Tag: World Food Crisis

Half of India affected by extreme drought

Below normal monsoon rains have been responsible for the drought Nearly half of India's districts have been hit by

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India’s Food Security Crisis

The proposed introduction of the Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome and much needed step

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Britain Faces Food Crisis As Soil Vanishes

British farming soil could run out within 60 years, leading to a catastrophic food crisis and drastically higher prices

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China freeze to continue as power use restricted and food prices rise

BEIJING (AFP) – More regions of China faced power shortages, food prices rose and the government warned of crop

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World will need 70 percent more food by 2050

World food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be

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Kenya drought leaves 4 million needing food aid

Three failed rainy seasons have left up to four million Kenyans needing food handouts and trucked-in water as the

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Wheat Crop in Australia Cut 25% by Drought

Drought in Australia’s New South Wales, usually the nation’s second-largest wheat grower, has cut the state harvest by at

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Somalia faces worst food crisis in 18 years

ROME — Drought, conflict and displacement are causing the worst humanitarian crisis in war-torn Somalia in 18 years, the

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USDA calls most of California a drought disaster area

FRESNO, Calif.—The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared that 50 of California's 58 counties are natural disaster areas because

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Thai rice region under climate threat

Part of Thailand's main rice growing region is under severe economic and environmental threat from climate change which must

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