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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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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.06.2012 15:18h): Agriculture Key to Liberia's Youth Unemployment Challenge
With his gold chain, baseball cap, and baggy denim shorts, Junior Toe wears the uniform of Liberia's urban youth. Spend just a few minutes with the young man and it is evident that he possesses the street smarts to match the look. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (06.06.2012 22:09h): Family Planning and Subsistence Agriculture Key to Food Security
Papua New Guinea's high fertility rate is exerting pressure on land and
food production in a country where 80 percent of the population lives in rural communities. But the National Agricultural Research Institute NARI argues that traditions of subsistence
agriculture provide a firm foundation to build food security for a growing population. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (05.06.2012 09:25h): Climate Change 'Biggest Threat' to Food Security
When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank ADB does not mince its words. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.06.2012 12:36h): "Land Is Our Natural Ally, But Its Patience Is Not Eternal"
Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation ZNLD to be adopted at the upcoming Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, in Brazil. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.06.2012 17:08h): Climate Change Drives Exodus to Jakarta
Another month of plying his ‘becak' trishaw in the capital city and Sarjo will be coming back to this West Java district to harvest the rice ripening on his 1,400 sq m paddy. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.06.2012 06:50h): After War, Economic Crisis Hits South Sudan
The United Nations has warned that despite the austerity measures put in place by South Sudan to deal with its economic woes, humanitarian agencies will have to increase relief efforts in order to keep the country's poor alive as the financial situation worsens. [
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Q&A (31.05.2012 15:24h): Time for a More Sustainable Global Food System
It is vitally important that governments and civil society organisations start transitioning to a more sustainable global food system in order to achieve lasting development. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (31.05.2012 08:59h): Cultivating Food Security in Their Own Backyards
Misradi, a 58-year-old farmer from the Jelok neighborhood in Pacitan, East Java, some 524 kilometres east of Jakarta, has found a way to reduce his monthly expenses by 30 percent: instead of buying produce from the local market, he and his family now harvest most of their vegetables from their own yard. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (30.05.2012 16:06h): A Future with Food, or No Future at All
The upcoming Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development will not succeed if the crises of
hunger and malnutrition are not effectively addressed. The issues are so inextricably linked with sustainable development that they have to be part of the agenda, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation FAO for the upcoming Earth Summit that will take place in Rio de Janeiro from Jun. 20-22. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (26.05.2012 09:07h): Forests Dying in South Sudan Violence
South Sudan is losing its forests. And with no unified policy to deal with the situation the government is at odds, with one ministry saying that the loss of forests is a necessity for farming and another warning of the dire environmental consequences if this continues unchecked. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (25.05.2012 10:34h): Food Aid Taking Too Long to Reach Needy
Her neat, bright yellow headscarf matches the rest of her outfit, but contrasts with her weary expression. Sokona Soumounou sits a little apart from the crowd queueing for assistance from the World Food Programme in the southern Mali town of Ségou. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.05.2012 09:08h): Renaissance Rice Rises From the Debris
This April, a small rice paddy field in Minami Sanriku, destroyed by the massive earthquake and tsunami last year in Japan, provided one of its most fertile yields yet - bringing hope and joy to the devastated local community. [
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Food Crisis - INTER PRESS SERVICE (16.05.2012 09:40h): 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 17:42h): 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 15:09h): 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 13:56h): 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 17:04h): 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 09:04h): 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 19:09h): 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 11:56h): 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 20:48h): ‘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 15:04h): 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 (03.03.2012 04:00h): 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 (03.03.2012 04:00h): 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 (03.03.2012 04:00h): 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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