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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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AFRICA (16.07.2010 01:00h): "Everything but Arms Deal Doesn't Benefit Enough People"
The Everything but Arms trade initiative, which provides preferential treatment to poor countries, benefits only a limited range of people in the target populations. It should also be expanded to more countries, civil society organisations say. [
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INDIA (21.06.2010 11:19h): Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’
KARNATAKA, India, June 18 (IPS/IFEJ) - Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he has also turned banker – banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains. [
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INDIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor'
Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he has also turned banker – banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains. [
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ASIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Green Revolution Has Little to Offer New Hungry Mouths
As it took root in the rice fields across Asia, it was hailed as the solution to the hunger afflicting millions of people in the region. But four decades on, the much vaunted Green Revolution appears to have reached its limits, unable to meet new demands, to feed new mouths. [
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INDONESIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Natural Fertiliser from Microbes Boosts Crop Yields
Ten years after an Indonesian agriculturist discovered microbes capable of producing natural fertilisers, farmers attest that they have boosted agricultural production. [
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AFRICA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Small Scale Farmers Vulnerable to New Wheat Fungus
Smallholder wheat farmers are at risk as new mutations of a wheat-killing fungus have recently been discovered. [
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MALAYSIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers
A increasing number of natives in Sarawak state in north Borneo are alarmed at encroaching forest and oil palm plantations, which are taking over their native customary land and destroying their traditional lifestyles and biodiversity. [
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BURMA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Two Years after Nargis, Life Is Far from Normal
Kyaw Moe is just in his 30s, but he is already on his second shot at life – just like the rest of the residents of Thakan Ngu, a tiny Burmese village in this township of Bogalay. [
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KENYA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Successful Weather Prediction Uses Old and New
In the wake of ever-changing climatic conditions, a study in western Kenya has discovered that combining traditional methods of weather prediction with meteorological forecasting is the best way of obtaining more accurate forecast data. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (19.06.2010 10:27h): If Only Just a Billion Were Hungry
The bad news is that 1.02 billion people are going hungry in today's world of plentiful supplies. The even worse news is that this figure only tells part of the global food insecurity story. [
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ROMANIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Slow Food - Opportunity for Small Farmers
Mari Cat, an economist by profession, thinks nothing of selling meat, bread and apple juice at a stall in the ‘Slow Food' market in this central Romanian town. [
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EAST AFRICA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Green Agriculture Growing in Leaps and Bounds
Organic agriculture using natural farming methods rather than fertilisers and pesticides has made significant gains in African countries – not just among farmers but among consumers too. [
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AFRICA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Foreign Investors Safeguarded From Obligations to Locals
Parts of the Tana Delta on Kenya's northern coastline are being leased to foreigners to grow food and bio-fuels for export. Civil society organisations are worried about such deals as they are done without public consultation while safeguarding investors from requirements that could benefit local communities, such as technology transfer. [
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AFRICA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Land Grabs Continue as Elites Resist Regulation
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever. [
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UGANDA (19.06.2010 10:27h): NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says U.N.
Non-governmental organisations NGOs are guilty of judging a palm oil project in Uganda on innuendo rather than its merits, the United Nations poverty agency supporting the controversial scheme said, as the project starts to bear fruit for smallholder farmers. [
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DEVELOPMENT (19.06.2010 10:27h): More Food, Except For That Billion Or So
While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed. [
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TANZANIA (19.06.2010 10:27h): Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. [
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ASIA (06.06.2010 00:17h): Green Revolution Has Little to Offer New Hungry Mouths
BANGKOK, June 5 (IPS) - As it took root in the rice fields across Asia, it was hailed as the solution to the hunger afflicting millions of people in the region. But four decades on, the much vaunted Green Revolution appears to have reached its limits, unable to meet new demands, to feed new mouths. [
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INDONESIA (03.06.2010 01:42h): Natural Fertiliser from Microbes Boosts Crop Yields
BOGOR, Indonesia, June 1 (IPS) - Ten years after an Indonesian agriculturist discovered microbes capable of producing natural fertilisers, farmers attest that they have boosted agricultural production. [
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AFRICA (31.05.2010 08:36h): Small Scale Farmers Vulnerable to New Wheat Fungus
ADDIS ABABA, May 29 (IPS) - Smallholder wheat farmers are at risk as new mutations of a wheat-killing fungus have recently been discovered. [
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MALAYSIA (22.05.2010 22:55h): Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers
PENANG, Malaysia, May 21 (IPS) - A increasing number of natives in Sarawak state in north Borneo are alarmed at encroaching forest and oil palm plantations, which are taking over their native customary land and destroying their traditional lifestyles and biodiversity. [
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BURMA (01.05.2010 10:23h): Two Years after Nargis, Life Is Far from Normal
BOGALAY, Burma, Apr 30 (IPS) - Kyaw Moe is just in his 30s, but he is already on his second shot at life – just like the rest of the residents of Thakan Ngu, a tiny Burmese village in this township of Bogalay. [
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KENYA (01.05.2010 10:23h): Successful Weather Prediction Uses Old and New
NAIROBI, Apr 29 (IPS) - In the wake of ever-changing climatic conditions, a study in western Kenya has discovered that combining traditional methods of weather prediction with meteorological forecasting is the best way of obtaining more accurate forecast data. [
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IPS Inter Press Service - Food Crisis (01.05.2010 10:23h): If Only Just a Billion Were Hungry
ROME, Apr 29 (IPS) - The bad news is that 1.02 billion people are going hungry in today's world of plentiful supplies. The even worse news is that this figure only tells part of the global food insecurity story. [
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ROMANIA (28.04.2010 21:29h): Slow Food - Opportunity for Small Farmers
BRASOV, Apr 27 (IPS) - Mari Cat, an economist by profession, thinks nothing of selling meat, bread and apple juice at a stall in the ‘Slow Food’ market in this central Romanian town. [
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