Water shortage in the Urmia Lake

Water level of the National Park of the Urmia Lake has been decreased by 43 centimeters compared with that of past year,” said the managing director of Environment Protection of the province West Azerbaijan. … more>>

UN food body ’should be scrapped’

An African leader has dismissed the UN’s food agency as a “waste of money” and called for it to be scrapped.
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal spoke out days after the UN announced an emergency plan to bring soaring world food prices under control.
Mr Wade said the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) was itself largely [...]

Kazakh Inflation Leaps on Food Prices

Kazakh inflation accelerated in April to an annual 19.1 percent, the highest rate since March 2000, as food prices increased.
April inflation in the Central Asian country rose 0.4 percentage points from a month earlier. Consumer prices rose 0.9 percent in the month, the State Statistics Agency said Sunday in an e-mailed statement.
Kazakhstan, the biggest energy [...]