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Tag: World Food Crisis
World’s deltas subsiding, says study
Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of
Eighteen Women And Children Die In Pakistan Food Stampede
Eighteen women and children have died after stampeding a center for for aid in Pakistan.
Mexico Now Enduring Worst Drought in Years
MEXICO CITY - Mexico is enduring its worst drought in six decades. Crops are drying up in the fields
Drought-hit farmers in India sell wives to pay debts
Drought-hit farmers in northern India are resorting to selling their wives to repay debts to local loan sharks, activists
Starvation in Guatemala Due to Bad Weather, and Economy
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of emergency" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and
Birth control, tech needed to head off crunch
Birth control and new technologies -- not lifestyle change alone -- may be needed to head off a combined
Drought, debt lead to rapid increase in Indian farmers’ suicides
HYDERABAD, India — Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India
Banana diseases threaten African crop
Two banana diseases spreading in Africa could hurt food supply for 30 million people on the continent who largely
Despair as drought cripples ‘Australia’s Mississippi’
Farmer Mazzareno Bisogni fights back tears as he stands among the remains of trees he planted 35 years ago,
Indian drought threatens rice, sugar output
In vast parched swathes of rural India, farmers are eyeing with despair their bone-dry fields as they face the