Category: Global Food Crisis

Children Abandoned On Roadsides

Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres

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New Global Crisis Looms

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Soaring food and energy prices, the global financial crisis, Greece's debt woes. One-off events? Not

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UN Declares Famine In Somalia

The UN officially declared famine in two southern Somalia regions Wednesday as the world slowly mobilised to save 12

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Global Effort Needed In Africa

Britain's aid secretary has urged the global community to help people in drought-hit east Africa avoid a "catastrophe". It comes

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GreenPeace Destroys GM Wheat

Greenpeace protesters have broken into a CSIRO experimental farm in Canberra to destroy a crop of genetically modified wheat. In

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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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Rudd Pledges Aid For Africans

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has announced Australia will contribute more than $11 million to help African drought victims. The

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Food Prices Surge As China Floods

ZHUJI, China, Jun (Reuters) – Torrential rain across southern and eastern China which has killed more than 100 people

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Millions To Be Gripped By Hunger

Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world's food system, warning that in a couple of decades,

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Arsenic Found In Fish In Taiwan

The New Taipei City Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation into allegations that arsenic-tainted fish are being distributed

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