangladesh
Worsening sea water storm surges and overuse of irrigation have left fields, wells and ponds in parts of southern Bangladesh too salty to grow crops, leading to a growing exodus of farmers from the...
View ArticleClimate appeal by Pacific islands
Pacific island nations have compared global warming to an invading army in a plea for the UN Security Council to break the stalemate in negotiations over a legally binding global climate treaty. The 11...
View ArticleFood crisis in the Sahel: French aid
The food and nutrition situation is extremely critical in several countries in the Sahelian strip, particularly in Niger (7.8 million people affected) and in Chad (2 million vulnerable people). The...
View ArticleTackling land degradation crucial for human well-being, UN officials stress
United Nations officials today stressed the need to look after the world’s drylands, which are home to more than one billion poor people and where efforts to achieve key development targets face...
View ArticleBolivia Reinforces Food Security Program
The creation of a National Food Security Committee (Consa) will improve local production capacities, the state-run newspaper Cambio reported Monday. According to the daily, Consa will be charged with...
View ArticleClimate change threatens food supply
Climate change and extreme weather events pose a grave challenge to the country’s food supply, agricultural researchers have warned. Gu Lianhong, a senior researcher with Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
View ArticleRight to food threatened globally by runaway prices in 10 years
The country must brace for a huge problem– a food crisis — in 10 years. This dire warning was raised by Chairwoman Leila M. de Lima of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in a speech delivered during...
View ArticleCentral Vietnam dries up
The outlines of the MARD report were briefed on July 1. Members of a MARD mission just returned from Vietnam’s central region confirmed that nearly 200,000 hectares of rice and vegetables are...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Food Shortages to Worsen in Drought-Prone Areas
The southern parts of the country are expected to suffer acute grain shortages, with more people expected to rely on food aid. The United States-funded Famine Early Warning System (Fewsnet) reported...
View ArticleBiologist Warns Of Danger From Rising Sea Levels
In his new book, Flooded Earth, Peter D. Ward argues that even if humans stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the oceans will still rise up to 3 feet by 2050, wreaking havoc on many coastal...
View ArticleNiger Crisis: Irish Red Cross undertakes biggest food distribution operation...
The Irish Red Cross will be undertaking the biggest food distribution operation in its 70 year history in the coming weeks, delivering food to 115,000 people in Niger which faces one of its worst food...
View ArticleFears of new food crisis as prices soar – FT.com
The bill for global food imports will top $1,000bn this year for the second time ever, putting the world “dangerously close” to a new food crisis, the United Nations said. The warning by the UN’s Food...
View ArticleThe coming hunger: Record food prices put world ‘in danger’, says UN
Food riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet’s poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high...
View ArticleWorld is ‘one poor harvest’ from chaos, new book warns
AFP – Like many environmentalists, Lester Brown is worried. In his new book “World on the Edge,” released this week, Brown says mankind has pushed civilization to the brink of collapse by bleeding...
View ArticleThe food crisis and too much meat
Today (1 June) Oxfam has published its hard-hitting report, ‘Growing a better future’. Oxfam’s research forecasts a food price rise of 70-90 percent by 2030 – and when the predicted effects of climate...
View ArticleGlobal food crisis: The challenge of changing diets
Demands for a more western diet in some emerging countries could have a more detrimental affect on global health and hunger than population growth Why will nearly one in seven people go to bed hungry...
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