IPS Inter Press Service Feed Summary:
Rome, where the largest global food organisations – FAO, IFAD and WFP – are headquartered, is preparing for the World Summit on Food Security (Nov. 16-18). The situation couldn’t be more momentous. “The global food insecurity situation has worsened and continues to represent a serious threat for humanity,” says the summit’s website. According to the latest U.N. projections, the world population will rise from 6.8 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050 – a third more mouths to feed. Most population growth will occur in developing countries. High food prices in developing countries, a global economic crisis affecting jobs, deepening poverty, and more hungry people combine to paint a very bleak picture.
IPS Inter Press Service - Food Crisis
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (16.05.2012 05:40h): Adding Rice Farmers to the Rio+20 Agenda
The year 2011 was one of extremes for the small Sri Lankan village of Verugal. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (07.05.2012 13:42h): Vietnam's Climate Woes Ignite National Strategy
Vietnam is hailed as a development success story for lifting millions out of poverty and staying on track to meet all of its Millennium Development Goals MDGs by 2015. But the country's future progress is severely threatened by the impact of global climate change. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.05.2012 11:09h): Cashew Producers' Pain Is Intermediaries' Gain in Senegal
Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 09:56h): Tribal Farming Beats Climate Change
Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable farming in this rain-dependent hinterland of eastern Odisha state – mixed cropping. [
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Intra-African Trade or Global Integration (23.04.2012 13:04h): A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
Though the World Trade Organisation WTO has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (23.04.2012 05:04h): South Africa's Smallholders Lose Battle for Seed Security
In an almost ceremonial manner, Selinah Mncwango opens her big plastic bag and pulls out several smaller packets, each filled with different types of seeds: sorghum, bean, pumpkin, and maize. They are her pride, her wealth, the "pillar of my family," says the farmer from a village in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (16.04.2012 15:09h): Indonesian Farmers Burned in Biofuel Drive
Dreams of sending his children to quality schools have vanished for 40-year-old farmer Muslikin, as the father of three now struggles to repay the bank loan he took out to finance his jatropha plantation in 2006. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.04.2012 07:56h): Could Coffee Eliminate Borders?
A diverse blend of coffee is going to pervade the city of Milan in 2015. World producers will come together to show, exchange and market their coffee in a global alliance without geographical-based membership. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (17.03.2012 16:48h): ‘Green Morocco Plan' Fails to Confront Climate Change
An unprecedented cold spell that struck Morocco in February and continues to linger well into March has raised serious questions about the country's national agricultural development programme, which will fail to achieve its desired results if climate change continues to be mismanaged. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.03.2012 11:04h): U.N. Human Rights Council Exhorted to Defend Peasants' Rights
Decades after peasants' networks have advocated for a new legal instrument to protect the rights of small farmers to land, seeds, traditional agricultural knowledge and freedom to determine the prices of their production, the United Nations Human Rights Council UNHRC may decide to start drafting a declaration on peasants' rights next week. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.03.2012 23:00h): Drought in Sahel Affects Urban Cameroonians
Sala Aminata, a housewife from the Logone and Shari Division in Cameroon's Far North Region, looks at her six kids with apprehension as she tries to figure out how to feed them with her meagre salary. [
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DR CONGO (02.03.2012 23:00h): Farmers' Organisations Slam New Agriculture Law
Farmers' organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the country's new
Agriculture Law – enacted last December – could lead to many smallholder farmers losing their land. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.03.2012 23:00h): Rural Women Are Leading the Way - Will the World Follow - Part 2
The United Nations' 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women CSW opened Monday in New York, with the empowerment of rural women high on a list of priorities for this year. [
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Wanted (26.02.2012 02:13h): Climate-Smart Agriculture
As the links between food security and climate change become increasingly inextricable, the necessity for sustainable agriculture is now a universal concern. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.02.2012 00:13h): Greeks Discover the Politics of Poverty
According to European mainstream economists and politicians, the solution to the Greek debt crisis, and the only option for returning the country to a path of progress, is 'fiscal consolidation'. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (16.02.2012 10:29h): "A Catastrophic Year" as Hunger Crisis Looms over Sahel
Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel – the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south – have taken the unprecedented step of declaring emergencies as 12 million people in the region are threatened by
hunger. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (06.02.2012 08:22h): Senegalese Students Call for President to Step Down
The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master's student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term of office. [
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DEVELOPMENT-NIGER (06.02.2012 08:22h): Three Million Children Threatened by Hunger
Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra, in western Niger, as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere. A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger. [
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AFRICA (21.11.2011 16:48h): Change the Donors Climate
When donor-funded horticultural projects failed in Kalacha village at the edge of the Chalbi Desert in North Eastern Province, Kenya, the local pastoralist community proposed their own idea, which turned out to be the solution to their problems. [
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SOMALIA (17.11.2011 21:40h): Aid Dwindles, Disease Spreads
Doctors in Mogadishu are warning that famine victims in internally displaced camps have become vulnerable to contagious diseases like cholera and measles, as conditions here are ripe for an outbreak. This comes as internally displaced persons complain that relief aid to some camps has dwindled or stopped. [
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Q&A (14.11.2011 13:05h): "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification UNCCD , at its 10th Conference of the Parties COP10 in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.11.2011 09:37h): G20 Remiss in Tackling Food Security
Last Friday Benoit Miribel, President of Action Against Hunger, delivered a strong indictment of the outcome of the Group of 20 G20 summit in the south of France: "The G20 meeting in Cannes has been a missed opportunity." [
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PAKISTAN (11.11.2011 09:37h): Wanted: A Revolution For Girls
Sixteen-year-old Noor Bano believes nothing short of a revolution will convince the men in Malangabad – her remote village in the Khairpur district of the Sindh province, some 460 kilometres from the southern port city of Karachi – to treat women as equals. [
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GREECE (02.11.2011 12:09h): Austerity Measures Responsible For Athens' ‘New Poor'
Harsh austerity measures and a struggling economy have given birth to the ‘new poor' in Athens, a term used to describe those suffering the impacts of social exclusion and rapidly shrinking civic welfare institutions. [
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AFRICA (31.10.2011 16:05h): Regulating the Rush for Land
The adoption of international guidelines to regulate so-called land grabs has been pushed to next year after negotiators failed to agree on conditions for large-scale land investments and enforcement. [
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