Last Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 11:19
UN chief Ban Ki-moon will prod world leaders to step up the fight against global warming and hunger when he attends the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation summit in Rome next week, a spokesperson said.
Last Updated: Monday, October 26, 2009, 22:55
Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, the UN World Food Program said on Monday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 20:45
A grave food crisis stares Andhra Pradesh -- known as the country`s rice bowl -- as its farmers suffered a double blow this Kharif season.
Last Updated: Monday, September 21, 2009, 08:53
Peter Carey once wrote a story situated in a nameless dystopia apparently far in the future where groups clash over resources.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:51
The concluding years of this decade will be remembered in history as those of suffering and awakening.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 00:24
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 14:54
The country has sufficient food grain stocks to feed the Public Distribution System that will ensure no poor person goes hungry, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 21:59
Senior Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi on Wednesday accused Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar of misrepresenting facts on availability of sugar in the country.
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