Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis

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Global Food Crisis Raises Hunger Fears

Recently, the crisis on the world’s financial markets seemed the worst headache of the global economy. But now the threat of a food crisis is mounting with every passing day.
This crisis is much more vital for every human being, and it may become much more dangerous than financial cataclysms, because it may provoke a [...]

Calls for calm in markets as food crisis provokes drastic measures.

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With rice nearly three times more expensive than it was at the start of this year, drastic times have led to drastic measures.
Sam’s Club, a branch of retail giant Wal-Mart, has introduced rationing for the first time in the US since World War II: a limit of four 9-kilo bags per customer.
Some governments have suspended [...]

Food crisis could hit Canada, expert warns

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Sam’s Club rationing rice

In another sign the global food crisis is hitting North American consumers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it is limiting sales of some kinds of rice at many Sam’s Club warehouse-style stores in the United States due to “recent supply and demand trends.”
Sam’s Club customers can buy up to four bags of jasmine, basmati and other [...]

Nigeria: Rising Food Crisis And the World Bank

The current food crisis plaguing the world and particularly sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria is indeed an irony considering the huge agricultural potentials in these countries.
The World Bank has expressed concern over the rising food crisis and urged the developed nations to raise $500 million to assist the World Food Programme, WFP, to meet emergency needs [...]

ALBA Countries Respond to Global Food Crisis

The signing of a regional agreement on food sovereignty and security is the response by the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) to the current food crisis, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during the extraordinary summit of the regional integration bloc, held in Caracas.
The agreement was signed by Presidents Hugo Chavez, of [...]

Afghans hit hard by rising food prices

 Already one of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan has been hit hard by the rising price of food and while some Afghans have taken to the streets to protest most wonder how they will get by.
Largely reliant on imports of wheat and flour, Afghanistan has been particularly badly hit as Pakistan, faced with [...]

High prices force aid group to cut food help

World Vision, one of the largest humanitarian organizations, said it is cutting aid to 1.5 million of the 7.5 million poor it fed last year because of the growing food price crisis which has already sparked food riots around the world.
Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada, blamed the soaring cost of food and countries [...]

Climate change may stoke Africa

Climate change in Africa could leave 250 million more people short of water by 2020, spurring conflicts and threatening stability on the world’s poorest continent, said the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday.
Rajendra K Pachauri, chairperson of the United Nations panel of climate experts who shared the prize with former United States vice-president Al [...]