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.
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AFRICA (21.11.2011 21:48h): 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 (18.11.2011 02:40h): 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 18:05h): "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 14:37h): 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 14:37h): 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 16:09h): 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 20:05h): 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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AFRICA (21.10.2011 22:26h): Gov'ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest,Poorest Regions
For millennia,people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa,comprised mainly of drylands. Yet today,more than 13 million people there are starving because of political instability,poor government policies and failure to invest in the world's poorest people,say experts here in Changwon. [
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Q&A (21.10.2011 17:47h): 'Soil is Key to Global Warming,Food Security'
Luc Gnacadja,in his second three-year term as executive secretary,United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD ,is widely seen as delivering on his commitment to manage the world's drylands. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.10.2011 21:10h): Food Prices Set to Rise Further
Food price volatility featuring high prices is likely to continue and probably increase next year,making poor farmers even more vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity,the global report on food insecurity released Monday by the United Nations'three Rome-based food agencies predicts. [
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PAKISTAN (20.09.2011 19:16h): Flood Relief by Caste,Creed
With just the clothes on their backs,Moora Sanafdhano,68,and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari,saving themselves in the nick of time. [
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SOMALIA (08.09.2011 16:45h): Armed Militia Grab the Famine Business
Armed groups are withholding aid and preventing Somali famine refugees from leaving camps to ensure the continued supply of food by aid agencies that they are presently selling on the open market. [
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SOMALIA (05.09.2011 19:25h): Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims
Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen,an investigation has revealed. [
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IBSA (03.09.2011 10:45h): ‘Cash Grants Must Back Food Access'
Studies by the India-Brazil-South Africa IBSA Academic Forum on food security issues in the three countries suggest that providing food access works best when backed by cash transfers. [
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OP-ED (25.08.2011 12:57h): Expanding Deserts,Falling Water Tables and Toxins Driving People from Homes
People do not normally leave their homes,their families,and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount,we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines,but expanding deserts,falling water tables,and toxic waste and radiation are also forcing people from their homes. [
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KENYA (20.08.2011 19:23h): Lime Improves Maize Harvest
As the world's worst food security crisis continues across the Horn of Africa,including in Kenya,some smallholder farmers in the western part of the country are still feeding their families with last year's abundant harvest. [
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EAST AFRICA (27.07.2011 22:06h): ‘It's Not a Heartless Mother Leaving a Child Behind,Just One Who Wants to Survive'
On the road between the Kenyan and Somali border lie the dead bodies of children who have succumbed to the famine and the hardships of making the journey from their drought-stricken villages to Kenya. [
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Somalia to Dadaab (17.07.2011 06:49h): The Journey from Hell
The lorry sways slowly from side to side along a dirt track as it ambles towards its place of rest. The red straw bags,clothes and empty yellow water bottles tied to the rear end of the open cargo hold tower above the pensive faces peering over colourfully painted steel panels. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (14.06.2011 19:50h): Fresh Vegetables Endangering Health Again
The deadly epidemic of escherichia coli EHEC in Germany,that broke out in mid May,and which has killed 29 people so far,is the latest in a series of food and hygiene emergencies that have shaken European households for more than a decade. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2011 12:26h): Food Price Hike Worsens Poverty in Asia
An annual meeting of Asian finance ministers and central bank governors in Hanoi is set to address the fate of 64 million people in the region on the brink of extreme poverty. They are the worst affected by soaring food prices,which have hit record highs in the first two months of this year. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (12.03.2011 00:25h): Save Climate and Double Food Production With Eco-Farming
Eco-farming could double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change,according to a new U.N. report released Tuesday in Geneva. [
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EGYPT (27.01.2011 08:25h): Public Noose Tightens Around Mubarak
Demonstrations calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt continued for the second day in several Egyptian cities with police cracking down violently,a development that many analysts here say reflects the nervousness of the regime. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (23.01.2011 03:51h): Mexico Tempted to Shift From Tortillas to Ethanol
Farmers'protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate,which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol,or ethanol. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (19.01.2011 09:48h): More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
Mohammed Bouazizi,the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia,is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (19.01.2011 09:47h): More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
Mohammed Bouazizi,the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia,is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of. [
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